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Car seat safety isn't child's play. Understand 10 common mistakes parents make when installing and using car seats.
Car seat safety is crucial for protecting your child during travel, but knowing how to safely buckle up your child as he or she grows can be difficult. Check out 10 common mistakes parents often make when it comes to car seat safety — and how to avoid them.
If you're considering a used car seat for your child, make sure the car seat:
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If it's necessary for a child to travel in a vehicle with only one row of seats, deactivate the front air bags or install a power switch to prevent air bag deployment during a crash.
If you're placing only one car seat in the back seat, install it in the center of the seat — if a good fit is possible — rather than next to a door to minimize the risk of injury during a crash.
A car seat is designed to protect your child during travel. It's not for use as a replacement crib in your home. A 2009 study showed that sitting upright in a car seat might compress a newborn's chest and lead to lower levels of oxygen. Even mild airway obstruction can impair a child's development.
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Connellsville announces plans for July 3 fireworks display
The Greater Connellsville Chamber of Commerce will hold an Independence Day celebration on July 3 with fun for the whole family and a giant fireworks display.
"Buck Newell, the owner of Keystone Fireworks in Dunbar, has kept the July 3 date for the chamber for quite a few years now, and we appreciate it. Our longtime office manager, June Newill, had asked him to do that. June is gone now, but the date still stands. The downtown celebration and the fireworks will both be bigger than last year," said Bill Fiesta, chamber immediate past president.
"This is a wonderful community event. There will be a nice variety of vendors and activities for the children, so we hope that we have a good turnout from the community," said Michael Edwards, chamber board member.
The chamber will sell hot dogs, snow cones, cotton candy, popcorn, floats, fried dough and drinks.
Seth The Balloon Dude will create balloon creations for kids, and a face painter will also be at the event. Children's activities will be provided by Echo Child Development and other child care agencies.
A vendor selling glow necklaces will donate all proceeds to the American Cancer Society Relay For Life. Domino's Pizza will have a booth. Coordinated 360 will provide music.
"The chamber is so excited to be hosting the 10th annual fireworks. We are proud to announce Somerset Trust Company as our gold sponsor for the event this year donating $3,000 toward the fireworks display. What a great addition Somerset Trust Company will be to the Connellsville business community," said Leah Bierer, chamber vice president.
The chamber will hold all festivities before the fireworks on Arch Street, in front of City Hall. There will be food booths, children's activities, informational booths and live entertainment, Bierer said.
"This will prove to be a great family event for Connellsville," Bierer said.
"This will be my first July 3 celebration with the chamber, and I'm excited to see how it all turns out. We are expecting a spectacular fireworks display with all of the generous monetary donations this year," said Ronn Hall, chamber office manager.
The event kicks off at 6 p.m. Fireworks start at 9:30 p.m. For more information, call the chamber office at 724-628-5500.
Nancy Henry is a freelance writer.

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USERS of a meals on wheels service in Blackburn and Darwen face a price hike of almost £2 per meal as a council subsidy comes to an end.
Blackburn with Darwen Council has a contract with Blackpool-based ICare to provide the service in the borough.
The council pays £1.90 towards the £4.80 price of a two-course meal, but the contract will not be renewed when it ends on March 31.
Those wishing to continue buying meals from ICare will have to pay the full price of £4.80.
But people who do not wish to pay the full price have been given a range of options by the council, which has linked up with Blackburn charity Care Network.
A spokesman for ICare said: "We will be charging no more than the price previously charged with the subsidy.
"At this amount, including overheads and staffing, we will be making minimal profit as a business.
"We want to provide continuity for those who wish to receive the hot meal, and we appreciate these are difficult times all round for everyone."
Coun Mohammed Khan, executive member for health and social care, said: "Meals on wheels is an important service, so I am pleased we have been able to work with Care Network, who will provide residents with a range of options to make sure they can continue to receive nutr-itious food in a manner that fits their needs.
"We are committed to giving people more choice, and our work with the Care Net-work fits in with that commitment.
"We are in extremely challenging times financially, so we have to find ways of working innovatively to ensure residents' needs are being met within the funding we have available."
Options open to people who wish to stop using the service provided by ICare include:
- Frozen meal delivery service, with prices ranging from £2.30 to £5.75, plus delivery charge
- Grocery delivery service for those who wish to prepare their own meals
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- Assisted shopping, where people are taken to the supermarket to choose what they want People wishing to access any of those services can call Care Network on 01254 507255.


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Restoration Work at Little River Salt Marsh Begins
North Hampton, NH – The N.H. Coastal Program at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services and the Rockingham County Conservation District announce the start of restoration work at the Little River Salt Marsh. The goal of the project is to restore tidal flow to degraded portions of the salt marsh by excavating 2,000 feet of tidal channel.
The work builds on a project completed nine years ago, when two undersized culverts were replaced under Route 1A. The new culverts restored tidal flow to many areas of the marsh, but the western section continues to suffer from poor drainage and low tidal connectivity.
The standing water that remains trapped is a mosquito breeding haven, causing concern among local landowners and town officials. Project work will help alleviate this problem by making habitat for fish, such as mummichogs and sticklebacks, which feast on mosquito larvae.
"Past salt marsh restoration projects in New Hampshire have shown that if you build it, they will come," said Coastal Program Restoration Coordinator Kevin Lucey, referring to the estuarine fish that prey upon mosquitoes. "This project aims to lessen mosquito problems in certain areas of the marsh by enhancing existing or creating new tidal creeks," he said.
"The great thing about this project is that it not only will help control pests that directly affect humans, but it will also build on previous efforts to control common reed, an invasive plant in the marsh," said Rockingham County Conservation District Ecologist and District Manager Lenny Lord. "The increased tidal influx will promote the establishment of cord grass and salt marsh hay, two keystone species of the tidal marsh, while helping to suppress the common reed, leading to increased species diversity and ecological integrity of the system," he said.
Total project cost is $80,193, including designs, permitting, and implementation. Additional partners are the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and the town of North Hampton.
The Little River Salt Marsh lies between Little Boar's Head in North Hampton and a rocky headland just south of North Shore Road in Hampton.
For more information about this project, please contact Kevin Lucey, Restoration Coordinator for the NH Coastal Program at DES at (603) 559-0026.
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What is a Dizzy Monkey, you ask?
It's someone crazy enough to run the Dizzy Fifties Trail Run (50k, 40M, 50M) in Huntsville Alabama on Saturday and then haul ass up to Nashville Tennessee and run the hills in the Flying Monkey Marathon on the next day! It makes for one wild weekend in November.
I know Graham Gallemore has done this feat multiple times (the last 4 years in a row, I believe).
I know I've done it once, back in 2010, and am planning a comeback in 2013!
I'm aware there are a few other runners who have also done both races. But, I'd like to know exactly who and when?
Who else belongs in this troupe of Dizzy Monkeys???
Srlopez did it in, I think, 2011.
More than a handful and less than dozen.
Rick Caffey, Karl Kersey, Paul Arnette (at least once or twice)
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North American Congressional Army (NACA or Nay-Say)
Society/ Organizations (Combative) (World Wide)
's comment on 2009-03-31 11:55 PM
Hey A.R.
I see why you never submitted this. It is a mess and likely useless. If you were to write up the cultures or even the food maybe that would be useful but one large write up of an entire culture from their history to what they like to have for dinner is useless I think. I think most everyone will agree that roleplayers just need a handful details they can hold onto about a culture.
Drinks a clear liquor with most meals
Wears fur hats.
Pale and fair haired with high cheek bones.
Fatalistic, stoic and cynical.
Preferred weapon is the war hammer.
There you go, you have Russians.
Maybe, if you ever get around to it, you should break this up.
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Constellation Myth
Systems (Knowledge/Lore) (Defining)
's comment on 2009-04-17 12:58 AM
i never thought of his or voted on it. how can we have all these game worlds without knowing the stars...truly we spend too much time in books and online.
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Fire Flies
Lifeforms (Fauna) (Forest/ Jungle)
's comment on 2009-10-11 07:26 PM
Hey Checka,
A great idea submitted without an overkill of detail. I think I will us them.
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Prometheus Amulet
Items (Armor) (Non-Magical)
's comment on 2009-10-13 08:45 PM
Hey Axle,
I think you are putting an undue burden on this piece. Why should stuff have to follow physical laws, why can't it just be a cool idea? It is for a game after all, will it have to follow dice laws? How many physical laws do they break in Star Wars or Star Trek? I think this is fun piece and it can be useful. 5/5.
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Items (Wand/Staff/ Arcane) (Magical)
's comment on 2009-10-11 07:17 PM
Hey all,
Months and months away from this place and I come back to find a truly exceptional submission such as this one. This has excellent use of parrells and very concrete descriptions of both actions and objects. (Although it does remind me of peter pan, did they orginally try to stick the soul on with soap?)
Excellent work,
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Quicksilver LTCAM 4-12
Items (Armor) (Combat)
's comment on 2009-10-11 07:22 PM
Hey all,
The art really makes this one worth while. So when you exit this thing, do you slide from the groin area of the suit covered in fluid? I will assume that is the case, and give this the 5 that imagery diserves.
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Glider Bombs
Items (Transports) (Combat)
's comment on 2009-10-13 08:58 PM
Hey Axle,
Nice to see the sword of techno babble cuts both ways. Well done Valadaar. See it doesn't matter if you address his points or not, or if his points are valid. Gaming is done in an agreed upon reality. If everyone agree glider bombs work, then they work. One question, what do you mean by "Christmas package type effect"?
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The Order of the Single Cut-Iota Company
NPCs (Extras-Horde) (Combative)
's comment on 2009-04-08 07:24 PM
Okay AR,
I gave you a 1 and you deleted it. But you took some of my advice, changed this to an NPC, fixed SOME of the typos and MJS says it is okay. So I will give you the thumbs up.
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Pinker and Strotz
Society/ Organizations (Mercantile) (Regional)
's comment on 2009-04-08 07:27 PM
This is a great little story, and the feed back and contributions have made it even better. I will give you a 5 on this but let me know if you don't want me to vote on your work anymore. I will understand.
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The Haven of Voices
Locations (Establishment) (Space)
's comment on 2009-04-05 05:20 PM
Hey Echo,
I read this last week and didn't comment on it. But since you really seem to want a comment on it I will oblige you. I think there are good things here, but they are too mixed up to be much use, and it wasn't a particularly interesting read. You spend too much time on the Golden Path stuff. I understand it is important plot device to explain why this version of Babylon 5 is safe, but it is over expanded upon. (Also Goldenpath?, sounds too much like a fetish movie) The descripition of the station is also really lacking. You list a few facts about the station but don't give us more than independent ideas about things such as the robots and the race specific areas. I was left wanting for a sense of life on the station. Perhaps a day-in-the-life on Haven type thing thread through the post would help me get a handle on the station as a place PCs can interact with and not just as a political or military mark on a map. Two subs (written by best buds) I have read use a nice and condensed method for portraying this
Moonhunter's Norhold sub is slim and not overly developed but it gives some basic information about the city that would enhance any readers or PCs sense of "being there". He describes the corridors, the doors and where people eat and hang out. You're second to last paragraph gets at this, but fails to paint a real picture of a scene. Again it just gives facts. Moonhunter's Norhold allows me to see the door, to move 90 paces down the low hall and see the N in the floor of the Central hall.
A good post that takes another tact is
Here axlerowes describes an island city. I have no idea what a single building on the island looks like (except maybe a windmill), but his entire description is about Character interaction with the setting. Where to eat, where to sleep, where to find a whore etc. Where you take third person view of the station, axlerowes takes an almost second person perspective. Nothing you wrote draws me into the locale within your submission.
So again what is the post about? Is it about the station? Is it about the political and geographical forces that facilitated the construction and current political role of this station? Is it about why one would go to this station? All those fold into one another yes, but one of those should be the central theme of essay or piece. Right now I have to give this one the thumbs down. I may change my vote later.
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The Haven of Voices
Locations (Establishment) (Space)
's comment on 2009-04-06 10:07 PM
Hey Valad,
I have been waiting all day to reply to this one, but I don't log on at work.
"the best anyone can say is it is unclear to them."
I shared this with my co-workers and they all thought it was hilarious. That was a direct quote from E.B. White's "Elements of Style" isn't it?
But I digress. You didn't really mean that, what you meant is that AR is a smug bastard for suggesting such a rewrite. Additionally, you are saying by understanding the 1st paragraph you are better then AR. Well AR did sound like a smug bastard and his comments were/are useless. If you want to rewrite something smart guy try this.
Right now we are putting together the manual for a new kitchen appliance, and when we write.
"The local mineral content on the local water source may effect the lifetime of this item."
"The lifetime of this item may be adversely effected by use in hard water conditions."
"The formation of mineral deposits around the (can't share) of this item will prevent it from working properly. Use of this item in areas serviced by hard water will result in the formation of the afore mentioned mineral deposits. Regular cleaning of the ***** will prevent the formation of damaging mineral deposits."
"The **** should be inspected and cleaned regularly."
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The Haven of Voices
Locations (Establishment) (Space)
's comment on 2009-04-08 07:35 PM
Echo and Valad you killed any discussion we could have had about the prose here by making this about whether or not one can even critize prose.
Echo if you think this work is perfect and with out need for revision then why ask for comments, Why not just say
I present a perfect work. Or you could say I present a work and I will except advice from a,b and c, but no one else. Then you bully poor little AR into an apology.
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Heather's Corpse Ship
Items (Other) (Magical)
's comment on 2009-04-17 12:53 AM
This I feel like I should vote on. It really is a good one. This is a solid spell. But really stop being passive aggressive.
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Cloak of Pebbles
Items (Clothes) (Magical)
's comment on 2009-03-31 11:26 PM
I had to break my 1 or 5 rule for this one. Cause it wasn't horrible it was just lame. I can't see using this item and it wasn't an enjoyable read.
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Cloak of Pebbles
Items (Clothes) (Magical)
's comment on 2009-04-05 02:48 PM
Hey Scras,
Nice text type, well I gave this one a 2/5 cause, but other than that I have given posts a 1 or 5. And I think I have only given you 5s. So you are welcome.
I still think this is little more than a "wouldn't this be cool item".
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Never-Burning Torch
Items (Wand/Staff/ Arcane) (Magical)
's comment on 2009-03-26 12:32 AM
Hey all,
If you poke a buddist monk with it will they go out?
nice stuff,
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SCIV (Land Shark) population control vehicle
Items (Transports) (Combat)
's comment on 2009-03-23 10:30 PM
Hey AR,
You should give this tank a vaginal name to counter Echo's penis tank. I like the idea though, it is nice to have something you can really use to manage your PCs. There isn't much you can do with tank post is there?
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Scorpio 2.4 Hovertank
Items (Other) (Combat)
's comment on 2009-03-23 10:22 PM
Hey all,
Wouldn't you be compensating for something by putting a big gun on your tank? I mean this whole post seems to be a dick metaphor, this is a huge ram rod with a wam-bam attitude. No, this whole post is about one guys desire to "give it" to someone quickly and get out of there. You should rename the tank the bachelor.
Great work 5/5
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Scorpio 2.4 Hovertank
Items (Other) (Combat)
's comment on 2009-03-23 11:45 PM
"Any pretense at being someone's ego booster is blown when one observes the (in comparison) huge particle projector cannon which is as long as the hovertank itself, mounted on a rotating platform"
hey man he opened the door.
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The Island and Firth of Crueloar
Locations (City) (Water)
's comment on 2009-03-19 01:37 AM
hey all,
I really like this, full of typos, but we aren't supposed to care about that are we? I was just thinking about a plot idea. Th punkcasher had an idea for goblin labor unions, and I think that could apply here. The Orc's seem to be getting the scat end of the stick and then hit with the other end. What if they form a union.
Why don't they write whole DnD books like travel guides anyway? I mean there is a reason travel guides have that format, it makes it easier to use right? You should do submissions like this for your whole world. Or do you just make all that other stuff up to fit with this setting?
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Paul Krugman highlights the Atlanta Fed's very interesting work on a 'sticky price' CPI. It may sometimes seem like every regional Fed bank has its own custom inflation measure (the Dallas Fed has the trimmed-mean and Cleveland produces the median CPI) and those come on top of numerous unrefined measures of price rises: the CPI, PCE, core PCE, PCE at market prices etc.
But I'd say that Fed officials place almost equal emphasis on all of them. The refinements are all efforts to get closer to the 'true' state of inflationary pressures but each has its potential idiosyncracies. Looking at all of them makes the trend clearer.
Here is one Fed official, Dave Altig, research director at the Atlanta Fed, breaking down his thought process. For further evidence here is one of chairman Ben Bernanke's charts from a November speech: Read more


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"Today is an inflection point for Microsoft, as well as the security industry," Katie Moussouris, senior security strategist, Microsoft Security Research Center, wrote in a blog post. "We are making this shift in order to learn about these issues earlier and to increase the win-win between Microsoft's customers and the security researcher community."
Microsoft is offering three bug bounty programs. Through its Mitigation Bypass Bounty program, the company will pay up to $100,000 for novel exploitation techniques against protections built into the latest version of Windows. In BlueHat Bonus For Defense, Microsoft will pay up to $50,000 for defensive ideas that accompany a qualifying submission to the Mitigation Bypass Bounty program.
The third program will pay up to $11,000 for researchers who find critical vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer Preview on Windows 8.1 Preview. While the other two programs will be ongoing, this one will run a limited time, from June 26 through July 26. Details are available here.
While Microsoft dragged its heels in rolling out a bug bounty program, other companies like Google and Mozilla have been offering security researchers cash rewards for a few years now. Google launched its bug bounty program in 2010 and earlier this month increased its payout for cross-site scripting bugs to $7,500, up from $3,133, and will now pay $7,500 instead of $5,000 for significant authentication bypass/information leaks. Other companies offering bug bounties include Facebook and Paypal.
In a blog post, Chris Wysopal, co-founder and CTO at application security company Veracode, said he was a little surprised it took Microsoft this long to create a bug bounty program. But he called Microsoft's effort a second-generation bug bounty program.
"With the rise of sandboxes for apps and improvements in exploit mitigations in compilers and OSes we are seeing that mitigation bypasses are where all the real action is," he wrote of the Mitigation Bypass Bounty program. "By recognizing this, Microsoft has built a better bounty program. By fixing mitigation bypass vulnerabilities Microsoft can help secure software written by other vendors for the Windows platform. So in a way this is a platform bug bounty program, not just a program for one vendor."
By paying bounties for Internet Explorer 11 bugs only for a 30-day beta period, Microsoft is incenting bug disclosure before the product is in wide use, Wysopal wrote. "Researchers often gripe that they are performing QA for the vendor and they should get paid. A bug bounty program during beta makes this a reality," he wrote.
Wysopal noted that vendor bug bounty programs like Microsoft's are forced to compete with the open market for vulnerabilities, where researchers sell exploits to governments--or anyone with cash--instead of informing the vendor. "The growth of this market and its potential to grow more is part of the equation any vendor uses to decide whether or not to have a bounty program and what to set bounty values at," he noted.


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Super Fox and Mr Brown Bear
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Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
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Currently in college studying a BTEC Art and Design Course. I am concentrating more on the illustrative design area as that's what I want to do as a career after (hopefully) getting into Brighton University.
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Long beach sofa 3 seater with chaise-longue Franco salotti
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The official policy for this forum is that we endorse cruise line rules for personal beverages, which means we don't allow messages which promote bringing liquor aboard. As long as this thread doesn't go there, we'll leave it open.
Royal Caribbean's policy is the most strict. It can be viewed
I've personally not heard of anyone being kicked off the ship for breaking the rules. I imagine it would depend on the severity of the attempt, the level of deception, the amount.
However I have personally known of guests who were summoned to the security area, where their luggage had been quarantined because they suspected it contained booze. They were required to open it, and security took the liquor, and I imagine a record of the attempt was logged. It was returned to them at the end of the cruise.
If luggage is unlocked they don't need you to be present. I don't know if RCI does it, but Carnival does. One of our suitcases was opened and searched by Carnival. It didn't have any prohibited items in it, but they thought it might. When we opened that bag there was a letter on top of the clothes saying they had searched it.
All luggage is x-rayed, using high end equipment as is used by TSA.
Personally, I think it should be this way: If a bottle of liquor in it's original container is identified, confiscate it. If someone is using a rumrunner, beer bra, or has poured booze into a mouthwash bottle, they can no longer claim ignorance of the rule. I'd be fine with their being denied boarding. A couple object lessons like that and word gets around.
Another thing to note: in many U.S. jurisdictions, carrying liquor around in public in a non-original container is a misdemeanor. Even having the seal broken on the original bottle can be against the law.
A rum and coke (or any similar mixed drink) goes for around $6. Close to $7 once the 15% automatic gratuity is added.
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Sat Mar 3, 2012, 08:39 PM
Bonobo (29,130 posts)
Now it is being openly admitted that the Saudis did it and "we don't want to know."
Everyone knows it.
But they don't want to "officially" know it. The Obama admin is squelching a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia on the grounds of "international immunity" whatever that is and this weasel in the above clip named Steven Rattner says that we should just forget about it because they supply our oil and we need them.
Who is Steven Rattner?
* Lead auto advisor ("car czar" in the US Treasury Department under President Obama.
*Founding principal of Quadrangle Group, a global private equity firm specializing in the media
*Former Deputy Chairman and Deputy CEO at Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and Lazard Freres & Co.,
*Current chairman of investment firm that manages Mayor Bloomberg's personal assets.
So it is now openly admitted that the US doesn't want to know.
Is it still a "conspiracy theory" to say that Bin Laden's relatives were protected and hustled out of the country?
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Response to Bonobo (Original post)
Sat Mar 3, 2012, 08:54 PM
OffWithTheirHeads (10,337 posts)
1. Gee, I wonder who else was in on it?
Response to Bonobo (Original post)
Sat Mar 3, 2012, 10:13 PM
Sanity Claws (16,138 posts)
2. They sounded so calm after that bombshell was dropped
Not one of them pointed out that the Bush administration the investigation into the Saudi involvement and how this illustrates their lack of patriotism, if not outright treason.
Anytime anyone pointed to anything other than the official story, these same stooges called them conspiracy theory nuts.
Response to Sanity Claws (Reply #2)
Sat Mar 3, 2012, 10:36 PM
Bonobo (29,130 posts)
3. What about the hundreds of thousands of casualties...
in the US armed forces?
They joined to get justice for the 9/11 victims.
How do you think THEY feel that the US govt. was protecting the real bad guys?
And why, why, WHY are we discussing this in a "creative speculation" dungeon along with UFO theories???
Response to Bonobo (Reply #3)
Sat Mar 3, 2012, 10:51 PM
frogmarch (10,175 posts)
4. Oh, like
UFO theories abound here. The most recent OP pertaining to anything remotely connected to UFOs was my post about the upcoming Science Channel series pertaining to the possibility of life on other planets. No one even commented on the thread.
By the way, some UFO theories make as much sense as many of the other theories posted here.
Response to frogmarch (Reply #4)
Sat Mar 3, 2012, 10:54 PM
Bonobo (29,130 posts)
5. The point I was trying to make (and did poorly) was...
that THIS is not "creative speculation".
Response to Bonobo (Reply #5)
Sat Mar 3, 2012, 11:03 PM
frogmarch (10,175 posts)
6. Got it. nt
Response to Sanity Claws (Reply #2)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 05:10 AM
William Seger (7,380 posts)
7. Huh? There's no vindication for conspiracy theory nuts in this story
... unless you're claiming that Saudis rigged the towers for controlled demolition. I defy you to find a single instance where someone who speculated about Saudi involvement in the plot to hijack planes and crash them into buildings was called a conspiracy theory nut. The 26 pages redacted from the 9/11 Commission Report have commonly been believed to concern that very matter, right from the day it was published.
Actually, this "news" illustrates how conspiracy theory nuts have done nothing but distract from the serious questions about 9/11, so you insult people's intelligence by trying to claim any vindication from it.
Response to Bonobo (Original post)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 06:32 AM
William Seger (7,380 posts)
8. "Is it still a 'conspiracy theory' to say ..."
> "... that Bin Laden's relatives were protected and hustled out of the country?"
When was that ever called a "conspiracy theory?"
If any of bin Laden's relatives were involved in the plot, wouldn't you expect that they would have simply left the country before the attack, rather than depend on being "protected and hustled out?"
Response to William Seger (Reply #8)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 06:47 AM
Bonobo (29,130 posts)
9. So it has been widely known and reported that...
the Saudi Govt. was behind 9/11 attacks AND the US govt. colluded to sneak out Saudis quickly after the incident?
This implies that there were people secretly talking to each other and law enforcement officials and winking and nodding as the Saudi people were swished away to safety.
Furthermore, it implies collusion with the Saudi govt. to get them out and secrecy involving all above points/
Bullshit and revise all you want, but there were plenty that would have whined that that was CT stuff.
Response to Bonobo (Reply #9)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 11:23 AM
William Seger (7,380 posts)
13. "Bullshit and revise" huh?
You didn't answer my questions. Instead, you say:
> So it has been widely known and reported that... the Saudi Govt. was behind 9/11 attacks AND the US govt. colluded to sneak out Saudis quickly after the incident?
Spin rejected. It has been widely speculated that some members of the huge royal family may have financed the operation, and the evacuation of bin Laden family members didn't remain secret for very long at all. If you were unaware of that, that's not my fault -- I didn't "bullshit and revise" anything. And again, I doubt that you can point to a single instance of someone who "whined that that was CT stuff."
> Furthermore, it implies collusion with the Saudi govt. to get them out and secrecy involving all above points
What "collusion with the Saudi govt." does it imply, and how can you possibly tie that into any of the theories promulgated by the "truth movement?"
Let's take it one step at a time: Do you now believe that 19 radical Islamists hijacked four planes and crashed them into three buildings?
Response to William Seger (Reply #13)
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 04:11 AM
Bonobo (29,130 posts)
21. What do you mean "now"? I never denied it. But it was 2 buildings, not 3.
Now my question:
Do you admit there was likely collusion between the Saudi Govt. and US officials (CIA, white house) in which it was agreed to hide/whitewash their involvement in 9/11?
Response to Bonobo (Reply #21)
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 10:01 AM
William Seger (7,380 posts)
23. No, it was 3 buildings, and no, there was no need for any collusion
There was no need to even know for sure that there were any Saudis involved to make the political decision to not pursue the issue.
Response to William Seger (Reply #23)
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 10:29 AM
Bonobo (29,130 posts)
24. Yes, 3. I thought you were referring (for some reason) to WT7.
"There was no need to even know for sure that there were any Saudis involved to make the political decision to not pursue the issue. "
That is certainly ducking the issue of whether or not there was a concerted effort and collusion between countries and agencies to decide whether to and how to bury whitewash it.
Response to Bonobo (Reply #24)
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 10:57 AM
William Seger (7,380 posts)
25. "ducking the issue?"
As I said, I see no logical reason for believing that any collusion was necessary, and you have certainly not provided any, nor have you presented any evidence that collusion occurred. What "issue" are you claiming I'm "ducking?" Seems to me there's nothing else to be said about it unless and until you can substantiate your claim.
Response to William Seger (Reply #25)
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 11:10 AM
Bonobo (29,130 posts)
26. How do you propose the CIA got the idea
to whisk important Saudi people out of the country?
Did they all just decide to do it on their own?
How do you suppose media reports about Saudi involvement didn't come out all this time we were busy fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq as payback for 9/11 (in many people's eyes)
Do you imagine there was no pulling of strings, calling in of favors from Saudi bigwigs?
Response to Bonobo (Reply #26)
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 12:02 PM
William Seger (7,380 posts)
27. Really?
> How do you propose the CIA got the idea to whisk important Saudi people out of the country?
For starters, you haven't demonstrated that it was the CIA rather than the State Department, and furthermore I would suppose they "got the idea" that bin Laden's family would be in danger of retribution without any coaxing. In the absence of any real information, my first guess would be that someone in the family requested assistance from the State Department. But that reminds me, you didn't respond to my point that I would have expected any bin Ladens who knew about the attack to have already left the country before 9/11.
> How do you suppose media reports about Saudi involvement didn't come out all this time we were busy fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq as payback for 9/11 (in many people's eyes)
I'm not sure where you've been, but speculation about Saudi involvement has been bubbling since day one, but "media reports" typically involve facts, not speculations.
> Do you imagine there was no pulling of strings, calling in of favors from Saudi bigwigs?
As I said, I see no reason why that was a prerequisite for the Bush administration and the 9/11 Commission to decide to avoid the issue, i.e. there was no need whatsoever for Saudis to remind us how dependent we are on both their oil and their cooperation in the Middle East.
Response to Bonobo (Reply #9)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 03:25 PM
jberryhill (47,665 posts)
16. "the Saudi govt."
Saudi Arabia is run by a large royal family headed for quite some time by a king who was quite ill. There has always been intrigue in the House of Saud, and treating the members thereof as if they are interchangeable oversimplifies the picture.
There has never been any serious dispute that the Saudi royal family is a mixed bag. As a group, they are not of one mind on just about anything. Many of them would just as soon stab one of their cousins in the back, than cooperate with them on anything.
Of course there was involvement of Saudis in 9/11. Who has ever denied that?
Response to jberryhill (Reply #16)
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 04:12 AM
Bonobo (29,130 posts)
22. So then...
Do you admit there was likely collusion between the Saudi Govt. and US officials (CIA, white house) in which it was agreed to hide/whitewash their involvement in 9/11?
Response to Bonobo (Reply #22)
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 02:53 PM
jberryhill (47,665 posts)
28. A piece of the 9/11 commission report was redacted
...and likely deals with information about various Saudi connections. That's no huge surprise either.
How one gets from there to "likely collusion between the Saudi Govt and US officials in which it was agreed to hide/whitewash their involvement in 9/11", is something of a leap.
Response to jberryhill (Reply #28)
Mon Mar 5, 2012, 04:13 PM
noise (2,392 posts)
29. Actually the 28 pages were redacted from the
Joint Inquiry report. History Commons summarized Philip Shenon's reporting of behind the scenes 9/11 Commission conduct in regard to Saudi involvement:
In a late-night editing session, 9/11 Commission Executive Director Philip Zelikow and Dieter Snell, head of the Commission team investigating the 9/11 plot, delete sections of the 9/11 Commission Report linking two of the hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, to suspected Saudi government operatives.
The 9/11 Commission also relegated CIA withholding of information about al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar to a footnote. What is sad is the way some people cheerlead for the 9/11 Commission report while overlooking the commission's failure to provide a full account of 9/11. These aren't small issues. We are talking about withholding information about al Qaeda operatives linked to previous al Qaeda attacks and possible high level Saudi government involvement.
Response to Bonobo (Original post)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 07:09 AM
LARED (11,735 posts)
10. How did you come away with the notion that the "Saudis did it"?
The idea the agents of the Saudi government likely supported the 9/11 attacks in some form has been around for a long time and pretty much anyone that has anything other than a surface understanding of the plot or how things work in Saudi Arabia thinks this was highly plausible.
But there is a huge gulf between a Saudi government agent support (likely financial) and "they did it". It widely known that of the thousands of oil rich sheiks and princes (all government agents in the Saudi government structure) that quite a few support terrorism around the globe.
In my view this barely counts as news.
Response to LARED (Reply #10)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 08:42 AM
Bonobo (29,130 posts)
11. Bob Kerrey and Bob Graham seem to think so.
You say it barely counts as news?
You say there is a huge gulf between Saudi Govt. agent support and "they did it"?
Well, what the fuck would "they did it" look like to you if it wasn't sponsored by the government and farmed out to some for-hire types?
Do you think that unless it was done with box cutters stamped "Property of the Saudi Royal Family", then it wasn't done by the Saudis?
I am singularly unimpressed by the cyber yawns coming from you. If it is such yawn-worthy news, then were were all the protests that we were going after the wrong guys when we attacked Afghanistan simply because OBL lived there?
Response to Bonobo (Reply #11)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 10:15 AM
LARED (11,735 posts)
12. I think you fail to appreciate the structure of the Saudi "government"
SA is an absolute Monarchy. There are dozens of internal factions and around 7000 princes that control all facets of Saudi society. The Quran and Sunnah are it's "constitution". There is no accountability to the people. In short the King is the government. Unless you think the King sanctioned the attacks, claiming the "Saudis did it" is less then compelling.
I have little doubt there was a prince or lackey that helped fund or provided support for the attack. So I guess it's simply semantics that separate us.
Response to LARED (Reply #12)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 03:27 PM
noise (2,392 posts)
17. Graham has pointed to a Saudi network
that provided support for al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar. He has speculated that the other hijackers received similar support. Is it not worth knowing who in the Saudi royal family approved this? Graham has pointed to the Saudi embassy and funds from Prince Bandar's account. Should the public not be outraged by President Bush hanging out with Bandar while this incriminating lead was not fully investigated?
Anyone who has followed the coverage of 9/11 knows that the US media is for the most part completely full of shit. If the media truly wanted answers they would interview Rich Blee of Alec Station. He has answers to some of the big questions about 9/11. For one he could explain the Saudi role in regard to al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar.
Response to noise (Reply #17)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 04:48 PM
Rosa Luxemburg (28,624 posts)
19. Does that mean the Saudis had access to our military operations?
The way that the attacks were organized points to the fact that Saudis had access to our system somehow?
Response to noise (Reply #17)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 09:04 PM
LARED (11,735 posts)
20. Shouldn't this say...
Is it not worth knowing [strike]who in[/strike] if the Saudi royal family approved this?
I would say yes that's a worthwhile question.
Response to Bonobo (Original post)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 01:46 PM
Rosa Luxemburg (28,624 posts)
14. So why did Saudi Arabia want to help do the 911 attacks?
Response to Rosa Luxemburg (Reply #14)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 03:56 PM
noise (2,392 posts)
18. There are two popular theories
1)The protection money theory:
A former Clinton administration official has claimed-and US intelligence sources concurred-that at least two Saudi princes had been paying, on behalf of the Kingdom, what amounted to protection money since 1995. "The deal was," the former official said, "they would turn a blind eye to what he was doing elsewhere. 'You don't conduct operations here, and we won't disrupt them elsewhere.'"
2)They don't like us theory:
At the State Department, the director of the Office of the Coodinator for Counterterrorism concluded that the (Bin Laden) relationship with some royals went way beyond recreational pursuits. "We've got information about who's backing Bin Laden," Dick Gannon was saying by 1998, "and in a lot of cases it goes back to the royal family. There are certain factions of the royal family who just don't like us."
The media likes to talk of collective country agendas as if US and Saudi leaders were all of the same page with their citizens. Like the US public has any idea WTF Bush and Bandar talked about in secret. Look at the invasion of Iraq. How was that in the best interests of the US public? What we had was a small faction of insiders who manipulated the public into supporting their policy agenda. Perhaps a similar scenario played out with US and Saudi insiders in regard to 9/11.
Response to Bonobo (Original post)
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 03:16 PM
noise (2,392 posts)
15. Typically awful media coverage
The failure to properly investigate 9/11 indicates a sickening level of establishment corruption and contempt for the public.


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Though I did cause a bit of a kuffuffle. I work as a Merchandiser, which means I stock my company's particular product in other stores. Which also means I rarely work in my store, but have offices in 2 places not owned by my company.I am seen by said places as an independent being, seeing as I don't work for them and I have my own inventory and such to worry about.
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The US Dept of Education just released a report [PDF] on the effectiveness of online education. Abstract:
A systematic search of the research literature from 1996 through July 2008 identified more than a thousand empirical studies of online learning. Analysts screened these studies to find those that (a) contrasted an online to a face-to-face condition, (b) measured student learning outcomes, (c) used a rigorous research design, and (d) provided adequate information to calculate an effect size. As a result of this screening, 51 independent effects were identified that could be subjected to meta-analysis. The meta-analysis found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction. The difference between student outcomes for online and face-to-face classes—measured as the difference between treatment and control means, divided by the pooled standard deviation—was larger in those studies contrasting conditions that blended elements of online and face-to-face instruction with conditions taught entirely face-to-face. Analysts noted that these blended conditions often included additional learning time and instructional elements not received by students in control conditions. This finding suggests that the positive effects associated with blended learning should not be attributed to the media, per se. An unexpected finding was the small number of rigorous published studies contrasting online and face-to-face learning conditions for K–12 students. In light of this small corpus, caution is required in generalizing to the K–12 population because the results are derived for the most part from studies in other settings (e.g., medical training, higher education).
Did you catch that? The caveat, too? Let's look at some of the more interesting bullet points, excerpted from the executive summary:
Instruction combining online and face-to-face elements had a larger advantage relative to purely face-to-face instruction than did purely online instruction. ... An important issue to keep in mind in reviewing these findings is that many studies did not attempt to equate (a) all the curriculum materials, (b) aspects of pedagogy and (c) learning time in the treatment and control conditions. Indeed, some authors asserted that it would be impossible to have done so. Hence, the observed advantage for online learning in general, and blended learning conditions in particular, is not necessarily rooted in the media used per se and may reflect differences in content, pedagogy and learning time.
Studies in which learners in the online condition spent more time on task than students in the face-to-face condition found a greater benefit for online learning. The mean effect size for studies with more time spent by online learners was +0.46 compared with +0.19 for studies in which the learners in the face-to-face condition spent as much time or more on task (Q = 3.88, p < .05).
Effect sizes were larger for studies in which the online and face-to-face conditions varied in terms of curriculum materials and aspects of instructional approach in addition to the medium of instruction. Analysts examined the characteristics of the studies in the meta-analysis to ascertain whether features of the studies' methodologies could account for obtained effects. Six methodological variables were tested as potential moderators: (a) sample size, (b) type of knowledge tested, (c) strength of study design, (d) unit of assignment to condition, (e) instructor equivalence across conditions, and (f) equivalence of curriculum and instructional approach across conditions. Only equivalence of curriculum and instruction emerged as a significant moderator variable (Q = 5.40, p < .05). Studies in which analysts judged the curriculum and instruction to be identical or almost identical in online and face-to-face conditions had smaller effects than those studies where the two conditions varied in terms of multiple aspects of instruction (+0.20 compared with +0.42, respectively). Instruction could differ in terms of the way activities were organized (for example as group work in one condition and independent work in another) or in the inclusion of instructional resources (such as a simulation or instructor lectures) in one condition but not the other.
Blended and purely online learning conditions implemented within a single study generally result in similar student learning outcomes. When a study contrasts blended and purely online conditions, student learning is usually comparable across the two conditions.
Elements such as video or online quizzes do not appear to influence the amount that students learn in online classes. The research does not support the use of some frequently recommended online learning practices. Inclusion of more media in an online application does not appear to enhance learning. The practice of providing online quizzes does not seem to be more effective than other tactics such as assigning homework.
Online learning can be enhanced by giving learners control of their interactions with media and prompting learner reflection. Studies indicate that manipulations that trigger learner activity or learner reflection and self-monitoring of understanding are effective when students pursue online learning as individuals.
Providing guidance for learning for groups of students appears less successful than does using such mechanisms with individual learners. When groups of students are learning together online, support mechanisms such as guiding questions generally influence the way students interact, but not the amount they learn.
OK, so online learning is better when it requires more time on task, active learning, diverse ways of learning, et al.? Sounds familiar.
The report is definitely worth examining. It's not simply an "online is better" type of report: it truly delves into the issues regarding which methods show gains and why. It's not the medium that makes online learning better but the thoughtful, purposeful, and intentional instructional design decisions used to create the courses (a combination of time spent, curriculum, and pedagogy, according to the report).
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Middleweight Sergio Mora, a former junior middleweight titlist and first-season winner of "The Contender" reality series, signed Tuesday with promoter Lou DiBella.
"I have always respected Lou for his bold ways and honesty," Mora, known as "The Latin Snake," said. "Lou is very knowledgeable and experienced and he is passionate and really cares about his fighters and the sport as a whole. Having the opportunity to work with someone like Lou is a blessing and an honor.
"I want to fight the top 160-pounders in the world, and the best is Sergio Martinez, who just happens to also be promoted by Lou."
DiBella is heavily involved in the middleweight division. Besides promoting Martinez, the champion, he also works with contenders Matthew Macklin and Andy Lee, so having another solid middleweight on his roster made sense.
"It was a no-brainer of a signing," DiBella said.
Mora (24-3-2, 7 KOs), 32, of Los Angeles, is just 2-2 in his past four fights, but both losses were debatable decisions to Brian Vera. Mora also won his last fight, looking very good in a decision win against former European champion Grzegorz Proksa on June 28.
The rap on Mora for years is that he is anything but a crowd-pleasing fighter, but as he has gotten a little older he has slowed down a touch and also come to realize that if he wants to get another significant fight he is going to have to be a bit more entertaining. His recent fights have been more crowd-pleasing than earlier in his career.
"Sergio is going to get another good fight," DiBella said. "And I think he's become a more pleasing fighter. I thought he fought a great fight against Proksa and the fights with Vera were both pleasing and I thought he won at least one of them and neither of them were boring."
DiBella does not have a fight set for Mora yet but said he would fight in the fall.
"Say what you want, but Mora is, and has been for many years, one of the most skilled middleweights in the world," DiBella said.
In 2008, Mora outpointed the late Vernon Forrest to win a 154-pound world title, but he lost a unanimous decision and the belt in the immediate rematch later that year. Two fights later, Mora held the heavily favored Shane Mosley to a draw in September 2009. Mora won "The Contender" tournament and the $1 million grand prize in 2005.


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The Final Weapon takes viewers through the fast-moving odyssey of an aging warrior making a fatal choice upon his last battle. With Lou Reed appearing as 'The Holder' of the Final Weapon's secret verse and famed Taijiquan master, Ren Guangyi as 'Holder 1', the fast-moving film short is fueled by a stirring use of vintage music by Reed. Also starring Michael Woods, one of Hong Kong's most beloved film nemeses from the 1980s through the early 1990s. Woods came out of film retirement specifically to star as 'Protector 1'.
The Final Weapon is a 15 minute action drama about holding, passing, using, and protecting an ancient form of martial art that when employed, renders the user invincible for 20 minutes, after which he/she dies. Thus the film explores the question of who is more important - those who are given the fatal responsibility to use overwhelming power or those given the task of protecting it. Final Weapon offers a poetic expression of universal themes with diverse characters and a textured story that dramatizes the fatality and vitality that comes with truly determining ones own fate.
Inspired by the reality of weapons of mass destruction, Final Weapon brings to life the idea that there are those given the responsibility to use weapons such as nukes and those tasked with protecting such weapons. The question suggested by the film, in the context of martial arts, is who is more important - those who use such weapons or those who protect the weapons?
The Final Weapon was written and directed by Stephan Berwick, a Western pioneer of mainland China martial arts, who was an early 'foreign' actor in the Hong Kong action film renaissance of the 1980s, under the famed director, Yuen Woping and action star Donnie Yen. Berwick performed in memorable films, such as 'Tiger Cage' and the 'In the Line of Duty' series. The Final Weapon is his film and music directorial debut.
The Final Weapon was shot and edited in Minnesota and Wisconsin, in high definition, with a highly experienced and talented crew from the Twin Cities. The film was produced by Berwick and Jose Figueroa, in association with MInnesota-based production houses, Restraining Hollywood, Rolen Motion Pictures, and 185 Media. Sampson Rolen edited and colorized the film, the director of photography was Sam Fischer, and the make-up artist was Laura Hart, with costume advisory provided by Hollywood costume designer, Donna Berwick, who last designed the costumes for Spike Lee's 'Inside Man'.


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The Wall Street Journal has new details on the forthcoming Facebook IPO: the company may go public sometime in the spring, at which point the digital scrapbook of low-quality self-portraits framed by orthodontia advertisements could be valued at $100 billion. It would be one of the largest IPO's in history. (A Facebook flack remained mum.)
According to the Journal, more than 500 million people use Facebook every day. By some estimates, 450 million of them posted a status update concerning something of very limited interest within the last hour. Wait! Make that 450 million and one: we have some self-congratulating to do, having just written a blog post about Facebook without making even one Facebook pun. Zero! Count it!


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Brian D. Parsons. Handbook for the Amateur Cryptozoologist. Lulu, 2015. (Second edition)
Michael Newton. Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide. McFarland, 2015. (Reprint.)
Brian Parsons in an accomplished investigator who has been involved with a range of anomalous phenomena for twenty years. In Handbook for the Amateur Cryptozoologist he explains the techniques of investigation and warns how to avoid the pitfalls involved in such work. Although the book specifically concerns cryptozoology much of the advice given applies equally to subjects such as ufology or ghost investigation.
He begins by considering one VERY basic question: is cryptozoology actually a science? He explain that cryptozoology certainly involves using the scientific method, and hunting for unknown species can produce scientific discoveries, but concludes that currently cryptozoology cannot yet be considered a true science. This however does not preclude it from being conducted in a scientific manner.
He begins by considering one VERY basic question: is cryptozoology actually a science? He explain that cryptozoology certainly involves using the scientific method, and hunting for unknown species can produce scientific discoveries, but concludes that currently cryptozoology cannot yet be considered a true science. This however does not preclude it from being conducted in a scientific manner.
Although cryptozoology is an international pursuit this book is largely written from the perspective of an American researcher and there is an emphasis on Bigfoot and out-of-place big cat sightings, but this does not prevent it from being of value to investigators in Britain as well. In fact his discussion of the North American scene introduces the important distinction between out-of-place animals and the truly anomalous.
A particularly valuable chapter is his discussion of the techniques for interviewing witnesses, giving them the space to fully describe their experiences without either using leading questions, or to limit their responses to a series of yes/no answers. His advice to researchers to ask questions involving events beyond the immediate experience resembles John Keel's advice that ufologists should find out what witnesses had for breakfast, although Parsons explains the reason for this rather more clearly than Keel ever did!
His analysis of the difference between science and pseudoscience is good advice for fortean researchers generally, and he makes it clear that witnesses' reports can be critically analysed with having to call into question their honesty.
There is a section on the sort of equipment that a cryptozoologist might wish to take with them on investigations, which in some cases is more appropriate for the North American researcher - Britain gives little scope for trekking through deep forest in search of an out-of-place big cat - not in Surrey, anyway! However, the important point which he stresses is that simply using scientific equipment does not make you a scientist.
The book concludes with some examples of investigatory notes and interview questions, but these are not intended as a tick-box exercise, and the methodology behind them is fully explained.
In all an excellent little introduction to cryptozoological research, which would repay reading by those involved in other areas of anomaly research.
A massive paperback of nearly 600 pages and weighing in at over 3lb (1.3 kg) the Encylopedia of Cryptozoology is a contrast to the Handbook's slim 175 pages. With over 2700 entries the book cannot be described as anything but comprehensive, but many of the entries are just a few lines of uncorroborated and uninvestigated sighting reports, and in some ways they are comparable to the shorter entries in Magonia's INTCAT listings of 'entity' cases. The sources given do not trace back to the earliest available account as with INTCAT, and are usually just a reference to a generally available published source. In many cases it is unclear just how close the version shown here is to the original account.
Nevertheless, for anyone seeking a reference to the broadest possible range of reported cryptids this is an extremely useful guide, with a substantial bibliography for further literary exploration.
As always when confronted with encyclopaedic listings of out-of-place, mysterious and dubious creatures I look first for a reference to the controversial Brentford Griffin. It is indeed here, but the compiler seems too eager to accept the stories put around by some interested parties that it was a crude hoax. If indeed it was a hoax, it was anything but crude!
Both these books will be of great interest to students and potential students of cryptozoology, but I think Parson's Handbook will be of more immediate value for those seriously interested in direct involvement with the topic. -- John Rimmer.


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haha true. It'll be soo long before we start seeing nfc ready pos as the standard. And even longer for someone to invent a cell phone battery that actually last a whole day lol!
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Italian football agent Vincenzo Morabito claims that AC Milan are the only Serie A club interested in Liverpool defender Daniel Agger.
The 24-year-old has made just ten Premier League appearances this season and has featured only twice since the New Year.
The Denmark international has made no secret of the fact that he would be willing to leave Anfield if he does not start to play on a more regular basis.
The former Brondby centre-half's contract is set to run out in less than 18 months' time and so far Liverpool have yet to offer him a new deal.
"Agger is a player who is rarely used at Liverpool," Morabito told Sportmediaset.
"He is a good player but has not found much space in the team over the last two seasons."
Agger has reportedly attracted interest from Milan, who would be able to double his current wages, but recently fellow Italian giants Juventus and Inter have been mooted as alternative destinations.
"I don't think Agger will attract a bidding war between the major clubs but Milan are thinking about him to a certain extent," he added.
"Inter? I don't think so at all. If Agger was to come to Italy then he would only go to Milan."
The Rossoneri are said to be keen to line up a replacement for skipper Paulo Maldini who is finally expected to hang up his boots at the end of the season.


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Back in April we had our 5th Florida DrupalCamp, which was a really awesome event organized by a huge team of volunteers. I had a talk about putting Calendar information in Drupal, which is kind of my thing.
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A PENSIONER was left heartbroken after festive wreaths were stolen from his parents' final resting place.
David Robson was shocked to discover that six wreaths had been stolen from the plot where his family's ashes are scattered at Landican Cemetery before Christmas.
The 67-year-old had gone to the Birkenhead cemetery to take the floral arrangements for his late mother, father and brother but found that that the wreaths which his sister left just two days previously had disappeared.
David was later told by another relative that the wreaths he had taken to the cemetery had also gone.
He believes thieves took them in a bid to make quick cash from bereaved families.
David, a retired labourer, said: "Each and every wreath went missing within a two day period of being placed so we asked at the office whether they had been moved by workers but they said it was very unlikely.
"I think people took the wreaths to then sell on to others which is sickening. I understand that we are in a recession and times are hard but surely there are better ways to make money than stealing from the dead?"
Councillor Chris Meaden, cabinet member for culture, tourism and leisure, said: "Stealing things from other graves and memorials is a deplorable thing to do.
"It beggars belief how anyone could be so heartless and brazen and our deepest sympathies go to the family involved in this incident.
"We take security very seriously at Landican, as well as at our other cemeteries. Community Patrol officers carry out regular patrols and our maintenance staff also keep an eye out whilst they are taking care of the grounds."
However, it is important that individuals and families are able to come and go and spend time at a cemetery in peace, without intrusion, so it is a sensitive balance to strike."
David now believes more should be done to stop similar incidents happening in the future and that families should be on the look-out for thieves in the cemetery.
He said people should think about the upset they may cause to grieving families before they steal from graves.
He said: "In future I think we will have to take any flowers like wreaths up to Landican on Christmas Day, rather than before, so that thieves can't sell them on as no-one would want to buy them then.
"I don't know if CCTV is an option but something needs to be done to deter people from doing this heartless act."
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[box_light]"I was under the impression that [Dana White] was still kinda on the fence on whether he was gonna put me in front of Rashad (Evans) or not. That's assuming Rashad wins. He did offer me a fight with little Nogueira and I didn't think the fans would be interested in that fight and it's not as much time as I'd like to prepare for a five round fight so I told him I'd wait and see what happens with the Rashad fight. I'd like to fight Jones now rather than if I took that fight with Little Nog. I wouldn't be fighting Jones for another eight, ninth months. I'm okay waiting a little bit. It was more about having the time to prepare and I did inquire to say hey, I would be interested in doing it if it was a three round fight, I could have time to prepare."[/box_light]
In a statement released this afternoon, Dan Henderson relays that he was offered a fight with "Lil Nog" but that the bout didn't interest him, nor did he think it interested his fans.
UFC President Dana White last week speculated to the fact that Hendo may be getting the next crack at Jon Jones and for Hendo that was reason enough to hold off on the booking and try to wait out a title shot.
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