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About the University Center
The University Center was completed in 1965. It has been remodeled numerous times to accommodate students' needs and desires. The University Center is part of West Campus and exists on land that was once the Petrikin's farm. The University Center actually sits where the Petrikin's home once existed.
Current Use
The University Center is home to various services, from the UNC Card Office to the Office of Student Engagement/Dean of Students. Retail services, such as Starbucks Coffee, Barnes and Noble bookstore and Wells Fargo Service Center offer on-campus convenience. The UC provides a place where students can take a break, grab a bite to eat, and email friends using the free wireless service. Career Services, Center for International Education, Student Activity offices, meeting rooms and a ballroom also reside in this facility.
Building Stats
- Original Architect: Perkins & Will, Robert F. Linstedt
- Renovation Architect: Bourne & Associates

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I couldn't think of keywords to search in the forums for my particular question, so sorry if this has already been covered extensively. If you know of threads, feel free to post them.
Currently, I'm working on docs on my ipad using quick office HD but there's no syncing whatsoever with dropbox or anything. I have to manually email myself the new doc. Is there an app or easier way to sync a saved doc with dropbox or something so that I can pull it up on my computer? Thanks guys.


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Rangers-Penguins in review
Thoughts: 1) This is not an excuse. Just a fact. The Pittsburgh Penguins are helmets and shoulder pads better than the rest of the East. They played almost the entire month of December with their JV on the ice and ran away and hid. They could play the entire second… Read More →


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Hey Chicks!
Today us Head Chicks are off to Horseshoe Resort to go over some final details for our amazing Sweats and Sass Fitness Retreat that is coming up October 26-28!
Wondering what the retreat is really all about? Throughout the weekend there will be:
· Yoga
· Bootcamp classes
· Zumba
· Healthy Eating Discussions
· Cocktail makeovers
· Sassy Dinner
· Guided Hikes
· FIT CHICKS Challenge
In all reality the question really should be more like, what wont we be doing? 🙂
We have jammed packed this weekend with so much awesomeness so that we can offer to you chicks the opportunity to try new things and learn about new ways to be healthy. As I always say, try it you might like it!
At FIT CHICKS we also talk a lot about Living La Vida FIT CHICK! This quote below really does encompass this which is why I wanted to share with all y'all!
So chicks if you want to know more about Living La Vida FIT CHICK and have some super fun times while doing it join us at our next Bootcamp sessions – they start October 1st or come on up North to Horseshoe and hang for a weekend where you are guaranteed to leave feeling inspired and excited about spreading some healthy love!
Amanda xo


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Newspapers disregard sport at their own peril, particularly in Australia, the most "sport mad" nation in the world.
This was the considered opinion of the respected journalist-editor and author Rohan Rivett, and he was prepared to compare reader news values in Australia against other nations.
In America, he said, crime came first, followed by sex and then sport. In Britain, the Fleet Street newspapers were expected to put sex first, followed by crime and sport. But in Australia, he believed the order was sport, then crime with sex last.
No matter that he was speaking 70 years ago as the editor of an afternoon newspaper in Adelaide – today there would be little argument that most Australians would place sport above the other two categories, and probably a few more of the "serious" ones.
Sport has been covered in the Herald since its birth in 1831, but not always with the prominence it got from 1977 when a redesign gave it a home of its own on the back of the second section of the paper. From next week, in the new weekday compact format, its stocks will go up even further when it moves to the back of the one-book production.
Today's page includes a Test cricket photograph produced from a glass negative. It was taken in Melbourne in 1937 by Herald photographer Herbert Fishwick who, tired of taking pictures of dots in the distance, had special lenses ground for a barrel-like extension on his camera. He shot from high in the stands to remove background clutter, and the results caused a sensation in other newspapers. His emulators, with their cannon-like lenses, have become a regular sight at all big sporting events. The marks on the photograph are his suggestion for the most effective crop for publication.
Herald sport photographers down the years have won international and national awards. At least two of the photographs have reached iconic status: Russell McPhedran's exclusive shot of a hooded terrorist during an attack on athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and John O'Gready's picture of mud-covered opponents, Norm Provan and Arthur Summons, coming together at the end of the 1963 rugby league grand final.


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|Car-truck collision shuts down I-30 traffic Wednesday
|Faith Huffman | News-Telegram News Editor
July 6, 2006 -- A two-mile stretch of Interstate 30 east of Sulphur Springs was narrowed to one lane in either direction for more than an hour following a collision between an 18-wheeler and a small car Wednesday afternoon.
According to state troopers, a 26-year-old Garland woman and a 33-year-old Garland man were traveling east on Interstate 30 around 1:45 p.m. Wednesday. They had just passed the FM 69 overpass when the Honda car the woman was driving had a blow out. As she began to take evasive action, switching lanes to get the car off the roadway onto the shoulder, the front of a truck-tractor struck the right rear of the car.
The right rear end of the car was crushed into the back seat, and the car was sent backward into the ditch between the south service road and the eastbound lane of I-30.
The 18-wheeler left the passing lane of I-30 and crossed the center median. The cab of the truck, occupied by an older couple out of Stuttgart, Ark., rested across both westbound lanes of Interstate 30, while the box trailer stretched across the center median.
Both occupants of the Honda were able to get out of the car on their own. Both were taken by ambulance to Hopkins County Memorial Hospital to be checked over. Neither appeared to have sustained serious injuries.
Neither the man or woman in the big rig appeared to be injured. Medics checked them at the scene but they declined to go to the hospital for further attention.
Traffic on both sides of the interstate was halted temporarily after the collision. Eastbound traffic backed up for about two miles for about 30 minutes while a wrecker worked to get the 18-wheeler out of the boggy median. Efforts were further hampered a sudden burst of rain, which severely limited visibility along I-30.
The truck and car were both towed away and both east and west lanes of I-30 reopened by about 3:15 p.m. Wednesday.
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You'd think that hybrids would be doomed. More buyers are opting for lower-priced compacts with less exotic, but still fuel-thrifty technology. But you'd be wrong: experts say we're going to gas-electric hybrid models more than ever.
The growth, however, won't be where most people would expect. The focus on the market for hybrids will move from small cars to the bigger, plusher, more expensive ones. J.D. Power and Associates says from a measly market share of 2.5% this year, hybrids and pure electrics will grow to 7.2% of the market in 2015.
Why? Because automakers are going to have to figure out a way to meet stricter government fuel standard demands -- and hybrids are pretty much the most reasonable way to go. Yes, the Toyota Prius will stay with us -- it's become an incredibly valuable brand -- but lots of hybrids will be bigger luxury barges.
Reason: The extra cost of a hybrid, which J.D. Power estimates at an average of $6,000, isn't as big of a consideration in luxury models, which comes with big price tags anyway. The larger, premium 2012 Buick LaCrosse will have standard a new, hybridized "eAssist" four-cylinder powertrain. At $30,820 to start, it's about $3,000 more than the 2011 base model that did not have eAssist and 2012 buyers can opt for a non-hybrid V-6 at no extra cost. That's a Buick Regal in the photo above, which also has eAssist.
"In order to meet (rising federal gas-mileage standards), the whole fleet will get some form of hybridization," says Rebecca Lindland, analyst at IHS Automotive. Future hybrids, however, probably will include more larger, luxury models where the extra cost is not as big a factor in the overall price as with smaller, cheaper models.
Chris Woodyard is an auto writer for USA TODAY who covers all aspects of motoring. He revels in the exhaust note of a Maserati and the sharp creases of a Cadillac CTS. Chris strives to live a Porsche life on a Scion budget. More about Chris


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News & Events
Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA)
Statement of
Theresa M. Mullin, Ph.D.
Assistant Commissioner for Planning
Food and Drug Administration
the Subcommittee on Health
House Committee on Energy and Commerce
April 17, 2007
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, I am Theresa Mullin, Assistant Commissioner for Planning at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency).
I am pleased to be here today, to talk about the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, or PDUFA. As the FDA Director of Planning, I've played a lead role in coordinating implementation of PDUFA III initiatives, and the on-going analysis of PDUFA performance and resource requirements. Most recently, I served as FDA's lead in the discussions with industry related to the reauthorization of PDUFA.
I'd like to begin by discussing FDA's success in implementing PDUFA and describe some challenges that we have tried to address in our recommendations for reauthorization. I will also summarize highlights of our proposal for PDUFA IV.
Before proceeding, however, I would like to emphasize the importance of timely reauthorization of this law. The Agency and the staff charged with implementing PDUFA III need to be confident that reauthorization will occur by the end of September.
FDA considers careful and timely review of the safety and effectiveness of new drug applications (NDAs) and biologics license applications (BLAs) to be a central part of FDA's mission to protect and promote the public health.
Before PDUFA, FDA's drug review process was not very predictable, and it was relatively slow. At the same time, regulators in other countries were able to review products faster. Access to new medicines for U.S. patients lagged behind. In 1992 Congress enacted PDUFA, which provided the added funds through user fees that enabled FDA to hire additional reviewers and support staff and upgrade its information technology systems. At the same time, FDA committed to complete reviews in a predictable timeframe. These changes enabled FDA to speed the application review process for new drugs and biologics without compromising FDA's high standards for approval. PDUFA has since been reauthorized twice. In the most recent reauthorization, Congress directed FDA to consult with key stakeholders in developing recommendations for PDUFA reauthorization. This includes the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, as well as appropriate scientific and academic experts, health care professionals, patient representatives, consumer advocacy groups, and the regulated industry. We have complied with these requirements in preparing our PDUFA IV proposal.
PDUFA has produced significant benefits for public health, including providing the public faster access to over 1200 new drugs and biologics since enactment in 1992. During the PDUFA era, FDA has approved many hundreds of important new medicines including treatments for cancer, infectious disease, neurological and psychiatric disorders, and cardiovascular diseases.
PDUFA implementation efforts have reduced product review times and eliminated the earlier lag in availability of new drugs to U.S. patients. The median approval time for priority drug and biologics applications has been reduced from 14 months in fiscal year (FY) 1993 to a median of six months in FY 2006. Priority applications are those for new drugs offering a significant advance over existing treatments. Applications for drugs similar to those already marketed are designated "standard". For standard NDAs, the median approval time was 22 months in FY 1993. By FY 2006, the median approval time had declined to 16 months for standard NDAs.
Along with these successes, the drug review program also has faced challenges. Program costs, including payroll and rent-related costs, and review workload continue to grow as more companies seek FDA advice during drug development, requesting meetings and special protocols assessments from FDA. This increased workload has not been reflected in the current fee adjustments.
The volume of post-market safety reports also has grown and has put a strain on our post-market capacity. For example, the number of reports of serious and unexpected adverse events has jumped by more than 65 percent in 3 years, from 129,000 reports in 2002, to 214,000 in 2005. PDUFA currently allows for fee-supported post-market activities, but that support is restricted to the first three years after marketing approval and it applies only to drugs approved after October 1, 2002. A recent analysis of safety-related labeling changes has found that the majority of those changes occur after the product has been on the market for three years.
We have developed our recommendations in a manner designed to solicit broad and repeated public input. We began to seek public comment on PDUFA reauthorization at a public meeting in November 2005. We also had follow-up meetings with patient groups, consumer groups and healthcare professionals during 2006. Some participants expressed concern about reliance on user fees. Almost all expressed support for more FDA resources to keep the review process strong and adequately staffed. And virtually all expressed the view that PDUFA should provide increased funding for post-market safety. Many of the public stakeholders who talked to us also expressed the view that FDA should expand its capacity to review direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisements.
During 2006, we also held discussions with representatives from the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. In those discussions, we raised the concerns we heard in our meetings with other stakeholders, as well as our own concerns. The proposed changes we are recommending respond to many of those concerns and address FDA's goals for PDUFA IV.
1. Ensure Sound Financial Footing
Our first recommendation is to put the new drug review program on a sound financial footing. User fees have provided substantial resources to FDA, but these resources have not kept up with the increasing costs of the program due to inflation and the expanding review workload. The PDUFA III provisions for annually adjusting fees for inflation and workload have not adequately accounted for actual growth in costs and workload. Therefore, we are proposing changes to the PDUFA financial provisions to correct for these shortcomings.
In terms of payroll costs, PDUFA currently allows for adjustments for federal pay increases, but not full payroll cost increases, which would include the cost of employee health benefits, retirement benefits and other payroll compensation costs. While federal pay increases have grown at an average of 4.2 percent over the past 5 years, total payroll costs for FDA have grown at an average annual rate of 5.8 percent. In PDUFA IV we recommend changing the calculation of inflation adjustment to include the actual FDA rate of increase in total payroll costs –including salary and benefits per full-time equivalent (FTE)--over the most recent 5-year period.
Rent and rent-related costs have also been increasing. Between fiscal year 2001 and 2005 rent and rent-related costs have gone up over 21 percent per FTE and these cost are expected to increase as we continue to move to the White Oak facility. Part of this cost reflects the increased building security requirements during recent years. We did not account for this cost growth in our current annual fee adjustments.
In addition, fee adjustments for workload should more accurately reflect the full scope of FDA review activities. For example, since FY 2000, meetings scheduled at the request of drug sponsors grew by 72 percent, up to 2,288 meetings in FY 2006. This figure translates to more than nine formal meetings per business day. But the current workload adjuster does not account for this dramatic increase. We recommend that the PDUFA IV workload adjuster be refined to include adjustments for growth in the number of meetings and special protocol assessments for investigational new drugs, and growth in the volume of labeling supplements and annual reports submitted for FDA review.
To pay for these proposals for sound financial footing, as well as for enhancements to pre-market and post-market review, that will be discussed shortly, we are recommending that PDUFA fees be increased by $87.4 million per year. This increase yields a total of $392.8 million in user fees in FY 2008. However, I note that this total is calculated based on the PDUFA workload through June of 2006. We expect that the final total would be higher once we have the workload data through June of 2007. We've estimated that with that 2007 data, the total fee funding during the first year of PDUFA IV would be on the order of $437.8 million. This amount would be adjusted in later years based on measured changes in inflation and workload.
The recommended increase of $87.4 million would include $17.7 million to pay for salary and benefit increases; $11.7 million to pay increased rents and rent-related costs like security, and a share of the costs of FDA's move to the new White Oak facility in Silver Spring, Md. The proposed increase also includes $20 million to cover significant increases in the drug review workload that were incurred but not compensated for under PDUFA III. These costs could be supported under PDUFA IV, and these costs are expected to continue.
The recommended increase of $87.4 million also includes $37.9 million in enhancements to the drug review program. These would be in two basic areas: First, proposed enhancements to the pre-market review process. Second, proposed modernization of the post-market safety system. I'll next describe proposed enhancements to the drug review program, covering these two basic areas. Then I will turn to a proposed new program to assess user fees for advisory reviews of DTC television ads.
2. Enhance Process for Pre-Market Review
For PDUFA IV, FDA recommends enhancements in two areas for the pre-market review process: 1) expanding the implementation of Good Review Management Practices (GRMPs) developed under PDUFA III and 2) undertaking some additional initiatives designed to help expedite drug development. In the area of GRMPs, we propose to further implement the principles and goals for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of our review process that were outlined in our 2005 guidance document, Guidance for Review Staff and Industry on Good Review Management Principles and Practices for Prescription Drug User Fee Act Products. We would expand the implementation of GRMPs by developing a planned timeline for the review of the application with particular attention to elements such as 1) discussion of labeling and post-marketing study commitments; 2) decision-making; and 3) documentation of such decisions in the administrative record by the signatory authority. By providing such a timeline, applicants will better understand FDA's review plan and when to expect feedback from the Agency on important issues such as application deficiencies, labeling, and post-marketing study commitments.
The PDUFA IV proposal also includes an increase of $4.6 million in user fees to fund additional staff to further enhance the science base of our review processes and to develop guidance documents to assist in clinical drug development, including several guidances related to clinical trial design. Clarifying FDA's expectations on important topics such as clinical trial design will enable the industry to focus their efforts on useful trials and decrease less useful experimentation. Increased resources also would free up reviewer time for greater participation in scientific training and research collaborations that will ultimately help clarify regulatory pathways for development of promising future therapies.
Lastly, the PDUFA IV proposal includes a $4 million increase in funding to further improve the information technology (IT) infrastructure for human drug review, to move FDA toward an all-electronic drug review system.
3. Modernize and Transform the Post-Market Drug Safety System
FDA would also use the proposed PDUFA IV funds to modernize and transform the drug safety system, throughout the entire life cycle of drug products. Our proposed enhancements include the activities and investments identified as most critical by our post-market review staff.
The recommended $87.4 million increase would include $29.3 million and hiring 82 additional staff for post-market safety activities. This would triple the amount of user fee funding available to improve the post-market drug safety system. We also propose to eliminate the current statutory time limit that restricts user fee funding of drug safety activities to the first three years that a drug is on the market. This would allow user fees to fund safety activities on a marketed product at any time in the drug's life-cycle. Eliminating the statutory time limitation will provide enhanced funding for the assessments of drug products over time, to adequately manage drug risks, regardless of a drug's approval date. Among other initiatives described below, FDA would use the increased funds to further enhance and improve communication and coordination between FDA pre-market and post-market review staff, a key recommendation made by the Institute of Medicine in their September 2006 Report.
As part of the proposed enhancements, we would analyze and adopt new scientific approaches to improve our tools for detection, evaluation, prevention, and mitigation of adverse events associated with drugs and biological products. We would use these increased funds to procure external research to determine the best way to maximize the public health benefits associated with the collection and reporting of adverse events throughout a product's life cycle. Such studies would attempt to answer central questions related to: 1) the number and types of safety concerns that are discovered by various types of adverse event collection; 2) the age of the medical products at the time such safety concerns are detected; and 3) the types of actions that are subsequently taken and their ultimate effect on patient safety.
The proposed funds also would be used by FDA to identify and document epidemiology best practices, through input from academia, industry, and others in the public. This would inform our development of a guidance document that addresses epidemiological best practices and principles for the conduct of scientifically sound observational studies using quality data sources.
Another critical part of the proposed drug safety modernization would be maximizing the utility of current tools for adverse event detection and risk assessment. We would do this by obtaining access to additional drug safety information beyond that discovered through spontaneous adverse event reports, including population-based epidemiological data and other types of observational data resources. In addition, fees would support additional training for our current staff, and hiring additional epidemiologists, safety evaluators, and programmers who can best use the existing and new adverse event information.
PDUFA IV also would allow us to develop a plan to evaluate current risk management plans and tools. We would hold a public workshop to obtain input from academia, industry and other stakeholders regarding the prioritization of the plans and tools to be evaluated. The evaluation would include assessments of the effectiveness of identified Risk Minimization Action Plans (RiskMAPS) and current risk management and risk communication tools. Based on those evaluations FDA would conduct an annual systematic review and public discussion of the effectiveness of one or two risk management programs and one major risk management tool. By making such information publicly available we would promote effective and consistent risk management and communication.
We would also use the increased PDUFA IV funds to improve our post-market safety-related IT systems to ensure the best collection, evaluation, and management of the vast quantity of safety data received by FDA. We would use these funds to improve our IT infrastructure to support a safety workflow tracking system, to support access to and analyses of externally linked databases, and to enhance FDA's AERS and surveillance tools.
4. Review of Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Advertising
We also are proposing a new program to assess fees for advisory reviews of DTC television advertisements. Research has shown benefits associated with DTC prescription drug television advertising, such as informing patients about the availability of new treatment options and encouraging patients to see a physician about an undiagnosed illness. However, some have expressed concerns that DTC advertisements may overstate benefits or fail to fairly convey risks.
Currently, companies have the option of submitting their planned advertisements to FDA for advisory review before public dissemination. This approach provides the benefit of FDA input on whether or not the advertisements are accurate, balanced, and adequately supported, enabling advertisements to be changed, if necessary, before they are shown to the public.
Companies recognize the benefits this advisory review mechanism offers. However, though FDA's DTC advisory review workload has been steadily increasing, our staffing for this activity has remained relatively level.
Therefore, we propose creating a separate program to assess, collect, and use fees for the advisory review of prescription drug television advertisements. These user fees would not be funded by application, product, or establishment fees assessed under PDUFA. Instead, these new fees would be assessed separately and collected only from those companies that intend to seek FDA advisory reviews of DTC television advertisements. This program would provide for increased FDA resources to allow for the timely review of DTC television advertisement advisory submissions and ensure FDA input on whether or not the advertisements are accurate, balanced, and adequately supported.
To ensure stable funding for the program in case the number of advisory submissions fluctuates widely from year to year, the program would assess a one-time participation fee to be placed in an operating reserve. The program would then charge fees each year for each advisory review requested. These new fees would provide sufficient resources for FDA to hire additional staff to review DTC television advertising submissions in a predictable, timely manner. FDA anticipates collecting $6.25 million in annual fees during the first year of the program (and a similar amount to go into an operating reserve fund) to support 27 additional staff to review DTC television advertising. Advisory review fee amounts would be adjusted annually for inflation and to take into account increases in workload. As part of this program, FDA is proposing to commit to certain performance goals including review of a certain number of original advisory review submissions in 45 days and resubmissions in 30 days. The goals would be phased in over the 5 years of the program to allow for the recruitment and training of staff.
PDUFA III expires on September 30, 2007 and I want to re-emphasize the importance of achieving a timely reauthorization of this law. FDA is ready to work with you to accomplish this goal. If we are to sustain our record of accomplishment under PDUFA III, it is critical that the reauthorization occur seamlessly without any gap between the expiration of the old law and the enactment of PDUFA IV. Any delay in the reauthorization of this program could trigger erosion in our work force, particularly among senior reviewers whose skills are in very high demand. The repercussions of such a loss would be with us for years to come.
Thank you for your commitment to the continued success of PDUFA and to the mission of FDA. I am happy to answer questions you may have.


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Still, Mr Medcraft's concern is understandable.
One nightmare scenario that would keep a diligent regulator awake at night is if a large number of do-it-yourself investment funds, which are now a major sector in the financial market, were overexposed in risky investments when the market turns or a major institution collapses. With yields on conventional investments low, investors are being tempted to use riskier products including margin loans, contracts for difference, derivatives and hybrid securities in greater numbers. If this ends in tears, ASIC would inevitably ending up shouldering some of the blame. Mr Medcraft is also justified in his concerns that investors cannot be relied on to do more than glance at product disclosure statements. This does limit the effectiveness of disclosure as an investor tool, but that comes down to individual choice.
There is only so much that government regulation can do to prevent private investors from financially hurting themselves. There is no amount of education that can mitigate risk, and most know that risk and returns are aligned. Even if some sort of accreditation for investors was introduced, wily touts would no doubt find a way to dress up their products in such a way as to escape the need for potential investors to have to jump any new hurdle. It's also hard to see how any such test could have prevented the losses incurred in such collapses as Banksia, Trio Capital, MF Global or Storm Financial.
There are already some safeguards of the type suggested by Mr Medcraft in place. ASIC requires CFD platform providers to give new clients a client suitability test comprising four questions to test their knowledge of the product.
But given the hostile reaction of market players to more extensive testing, ASIC would be better off concentrating on sharpening its surveillance to catch advisers and investment companies that are heading off the rails. Catching a few bad apples will not prevent investors getting in over their heads, but it would help.
The Australian Financial Review


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Two men have been arrested after Rihanna posted a picture of herself with an animal over her shoulder during her stop at Thailand for her "Diamonds World Tour."
The animal posing with Rihanna is a slow loris, which is a squirrel-like primate on the protected species list in Thailand. The photo, which was posted to Twitter and Instagram by Rihanna and has received more than 200,000 "likes", alerted police to the use of the animal. Police arrested the two individuals that brought the loris to the photo opportunity. The men arrested include a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy. The two could face up to four years in prison and a $1,300 fine for possession of a proctored animal, reports ABC News.
Not everyone is happy about Rihanna posing with the loris.
"The public often takes a cue from people they look up to, and when celebrities act in this manner, there is a real danger that the mass thinks its ok for everyone else to be doing this. It's not ok," Kanitha Krishnasamy, Senior Programme Officer at Traffic, told Fox News.


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Published: November 24, 2009 at 8:56 AMWorking holidays are really the best to work. I remember working the Easter holiday in 2008, and it's just like how Robert described. Yes you'll be working a lot of hours during that week, but the guests are very nice and easy to work with. And sometimes they can be a lot of fun, especially on a water ride or making jokes while they're in queue.
Published: November 24, 2009 at 5:17 PMMy family and I visited Animal Kingdom around Thanksgiving last year. It was great1 There almost no crowds, every staff member had a smile, and we could enjoy the holiday decor without having to battle our way through thousands of others. We waited 15min tops for EE and rode it three times in a row. WE even got dream parking AND dream fastpasses as part of the year of a million dreams. When the park opened, we were there with about 200 others and that was it. We had a great view of the parade as well, not even having to reserve a spot.Definetly visit around the Thanksgiving holiday, less crowds and you get the great holiday spirit.


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By Sean Wardwell
Killeen Daily Herald
Changes in state law will soon cause Killeen to spend about $30,000 more on city elections.
City Attorney Kathy Davis informed Killeen council members Tuesday in a pre-council meeting workshop that Senate Bill 100, which implemented the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act of 2009, eliminates the county's ability to assist city elections in even-numbered years.
That act requires ballots be sent to military and overseas voters 45 days prior to an election, including runoffs and primaries. As primary elections and subsequent runoffs are held in March, county clerks would not have enough turnaround time to assist with and prepare voting machines for May municipal elections.
Davis presented council members with three options to address the problem - moving city elections to November to be administered by the county, holding elections in May of odd-numbered years or continuing May elections in even-numbered years.
Moving elections to November, according to Davis, would continue to eliminate City Hall as a polling location and move city issues to the bottom of the ballot. Moving elections to May in odd-numbered years would mean not staggering council terms for an election, providing the possibility of 100 percent turnover.
However, both of those options also would require a one-time extension of the terms for the mayor and the at-large councilmen from a period of six months to a year after the next election to provide for full terms. Both options would require an amendment to the city charter, as well.
Davis said city staff recommended the third option of retaining May municipal elections in even-numbered years, citing voter familiarity with the existing process and the fact that no charter amendments would be required.
"The one con of this option is that it would require us to rent voting equipment from an outside company," Davis said. "This would increase our costs from roughly $20,000 to $50,000. So, it's a $30,000 cost to rent the equipment."
Council members reached a consensus in the workshop to take the third option of retaining May elections in even-numbered years despite the increased cost. Since the decision does not alter existing city policy, no vote was required in the regular meeting.
In other business, the council:
Voted to approve a memorandum adopting a fund balance and operating revenue fiscal policy statement.
Voted to table discussions regarding forming an outside group to develop a possible children's museum and a dog park in Killeen until next week's workshop.
Contact Sean Wardwell at email@example.com or (254) 501-7552.


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IF you have a favorite neighborhood, you can get a little house-proud, a little defensive, about its joys.
As Southern Californians, with our spreading exurbia mocked for so long as entirely unwalkable by the East Coast mandarins of city planning, when we find a downtown neighborhood we love, we revel in it.
I love Pasadena's Playhouse District, which stretches along central Colorado from Los Robles on its west to Catalina on its east, from Walnut on the north to Green on the south - with, yes, the Pasadena Playhouse at its core. Two fine museums (Pacific Asia and Pasadena Museum of California Art), Boston Court, the Ice House. Neat restaurants. The Laemmle. The cultural hub that is Vroman's - so much more than a bookstore. It's has a proper pride of place as compared with virtually any other downtown in Southern California.
When the Playhouse District board had a get-together at the hip, historic Metropole wine bar and store on El Molino Tuesday, it invited Brooklyn big thinker Fred Kent of the nonprofit Project for Public Spaces, an expert on revitalizing downtowns. He's a founder of New York's Earth Day with John Lindsay 40 years ago who now travels 150,000 miles a year training people in placemaking.
Over the hubbub, I asked Kent what he thought of the district.
"You have...the makings of something," he said. "It is great in...potential."
There was a bit of a hush in the room. When one's done something well, one expects a little praise. But it was more as if we were the patient, and he the doctor. Since we apparently had a bit of a bug, I encouraged him to give us the medicine: straight, no chaser.
"I talk about the power of 10 things that are great," he said. "Here, you've got the bookstore, and...look. Your sidewalks are way too narrow. Your street is too wide." Colorado "is this great, yawning...you need to double the width of your sidewalks. Move them out into the street with sidewalk cafes. A great street is about people."
I noted that, right, it's not as if we had a Greenwich Village, crawling with pedestrians.
"No," he said. "So let's turn everything upside down."
Everyone started getting into the act.
"What about parking?" came the call.
"Parking is a bogus issue," Kent said. "When you have a great place, people will come to it." Folks started to look a little skeptical. "Worked for Old Pasadena!" came the call. "Look, all I'm saying is it's not the parking for, say, four great restaurants - it's the restaurants. Put the parking in front of them and you can't see the restaurants."
"I'm starting to get convinced!" called out Bob Oltman, founder of the PMCA.
"For instance," Kent said, looking at Joel Sheldon of Vroman's, "if you had your newstands more out toward the sidewalk more..."
"You'd have to run it by the city!" came a call.
"The city made me put them in in the first place! I admit it - I was wrong!" Joel joked.
Kent proposes "bureaucracy-free zones" such as PPS recently effected in Cambridge. "Take Harvard Yard - nothing had changed in 200 years, and we brought in food trucks, and it worked!"
Mmm. Imagine an Arcade Lane teeming with midnight strollers. We can dream.
He saw some turned-down faces. "Look," Kent said, "you've got good bones. You just have to make it gel."
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USX (U.S. Christmas)
There is a hazy place in my mind where I can see the music in our future. And when I look back on our past, it is clear that our music was always there. Some things are supposed to happen, and this world has a way of manifesting its will. I do not know what will happen, I only know part of what is possible. As always, there are no guarantees. Neil Young once said: Rock and roll and security have no place together.
He was right about that.
USX has always been a willing dive into the unknown. Things happen without our control, and even in the most powerful and united moments, there is something at work that none of us fully understand. We are always on the edge of collapsing into chaos, and I think that is the only real way to create music. However, maybe all I really know about guitar is this: When I hit it just right, the energy travels out from me and never stops. Like all true things, it finds a circular path forever. Relate this to your own life how you will, all I know is my life: My experience, my loves and hates, my dreams and their songs. I am part of a band whose members live apart from me the majority of the time. They have their own lives to live, and I often wonder how we keep such a strong connection - the mind-meld that we all feel without ever speaking of it. Somehow, it works. It always has.
The blessings of this life are mysterious. This nebulous channel has always come to meet us, inspire us, use us and live within us. May you all feel the power of your own connection, for we all live within this sprawling miracle.
Nate – USX
November, 2013
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How can you find a hacker?
I like racing hackers (unless they pick on me). To all you racers that meet hackers, is there any way to play against hackers more often. I'm not a hacker, and it's been months ever since I met one. Also, in my opinion, hackers make online more fun and challenging.
girantina1799 - 6 years ago
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What I'm trying to say is that is there a way to find hackers online in Worldwide mode or Regional mode. Not with friends. And when I mean hackers, I mean the ones that use random items at random times, or hackers that give you VR. Not the ones that pick on certain opponents. I'm asking, is there a way to encounter a hacker in Worldwide or Regional more often? Also, I'd like to know about hackers that you met and short stories about them. Like what chainchomp27 said. And, NO, I am not eager to lose. Just to have excitment.
girantina1799 - 6 years ago
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Also, ever since I've gotten in the middle 7000vr, I've been encountering hackers more often. Does it have something to do with vr or what?
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Come on, people. I'm waiting for a couple answers.
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If you are friends with hackers, you can call them and ask them to play. But if you don't, try finding hackers on the computer and ask for their friend codes. Personally, I truly hate hackers who play online. They make it so that they always win. Then people complain and leave. If you see someone hacking, then it might mean that they have no natural video games talent. I have only won ONCE against a hacker. It was on Rainbow Road. I was able to jump a few high spots and cut my time by 20 seconds. But if you are that eager to lose...
chainchomp27 - 6 years ago
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Ill start hacking more often lol
Sir_Reaver - 5 years ago
They don't pick on you, they pick on everybody. plus, if you are talking about that, You gotta be lucky. Sorry, bud
chainchomp27 - 5 years ago
It doesn't have to do anything with vr, it's just luck
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12/21/2005 UFOs. Author of Roswell 'flying saucer' news
( Walter Haut, co-founder of UFO museum, was 83 )
12/13/2005 UFOs. Ten things you should do if you encounter a UFO, MUFON Reports
Check out ten things should do if you see a UFO: MUFON article. "Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, a nonprofit organization "dedicated to the scientific study of UFOs for the benefit of humanity."
Some think MUFON has a secret agenda to blur information in order to protect government projects. I'm not sure.
Their web site is pretty cool and getting better all the time. Check the latest reports here.
Caption: National Guardsmen stand watch over a suspected flying saucer in a vacant lot near Bay Farm Island in the 1950s. Chronicle File Photo here.
Below is a recent MUFON report of a military jet chasing a UFO. Neat reading, but it lacks some basics: Who (names?), where (Arizona is pretty big...) and when (approx time?).
"AZ, US, 2005-12-07: I was outside having a cigarette, scanning the skies and noting air traffic. I looked due West and spotted a jet that was near what looked to be a small orange dim star... The "star" had pulled to roughly an inch away from the jet and was heading directly towards us, travelling due east. ... I was watching the orange "star" get closer and closer to us with the jet still pursuing but quickly falling behind. ... both aircraft were nearly above us and flying at a relatively low altitude. The jet was about 5 inches behind the craft and we could hear the rumble of its engines and clearly see a contrail.
The craft that it was chasing was completely silent and had no contrail. They were low enough that we could make out a dark underbody for the first craft. All any of us could say was "oh my god" and "oh ****". It had a dim orange colored light towards the front with a second dimmer white light towards the middle. I could see what appeared to be a whitish light at the rear of the craft. We could make out a dim outline of the ship itself and it seemed to be narrower towards the front with a much wider back. It was completely silent as it passed over and its lights were much dimmer than the flashing lights of the jet chasing it. We watched it as both passed over our roof.
The last time I saw it, it was roughly 8 inches ahead of the jet (viewing from the ground) and then we couldn't see anything but the jet still following the same path. We were all excited but scared, too. ... Nobody wants to go outside again. I know that I was shaking like a leaf and I still feel like vomiting an hour later." - mufon.com
See the Xenophilia UFO archives for more.
11/30/2005 UFOs. Space alien hearings? What does the defence minister know?
"A former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau has joined forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics - relations with "ETs." By "ETs," Mr. Hellyer and these organizations mean ethical, advanced extraterrestrial civilizations that may now be visiting Earth. On September 25, 2005, in a startling speech at the University of Toronto ... , Paul Hellyer, Canada's Defence Minister from 1963-67..., publicly stated: "UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head." - more at freemarketnewsYes, of course they are real... but where is the evidence that the pilots of UFOs are ETs instead of black ops stealth fighter pilots?
11/27/2005 UFOs. BBC article mentions possible anti-gravity technology captured long ago by US.
What's this? Mainstream discussion of fringe ideas (see UFO article) like Nazi anti-gravity technology? Pretty interesting. The BBC article sums it up well: Some say the technology to save the planet exists, however, that technology could also destroy the planet. Knowing human nature, I agree with the secrecy! The trick is to find a way to release just enough knowledge to allow a safe clean power supply without opening the doors to unlimited power. An unlimited power supply demands a degree of self control our species has not yet attained. You just don't let your five-year old kid play with loaded guns.
Project Paperclip: Dark side of the Moon
This BBC article made me imagine a new conspiracy theory I'd never considered until now: Perhaps the reason the Saturn V plans are "lost" and also "not lost" (see Moon Hoax article) is that they used German anti-gravity technology. This may explain why some facts about the Saturn rocketry don't add up according to at least one fringe rocket scientist. Well, probably not, but isn't that a fun idea for a Sci Fi story? BBC reports:
"Sixty years ago the US hired Nazi scientists to lead pioneering projects, such as the race toconquer space. These men provided the US with cutting-edge technology which still leads the way today, but at a cost. ... Truman had expressly ordered that anyone found "to have been a member of the Nazi party and more than a nominal participant in its activities, or an active supporter of Nazism militarism" would be excluded. Under this criterion even von Braun himself, the man who masterminded the Moon shots, would have been ineligible to serve the US. A member of numerous Nazi organisations, he also held rank in the SS. His initial intelligence file described him as "a security risk" ... Added to this, the large number of still-secret Paperclip documents has led many people, including Nick Cook, Aerospace Consultant at Jane's Defence Weekly, to speculate that the US may have developed even more advanced Nazi technology, including anti-gravity devices, a potential source of vast amounts of free energy. Cook says that such technology "could be so destructive that it would endanger world peace and the US decided to keep it secret for a long time". - bbc
The solution to the security risk was compartmentalization: Each group of scientists works on only a small isolated problem without knowing the big picture. With this system, even at the top many are in the dark. Good thing too, since many world leaders are crazy.
11/12/2005 UFOs. Irritating UFO Flare-ups
Read this well written ufo encounter. Saucer shape seen in southern Oregon near Hart Mountain next to a boulder field full of Native American petroglyphs and pictographs ... including a few figures resembling "astronauts or aliens with space helmets and antennae."
"When trying to get a good night's sleep in the outdoors, there's nothing more irritating than the occasional flare up of UFOs. ... When you see something so real, yet so unreal, the mind congers up all kinds of strange and frightful possibilities.
Maybe it was the ancients coming back to check on their sacred ground and they had discovered invaders in their territory. ... A worse possibility yet, a strange craft lands next to the tent and a military general and a handful of men in black come out and tell us that we "didn't see any of this." Then we are whisked off to some "black prison" in Turgurgestan.
... war games? I still say those lights were the biggest, brightest flares I've ever seen, so I'm sticking with the UFO scenario. " - Read the full story hereSee our UFO article for more, pictures, videos, maps, theories, etc.
11/4/2005 UFOs. Super-large, colored fireballs over Germany.
"Many people in Germany have noticed the fireballs, said Werner Walter, an amateur astronomer in Mannheim who runs a Web site on unexplained astronomical phenomena and a hotline for reports on unidentified flying objects (UFO).
... NASA's science Web site (http://science.nasa.gov) mentions reports of recent fireball sightings in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, North Ireland and Japan. It includes images of the fireballs, which one man likened to a spotlight. Walter described them as "super-large, colored fireballs that shoot with the speed of lightning through the sky." - reuters
"November 3, 2005: "I thought some wise guy was shining a spotlight at me," says Josh Bowers of New Germany, Pennsylvania. "Then I realized what it was: a fireball in the southern sky. I was doing some backyard astronomy around 9 p.m. on Halloween (Oct. 31, 2005), and this meteor was so bright it made me lose my night vision." - nasa
"The bright light [on horizon, photo above] behind the clouds is a fireball photographed Nov. 2, 2005, by Mark Vorhusen of Germany.".
Google translation of select posts from german site : "That is third nevertheless already at least in the last days here in the RMG". ... "From white-hot, over bluish and reddish participated somehow everything. " ... "The trace was to be seen still 20 seconds long certainly!"
See our UFO article for more on this topic.
10/28/2005 UFOs. Strange UFOs over San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- There was something strange in the skies over California on Wednesday night. One San Francisco resident said lights appeared to hover in the sky near the cross on Mount Davidson, and when he looked at them through binoculars they appeared to vibrate. The unidentified flying objects were visible from the Bay Area to Las Vegas. The U.S. Air Force says it cannot account for them. There were no military flights, and no missile test launches.
See our UFO article for some possible explanations.
10/14/2005 UFOs. Google Maps technology used to track UFO sightings
"Using the Google Maps API (or application program interface), http://www.ufomaps.com/ launches an interactive map of UFO sightings.
The interactive map is dotted with "flying saucer" icons indicating where UFOs have been sighted. Clicking on the icon pulls up a short summary of the sighting, with an additional link to a more detailed report. That data is from the National UFO Reporting Center.
The Google initiative is not the only site to use maps to chart UFO activity. http://www.larryhatch.net/ is a detailed effort to graph UFO activity from the past 50 years or earlier and as a sizable set of graphs, charts, histograms and other data. http://www.ufodisclosure.com tracks alleged UFO flight corridors and patterns near Bisbee, Arizona. While not offering maps, another serious effort of research is at http://www.ufoinfo.com/. Enjoy the skies!
For great UFO sighting maps from Larry Hatch's database see our UFO article. I like that map because known hoaxes are removed.
9/16/2005 UFOs. Video of Stable Circular Winged Aircraft
Check out this Geobat Flying Saucer video. Seems to work. See our article on UFOs.
9/16/2005 UFOs. Static Lift? Aircraft with no moving parts?
There have been a number of electric propulsion systems patented. The Ionocraft was patented ( 3,130,945 ) in 1964 by Major Alexander P. deSeversky. See the video on this page for a modern test lift of (they say) 100g with a different model.
The craft in the above picture is said to be propelled by "emissions of ions" and the downward smoke shows a "powerful electrostatic down draft created by the vehicle". The photo caption says it was created with $5.00 worth of balsa wood and aluminium wire. The platform consumes 90 watts of electricity, covers 1296 square inches, weighs 2 oz. There is no safe 90 watt power source that light as far as I know, so this would have to be plugged in. You can see the wires in these photos:
Here is a close up view of how it works. Makes sense to me. Worth a try anyway. Could this be the power source that allows soundless flying triangles like the one seen a few years back in Phoenix, AZ?
Once you have a basic working model, you can improve it. If this concept works, could it eventually be modified to lift enough to carry its own power supply and more? Like a person? Intriguing.
8/30/2005 UFOs (anomalist, ufoinfo). Man Finds UFO Freeway, Red Motherships in Big Dipper.At least some UFOs are man made. See our UFO article. I've asked Ted to send me his presentations. Might be interesting...
"... a Mount Vernon man says you don't have to believe in aliens. You can see their ships any night of the week with your own eyes. Ted Anderson says 50 miles above the earth, there's a veritable UFO expressway he calls the UFO Freeway Portal Location. "Myself and thousands of friends have been watching it since 1968," says Anderson. "Motherships come from other worlds to drop off their planetary ships to come to Earth." Where are they from? What's their purpose? Anderson can only speculate.
"This is a security force created by some super being organization or civilization." He believes these ships are standing guard, literally protecting us from hostile aliens. And he says if you get out of the city and gaze up south of the Big Dipper, you can see the ships for yourself with the naked eye. "These red ships, they're there constantly." Anderson has created two Power Point presentations to help interested citizens locate the UFO portal in the night sky. He says he'll email you all the information if you write to him at firstname.lastname@example.com." - komotv
8/26/2005 UFOs. Men in Black?
Article found (along with other interesting stuff) on book-of-thoth.com.
" In appearance, they conform pretty closely to the stereotyped image of a CIA or secret service man. They wear dark suits ... all the clothes looking as though just purchased."
8/19/2005 UFOs. Why don't they just fly over D.C.?
"Just after midnight on July 19, 1952, "seven pips appeared suddenly" on National Airport's control center radar in Washington, according to this unattributed cartoon depicting those UFO sightings. "There's one ... and there it goes!" a nearby airline pilot reportedly radioed. (Photo courtesy of the National Archives)" - newshouse
See our UFO article for much more.
6/20/2005 UFOs / Aliens Photo Contest a UFO Cover up?
Remember a while back when a guy in the UK was hacking top US computers searching for proof of aliens and UFOs? Well, consider the possibility that some real photos were found and are spreading around the UK. They are about to hit big time and now the cover team is scrambling to cover up. How? Bury the real stuff among thousands of fakes. Notice that this is coming from MSN.UK.
"MSN is giving away hundreds of prizes in the coolest competition of the year so far. All you have to do is get a MSN Space (the best free blog product in the world) and a MSN Hotmail account (the biggest free webmail product in the world) and… take a picture of a UFO, or an alien. Do this and you could win a state of the art camcorder, 10 Creative Zen MP3 players plus hundreds of Qees. It takes minutes to sign-up and it's completely free! Plus, if you can locate the hidden UFO base, you can win our star prize - a NASA holiday! Prepare for lift off!"
Also notice that the judges are Nick Pope who "used to run the British Government's UFO Project at the Ministry of Defense. and Peter Varnish. Are you sure you want to give british intel your personal info by signing up for an MSN UFO account? Sure, why not. Nice way for them to count the enthusiasts, I suppose.
The brits and US counterparts are probably hoping that some real leaked pictures will be used in the contest. Then they can have a talk with you and keep the lid tight about certain secret craft. There is not a cover up of aliens. Aliens are the cover up.
The cover up is of secret circular winged aircraft, that is, man made UFOs that have been around for decades. More on man-made UFOs here.
The best way to hide a secret truth is among a large number of decoys. Perhaps this is why there are so many bizarre books and Web page claims along with man-made UFO claims. Association of real stuff with the absurd keeps most rational people from looking at the real stuff. One site says the VZ-9V Avrocar Avro Aircraft, a British concern, in the photo above "never got off the ground." Yes, it did. Another article says "It flew well at low altitudes of five or six feet, but when it tried to rise further it became unstable." The U.S. Air Force took over the project in 1954. Many early aircraft designs are unstable in real world test, but these flaws are corrected. Why were circular aircraft (and now triangular or diamond shaped craft) attractive? Answer: Radar stealth. (Photo from unmuseum)
Since it flew, did the Avro car break the law of gravity? No. It used jet engines for thrust. "By 1960 about 10 million dollars had been spent on the project. ... The Avro-Car was (depending on the source of the information) 18 or 25 feet in diameter, and weighed 3600 lb. It was powered by three centrally mounted gas turbine engines driving a 5 feet diam. central fan used for vertical takeoff.
Once in the air the turbo-jet exhaust would be shifted to the rear giving the vehicle forward thrust to allow the aerodynamic body to generate lift. ... It was hoped that the vehicle, designated VZ-9V, would ascend vertically and reach flight speeds of 1,500 mph (2,400 km/hr). ... One view was that the failed project was simply window-dressing to cover tests of a captured alien flying disc. ... When tested in 1961, it only flew up to 56 km/h." (34 mph).
Another view is that the "stability failures", "thrust dissipation in the impeller" and the "captured alien ship" stories were window dressing to hide the great successes of this multi-million dollar project.
Jet engines fly every day in our modern world and (lucky for frequent fliers) jet engines don't magically lose thrust when they are over 5 feet off of the ground.
6/9/2005 UFOs / Technology (sunuk | dailyrec). UFO hacker Gary McKinnon cost US $700k.
I've been told that there is a heavy price for real UFO knowledge. Mostly there is a thick jumble of nonsense and other layers of protection around the information, including people who will actively mess with your head if you start to get close. Assuming UFO knowledge was his real goal, McKinnon could have satisfied his curiousity with careful research and logic. Now he'll likely spend the rest of his life in jail. After all, he now knows too much (or does he?) And... Yes, you would be right to wonder how much of this story is made up to skillfully direct attention to certain things and away from other things. (wink). He is now out on bail, so it will be interesting to see what he says.
"Gary McKinnon, 39, codenamed 'Solo', was searching for evidence that America had covered up visits to Earth by aliens. ... McKinnon is alleged to have hacked into 97 systems belonging to the US Army, Navy and Air Force, the Pentagon and the NASA space agency. ... McKinnon, of Wood Green, North London, was first indicted by the Americans in 2002. They dubbed him 'the biggest military computer hacker of all time'
He was originally tracked four years ago after hacking into military systems after the September 11 hijack atrocities. He is alleged to have changed programs in the US military's network, forcing it to be closed down. He was arrested but told he would not be charged under British law."
"McKinnon's friends claimed he found thousands of UFO photos on US computers and said the Americans wanted to make an example of him for showing up lax security. One said: "This is all about their incompetence. "Some of the computers are so sh***ily set up they could not even track who was on them, so they are trying to pin everything on Gary. "You could go on to those computers they're talking about and there would be 30 other hackers in there." - mirror
"During a colourful hacking spree in 2002 and 2003 McKinnon accessed unclassified systems belonging to the Pentagon, the National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), an Eastern Seaboard nuclear sub base and a Nasa research facility" - scmag
"Gary McKinnon ... allegedly accessed 97 U.S. government computers, stole passwords, deleted files and shut down military computer networks, crashing 300 computers at Earle Naval Weapons Station in Colts Neck, N.J., (12 days) after 9/11." - nydaily
"U.S. officials have said that no classified material was obtained." - ctrib
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5/9/2005 UFOs. (metroactive) UFO Writer Speaks. This guy caught my attention because one of his 'fiction' books (published 1996) has a scene with armed unmanned aerial vehicles attacking people on the ground. This was before the CIA's predator drones after Sept 11, 2001. He seems plugged in.
"Besides being a successful Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Jacques Vallee has researched the UFO phenomenon perhaps more than any other person currently alive."
See our UFO article for much more.
3/28/2005 UFOs / Media (scoop) Disclosure Project Calls ABC News UFO Documentary a Hoax. An interesting read. Steven M. Greer MD of the Disclosure Project Calls the Peter Jennings UFO report a disinformation piece and claims the Jennings team turned down the hard evidence and many high-level credible eye witnesses that Greer offered. Greer states,
"We have received a CIA document from 1991 that clearly states that the CIA has contacts in the big media to change, kill or spin stories. From this document, dated 20 December 1991, and released 1 April 1992, to the Director of Central Intelligence from the Task Force on Greater CIA Openness, on page 6:
"PAO [the Public Affairs Office] now has relationships with reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation. This has helped us turn some intelligence failure stories into intelligence success stories…In many instances, we have persuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold or even scrap stories…"
It sounds like Greer is fighting "the man" and railing against the suppressed truth, doesn't it? Perhaps he is, but remember Mulder's password: Trust No 1. The evidence I've seen so far points not to aliens, but to UFOs as man-made secret craft. If that is the real truth, then some tricky group might say exactly what Greer is saying to keep the alien myth alive as a distraction. Does Greer really have whistle blowers or does he have story tellers with impressive credentials? There are so many possibilities. For example, he might be legit and he might believe in his cause, but he might be himself tricked by disinformation into thinking there are aliens when there aren't. Or perhaps there are... I watched his Internet video broadcast from a press room in Washington DC a few years back and some of the witnesses were amazing. So real! Now that was a great UFO show! It was even interrupted at one point ... as if someone was trying to suppress it. Gripping! Fun for the entire family! Just another leg of a big scam?
"On May 9, 2001, The Disclosure Project held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC at which more that 20 military, government, corporate and intelligence witnesses came forward to urge open and honest congressional hearings in to the subject of UFOs and exotic energy and propulsion technologies. The witnesses requested the Congress hold open hearing on the subject of UFOs and extraterrestrial contact."
3/28/2005 UFOs 1,500 Unsolved Cases from Project Blue Book Summarized. Read Brad Spark's comprehensive list of 1,500 sightings, which, even after investigation by the Bluebook cover up team, remained unknown. (pdf file here). My favorite is from Sept 23rd, 1948 around San Pablo and Pinole CA. Two military guys see a low flying bomber go over, then about a mile higher they see:
"a strange fast-flying irregularly shaped translucent white "amoeba" headed "E", the size of a four engine bomber, with 3 appendages in front and two trailing with a dark grey spot, possibly spherical near the center which remained stable in motion, the arms of the "amoeba" undulating, the object wobbling, disappeared suddenly, no trail."
Attack of the Vanishing Amoeba Headed E!! Now THAT sounds like a real alien encounter! ... or a bomber towing an odd weather balloon that popped? How is my visualization? Where was the head on the "E"? I wish I could see a sketch by the men who saw it. More ufo links here.
3/22/2005 UFOs. FLYING SAUCERS - SECRET HISTORY. This seems like a fairly sober assesment and is an interesting read on the angle of UFOs as man-made phenomena.
3/21/2005 UFOs. (sptimes | ufoarea | virtstrange | thinkabout ) Hidden History: UFO(s) Over LA Survive Attack by US Military? I like to point out that man-made UFOs have been around since at least the 1930's so there is no need to postulate aliens, ancient races, inner earth dwellers, visitors from other dimensions, etc.. I do, however, have trouble giving this story any man-made explanation. What advanced technologies from 1942 could have protected aircraft, blimps or whatever from direct artillery hits from 12.8 pound explosive anti-aircraft shells?
"1942: Army Gunners Fire At UFOs Over Los Angeles On Wednesday, February 25, 1942, at precisely 2 a.m., diners at the trendy Trocadero club in Hollywood were startled when the lights winked out and air raid sirens began to sound throughout greater Los Angeles. "Searchlights scanned the skies and anti-aircraft guns protecting the vital aircraft and ship-building factories went into action. In the next few hours they would fire over 1,400 shells at an unidentified, slow-moving object in the sky over Los Angeles that looked like a blimp, or a balloon."
"An article in the Feb. 25, 1942, Los Angeles Times reported a large object, targeted by spotlights in this photograph, that hovered over the city for five hours and appeared undamaged by antiaircraft fire."
Searchlight beams are converging on an unidentified aerial object exactly over the Culver City area of Los Angeles. (The small blobs of light are burst of anti-aircraft shells) source: Los Angeles Times Photo
"...Shooting at the aerial intruders were gunners of the 65th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) Regiment in Inglewood and the 205th Anti-Aircraft Regiment based in Santa Monica. The "white cigar-shaped object" took several direct hits but continued on its eastward flight. Up to 25 silvery UFOs were also seen by observers on the ground. Editor Peter Jenkins of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner reported, "I could clearly see the V formation of about 25 silvery planes overhead moving slowly across the sky toward Long Beach." Long Beach Police Chief J.H. McClelland said, "I watched what was described as the second wave of planes from atop the seven-story Long Beach City Hall. I did not see any planes but the younger men with me said they could.
An experienced Navy observer with powerful Carl Zeiss binoculars said he counted nine planes in the cone of the searchlight. He said they were silver in color. The (UFO) group passed along from one battery of searchlights to another, and under fire from the anti- aircraft guns, flew from the direction of Redondo Beach and Inglewood on the land side of Fort MacArthur, and continued toward Santa Ana and Huntington Beach. Anti-aircraft fire was so heavy we could not hear the motors of the planes."
Reporter Bill Henry of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "I was far enough away to see an object without being able to identify it... I would be willing to bet what shekels I have that there were a number of direct hits scored on the object." At 2:21 a.m., Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt issued the cease-fire order, and the twenty-minute "battle of Los Angeles" was over."
"... Unexploded shells destroyed pavement, homes and public buildings, three persons were killed and three died of heart attacks directly attributable to the one hour barrage."
"... Caught by the searchlights and captured in photographs, was an object big enough to dwarf an apartment house. Experienced lighter-than-air (dirigible) specialists doubted it could be a Japanese blimp because the Japanese had no known source of helium, and hydrogen was much too dangerous to use under combat conditions."
"... the Department of Defense claimed to have no record of the event. Five years before Roswell, them military was already learning to clamp down on UFOs." - nachos
Captured UFO years before Roswell? Perhaps aircraft were shot down, but due to the nature of the craft recovered, we wanted everyone to think that they weren't.
"In march 5, 1942, (Major General) George C. Marshall ( Chief of Staff ) writes a top-secret memo to the President, which states: "regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral ( Walter S. ) Anderson (head of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)) ... recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California... with no bearing on conventional explanation... This Headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly and according to secret intelligence sources they are in all probability of interplanetary origin." - rense | pdf's here
A February 27, 1942 memo (retyped, original not available) from FDR to Marshall
"... links the UFO crashes with the Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942, since it occurred only three days earlier. It alludes to "atomic secrets learned from study of celestial devices" and authorizes "Dr. Bush to proceed with the project without further delay."
Bing! The UFOs in the Battle of LA (and Roswell), if this memo is correct, could be secret German jet aircraft. "Celestial" and "interplanetary" likely refer not to aliens, but to atomic energy devices and jet / rocket engines, at the time super secret technology (see timeline below). German rockets officially reached outer space (celestial) just eight months after the Battle of LA. Dr. Vannevar Bush (no relation to GW) was heading the US a-bomb project, while in Germany scientists (1944-45?) were secretly testing small nukes and jet powered UFO shaped aircraft.
"Hitler never believed he would need rocket/jet/saucer technology. Germany only began any serious attempt to develop these technologies in 1942." - qtm
Best guess. Could also be aliens, I suppose. Take your pick. Either way, a very strange event.
3/20/2005 UFOs / Roswell Incident. Secret Jet Aircraft Tests with Progeria Pilots? Roswell, NM was at the time of the UFO crash, the only location of the US Atom Bomb. It makes sense that other secret stuff would be there. Did we cover up the story with Aliens because we didn't want the world to find out about our secret jets? If so, the first story about a recovered alien disk was a cover story, just like the second release denying the whole thing. Using Aliens as a cover story would have been an established emergency plan in case civilians contacted secret technology. The Germans may have pioneered the alien cover story. See photos. Or perhaps the Germans did contact aliens first and somehow persuaded the the aliens to fly over LA with them? (see story above).
The first press release on the Roswell incident had to say that SOMETHING had been recovered because Mac Brazell had wreckage from the craft in his possession. After they took all of the physical evidence away, the military could switch to the balloon story.
August 27, 1939: German pilot Eric Warsity flies experimental Heinkel He 178 with a jet engine designed by Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain. - history
1939: A-5 rockets with gyroscopic controls that attained seven miles altitude and eleven miles range.
December 7, 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
December 8, 1941: Congress approves entry into war. Germany and Italy declare war on U.S. - timeline
February 25, 1942: UFO battle of LA (Secret German jet aircraft captured. Nuclear technology?) Up to 25 Silvery craft flying in a "V" formation, plus one large white cigar-shaped thing that hovered over the city for five hours and appeared undamaged by antiaircraft fire.
March, 25, 1942: Germany flies first jet-powered Messerschmitt Me 262.
September 2, 1942: Bell flies the XP-59A Airacomet, first US jet. - history
October 3, 1942: Wernher von Braun's German V2 rocket first to enter outer space (space is considered to start at about 50 miles up) - cnd
February 19 , 1945: Germany tests the "H-II V7 Do-Stra" UFO? - mito
April 17, 1945: The V7 was a supersonic helicopter with 12 BMW turbo engines. It was powered by "unconventional sources" and on it's second flight obtained the height of 80,000 feet.
May 7, 1945: German government issues unconditional surrender to Allied forces.
August 6, 1945: Hiroshima: Manhattan Project's atomic bomb is dropped.
August 9, 1945: Second bomb is dropped after Japanese delay surrender.
September 2, 1945: Japan surrenders with one term: the emperor must retain his throne.
February 1946: von Braun now working for the US, launches first V2 rocket in USA.
November 27, 1946: General Groves, director of the Manhattan Project, recommends compartmentalization: bring in foreign scientists and make them citizens, but keep them from "coming in contact with our atomic energy program in any way." - heart7
December 1946: German Scientists come to US to continue work under Project Paperclip.
1946-47 U.S. moves German saucers to TX and White Sands Proving Grounds, NM - Malone
June 24, 1947: In daylight, Kenneth Arnold sees nine silvery bat winged UFOs with clear glass cockpits flying in a "V" formation, and traveling at a high rate of speed, over Mount Rainer in the Washington State. They skipped unsteadily like saucers. (compare to secret german jet fighter)
July 1947: Roswell, NM Crash. Same craft Arnold saw crash on a stormy night during a test flight. Bodies of test pilots (persons with projeria) are recovered, taken first to the Roswell Fire Dept. Notice Kaufmann's sketch of the crashed non-disk-shaped craft.
The sketches left "were drawn July 1947 by Frank Kaufmann in Hangar 84, completed at home the next day. They "...didn't have any of these big eyes or horns or anything else or spiny fingers. They were very good-looking people, ash-colored faces and skin. About 5 feet 4, 5 feet 5. Eyes a little more pronounced, a little bit larger. Small ears, small nose. Fine features. Hairless." At right, an unfortunate young individual with progeria.
Progeria idea explained in more detail on Guy Malone's site. If the German's did contact aliens, the entire Roswell incident might have been staged by the US to make other countries think that the aliens were now working with the US. Or perhaps aliens really were. The fun of this story is that you can take the known facts and stretch them around so many different possibilities depending on your world-view. The bottom line is that humans are very crafty, especially during wars. Click to enlarge these german UFO pictures from mito.
2/25/2005 UFOs. ABC News UFO Special. Here is a link to the info from the Peter Jennings UFO special last night.
Also see: Touted as an Investigation into UFOs, Project Blue Book Had Another Purpose. (ABCNews) "... the truth is Blue Book never became a serious, full-scale, scientific inquiry. The main purpose of the Air Force's UFO office was public relations, says Robert Goldberg, author of "Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America." ... That mission was denounce the UFOs, dismiss the UFOs, debunk the UFOs and anybody who believes in them  just come up with answers and get this UFO thing out of the newspapers," he told ABC News. The man most often responsible for making these explanations was Blue Book's one civilian scientist, Ohio State University astronomer J. Allen Hynek. Between 1948 and 1969, he was the lead investigator on thousands of cases."
Odd possibility: Go one step further... What if our govt. brainiacs figured out that it is human nature to distrust those in power and that the best way to manage this basic impulse is to manufacture an artifical conspiracy as a distraction to the real dirty deeds? In other words, you create a few UFOs with expensive special effects, then you create a fake investigation team that sloppily denies anything unusual. It's all a big game, a chineese finger puzzle, a clever mind trap. The real cover up is that the whole alien/ufo thing is an intentional manufactured fake out (with some real secret aircraft) to distract the masses from "smaller" less sexy deceptions (like a missing $1 trillion dollars, etc.) that would otherwise have people all fired up.
2/18/2005 UFOs (canoe) Record Number of Sightings in Canada "There were no little green men to be seen but there were plenty of strange occurrences in the night sky last year. A national survey by Ufology Research of Manitoba shows a record 882 UFO sightings were recorded in Canada in 2004 -- an average of more than two a day and up 31 per cent from the previous year. Included in the reports of unidentified flying objects were disc-shaped crafts, spectacular fireballs and a large black triangular object moving through the sky."
The picture above from fulldisklosure looks like it might be a man-made triangular aircraft ... doesn't it? I don't see any aliens on the ground around it, but the figures are blurry. Also, the aliens could be wearing "human masks" or human body suits to hide their appearance. Right?
2/18/2005 UFOs (abcnews | rense) Peter Jennings to do UFO Show: The UFO Phenomenon -- Seeing Is Believing. "Almost 50 percent of Americans, according to recent polls, and millions of people elsewhere in the world believe that UFOs are real. For many it is a deeply held belief."
You mean 1/2 of American's don't believe some flying objects are unidentified? Amazing! Of COURSE there are unidentified flying objects. What Jennings won't say is that man made circular shaped aircraft have been around since the 1930's. Yawn. Oh well. Below is an example of a man-made jet-engine-powered flying saucer from fifty years ago ( 1955 ) by a French aerospace designer. This preliminary wood (if you say so, looks like metal) 3/5th scale jet powered prototype in the Couzinet factory at Levallois-Perret supposedly never lifted off the ground. Really? The photos show Couzinet's "Multiple wing aircraft" RC-360 with the wings rotating.
This one does: "On May 10, 1989 Dr. Moller flew the M200X for the International Press. Since then the M200X has made over 200 successful flights." In "1983 Dr. Paul S. Moller moved his team into a newly built 35,000-sq. ft. facility in Davis, CA." Has one and only one human in the last 100 years accomplished stable flight with a circular aircraft? I wouldn't bet on it.
So, sure, there may be aliens (for example, the insectoids) ... or time travelers, or interdimensional shadow people or inner earth dwellers, or Gods from the planet Spork. Have it your way. The most simple and logical explanation is not always correct... but shouldn't we start there? Humans can be highly inventive and at times highly deceptive. See our UFO Collection for maps, pictures, videos, theories, and UFO news. Xenophilia.com: true strange stuff.
2/17/2005 UFOs. (mercury) Sightings Continue, Mystery Deepens. A saucer shaped large object was seen hovering four days ago (Monday night) by three people in Brighton, Australia above the Midland Highway, near the Bothwell turnoff.
"The woman, who said she was not one to believe in aliens, said the object was about half the size of a house and had one red pulsating light on one side and a similar blue light on the other. They had pulled over and got out of the car, and within minutes the object was hovering about 30m (~100 feet) above the ground less than 300m (~1000 ft) away. She said the craft was shaped like an AFL football as it came towards them, but when it was closer she guessed it was saucer shaped."
2/17/2005 UFOs. Try the "official website for Nick Pope, the Ministry of Defenseofficial who was responsible for researching and investigating UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles, cattle mutilations and other strange phenomena."
See our UFO article for some angles even Nick might not have considered.
1/25/2005 UFO Fukuoka (Japan) residents mistake vapor trail for UFO "Residents saw the unusual orange object in the sky on Sunday evening, and began phoning the Fukuoka District Meteorological Observatory to ask what it was. As the calls continued, officials checked it and found that it was actually an aircraft vapor trail that had been lit up by the late afternoon sun. Observatory officials said vapor trails can suddenly be cut off due to the amount of moisture in the air, creating the appearance of a comet tail.
"It's actually something that happens a lot. There's no need to worry," a worker at the observatory said. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Jan. 24, 2005)
1/12/2005 UFO: (PopularMechanics) The Central Intelligence Agency says it has finally come clean about UFOs. To absolutely no one's surprise, it knew more than it ever let on.
"The government kept the UFO myth alive to disguise the embarrassing fact that during the hottest days of the Cold War, America's two most secret intelligence gathering assets" the A-12 and SR-71 spyplanes "flew toward hostile terrain with the equivalent of cow bells dangling from their necks. ... What better way to hide extraordinary aircraft than to wrap them in the compelling fiction of aliens?"
The beauty of information fog is that it lasts a long time. "Yeah, sure. Now they are trying to cover up the truth about the aliens by saying UFO sightings were just spyplanes. Ha! You expect us to believe that?"
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The actress has again taken aim at the TV newsman following his blast, saying 'This was not just about me; it was saying, insulting women that are out there doing this on their own.'
Jennifer Aniston is refusing to let her feud with TV newsman Bill O'Reilly peter out, insisting what the outspoken broadcaster said about her was deeply insulting. The actress has already responded to O'Reilly's recent on-air comments, in which he branded her "destructive to our society" for praising artificial insemination - the topic of her new film "The Switch".
The news anchor took aim at Aniston on his show "The O'Reilly Factor" earlier this month by accusing her of "diminishing the role of the dad". He ranted, "Dads bring a psychology to children that is in this society, I believe, under-emphasized. I think men get hosed all day long in the parental arena."
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And she isn't leaving it there - during a breakfast TV chat in America on Thursday, August 19, Aniston added, "I never actually thought that my name and that name (Bill O'Reilly) would ever be in one sentence. He said I was actually glorifying 12-year-olds going out there and getting knocked up and doing it by themselves because that's what I like to preach!"
"People say things about me all the time and you just go, 'Whatever... ,' but this was not just about me; it was saying, insulting women that are out there doing this on their own. My mother was single... It doesn't always start out that way, but, it happens."
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You may remember her as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo's neighbor Carolyn Appleby. Doris Singleton, who appeared on about 10 episodes of the 1950s show, died Tuesday in Los Angeles, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She was 92.
Obit: 'My Three Sons' brother Don Grady dies
Lucie Arnaz, the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, confirmed the news on her Facebook page, writing: "A day of saying hasta luego to two great ladies, Nora Ephron and Doris Singleton. May they both fly swiftly heavenward and enjoy a blissful rest for jobs well done down here. They were loved and appreciated and will be missed."
A native of New York City, Singleton appeared on many other classic TV shows, including The Great Gildersleeve, Hogan's Heroes, My Three Sons (amazingly, as two recurring characters), Hazel, The Munsters, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Fugitive, The F.B.I., Marcus Welby, M.D., Phyllis, Days of Our Lives and Dynasty.
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