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: : : : I put a patient with pancreatic cancer on clinoril (sulindac) and he feels much better. look up sulindac sulphone or exisulind on the WWW. 2 methoxyestradiol is an estrogen that is also of great utility. it is like endo and angiostatin but is an oral pill you can take. arglabin and sch66336 are known to stop RAS tumors and most bile duct is RAS.
: : : I have two questions for you:
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: : : 2) Are you an MD?
: : : I think you are being a little misleading. Your "cocktail" is unlikely to cure cholangiocarcinoma!!!: : :
: : Do you know anything about cholangiocarcinoma?: I AM an MD! look up "exisulind" on the www. bile duct cancers are often from KRAS mutations. the respond to farnesyl transferase inhibitors. the exisulind metabolite of clinoril causes ALL cancer cells to commit suicide without harming normal tissue.
If this is the case, then why hasn't anyone I spoke to about this ever heard of this and why aren't all doctors using this approach if it's that easy?
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It's no surprise that the San Francisco 49ers are not the only team interested in Colin Kaepernick.
But it may be a little bit of a surprise that one of the teams working out the former Nevada quarterback is the quarterback-rich Philadelphia Eagles.
Kaepernick, who threw for 3,022 yards and 21 touchdowns and rushed for another 1,206 yards and 20 touchdowns, was scheduled to work out for Andy Reid and the Eagles in Philadelphia Wednesday.
The try out comes on the heels of the race to land Philadelphia's current back up quarterback Kevin Kolb has heated up.
This despite the fact that no team can trade for him until the league has a new collective bargaining agreement or a judge issues an injunction.
The 49ers were the first team to work out Kaepernick last week. Some draft pontificators have the Nevada product landing in San Francisco's lap in the second round of next month's draft.
But some other NFL "insiders" also have the 49ers as one of the team's that may land the player Kaepernick might replace if Philadelphia were to draft him.
Most recently, CNNSI's Don Banks wrote that the 49ers along with the Arizona Cardinals and the Seattle Seahawks are three teams expected to be interested in Kolb once he becomes available.
Monday Banks publication also reported that one team had already made an offer for a first round draft pick for Kolb. That team is widely believed to be the Seattle Seahawks.
Tuesday at the NFL meetings, Seahawks Head Coach Pete Carroll didn't deny that his team was asking about Kolb.
"It's good that people think that,'' Carroll said about Kolb possibly playing for his team next season. "Because every opportunity that's available, we investigate. We want to [take] every opportunity, and that's one that's been out there. They've said he's a guy they would possibly move. So those kind of discussions, it doesn't matter where it's coming from, we're trying to be privy to all of it. We just want to know what's going on.''
Most believe the 49ers and the Cardinals would not be interested in trading a first round pick as high as the two teams have for Kolb. Arizona picks at No. 5, while the 49ers are two spots later. Seattle doesn't draft until No. 25.
If Seattle did land Kolb, the move could unravel a ripple effect, which could impact what veteran the 49ers land and what rookie quarterback of the future the team drafts.
Philadelphia is already preparing for life without Kolb -- or at least driving the price up to acquire the back up -- by working out Kaeprenick. With Kolb gone, Philadelphia would become just one more team in need of a quarterback in the second round.
The good news for the 49ers is that San Francisco drafts eight spots ahead of Philadelphia in the second round. There is however expected to be a rush on quarterbacks in the second round.
As for a veteran quarterback, respected 49ers' beat reporter Matt Maiocco told KNBR listeners Monday that he believes if Seattle acquires Kolb that current Seahawks quarterback and pending free agent Matt Hasselbeck would become San Francisco's starting quarterback.

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Not a bad article, although two of his negatives can very well be positives.
No proven pass rush (proven being the key word here)
between Wilkerson, Maybin, Ellis and Coples they should be fine in this area.
While Landry and Bell aren't exactly know as cover safeties they are a MAJOR upgrade over what we had last year.


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Holt leaves Norwich to seek boss job
Norwich City first-team coach Gary Holt has left the Championship club by mutual consent after two years.
The 43-year-old ex-Scotland and Canaries midfielder returned to Carrow Road in 2014 after leaving his role as Falkirk boss to coach under Neil Adams.
He continued the role when Alex Neil took charge in January 2015, and has seen them promoted to and relegated from the top flight in 12 months.
Holt now intends to seek a head coach or managerial role.
"I've had some great and memorable times at Norwich City both as a player and as a member of the coaching staff," he told the club website.
"Now the time is right for me to seek a fresh challenge as a head coach or manager and I want to thank everyone at the club and the fans for their support for me over the years."


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It is that time of the year, to pick stocks for 2010 and time for my stock picking monkey to come out of a self imposed 12 months hiatus for another stab at the stockmarket pages.
It is a bumper edition this year and I started it 1 week ago in between feeds for my time consuming wee girl - she had no say in what the stock picking monkey chose this year but could be encouraged to throw a dart or two at the end of 2010.
In the face of a global recession, an uncertain economic future that had a big impact at the end of 2008 and continues today, with dwindling share values, even for good assets, it is going to be hard to pick winners for next year.
2009 was a tough year for stocks, perhaps one of the worst in a generation
Please keep in mind dear readers that the picks are my own and they reflect my investment philosophy and not necessarily anyone else's.
My picks are based on a long-term view, regardless of the current short to medium term market turmoil and economic uncertainty.
NB: Since I think most of my portfolio consist of the best stocks on the New Zealand market, I found it difficult to pick stocks outside my realm of self interest.
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Bourses urged to improve disclosureApril 2011
The world's largest stock exchanges have been urged by investors representing $1.6trillion (£1tn, €1.15tn) to deal with their constituents' inadequate sustainability disclosure.
The investors, led by Aviva and the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, have written to 30 bourses demanding action on the slow progress of large companies' non-financial reporting.
They suggest that listing requirements for companies should consider how responsible and sustainable their business model is and to put a sustainability strategy to a vote at annual meetings.
The letter, which arises from a partnership among the investors going back to 2008, names and shames the worst offenders on CSR disclosure. Exchanges with the smallest number of companies disclosing such data include those in Australia, Korea and the Philippines, and the US-based Nasdaq. The Paris, Tokyo and Lisbon exchanges were, by contrast, among the best-performing.
Paul Abberley, chief executive of Aviva Investors, said: 'Markets are driven by information. A lack of information as a result of limited or non-disclosure of [CSR] data makes it difficult for long-term investors such as us to assess the wider [CSR] risks and opportunities associated with a company.
'We believe that stock exchanges can play a crucial role in helping to create more sustainable global capital markets because of their ability to directly influence and monitor the operations and strategy of companies seeking to access the equity markets. This can only be a good thing for investors.'
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Cass Lake man charged with attempted murder
A 21-year-old man was charged in Cass County District Court Monday with four felony counts in relation to a Thursday afternoon shooting in Tract 34 in the Cass Lake area.
William Earl Morris of Cass Lake was charged with first-degree attempted murder, two counts of second-degree attempted intentional murder and first-degree assault causing great bodily harm.
Morris remained in the Cass County Jail Monday afternoon. The victim, Amos Ervin Laduke, 31, of Cass Lake, was airlifted to St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth. His condition was unavailable Monday.
According to the criminal complaint:
At about 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4, Cass County authorities were notified of a shooting at the junction of Cass County Road 60 and Broken Arrow Lane in Tract 34 of Cass Lake. Cass County Sheriff's deputies and Leech Lake Tribal Police found that Laduke had been shot multiple times in the back. At the Cass Lake IHS Hospital, Laduke said he had been walking with a 5-year-old when a car pulled up and stopped. He said a person he didn't recognize jumped out and began shooting at him. He said he did recognize one of the other men in the car.
Hospital staff members said Laduke had been shot at least three times, and a 40-caliber bullet from a semiautomatic handgun was recovered.
A witness said he had pulled up to the intersection in a vehicle and saw the shooting take place. The witness said he saw Laduke running, carrying the child, with the shooter chasing Laduke and continuing to shoot at him with a handgun. Laduke was shouting at the shooter not to shoot the child. Witnesses said Laduke collapsed and the shooter ran off.
The witness took Laduke and the child to the Cass Lake hospital and called 911 on the way.
The suspect, identified as Morris, was arrested running along a Tract 34 road. A deputy with a K9 backtracked from the site of the arrest and found clothing witnesses said the shooter had been wearing and a pair of latex gloves. The tread pattern on Morris' shoes matched the tracks in the snow. Also recovered were six shell casings.
If convicted, Morris faces a maximum penalty of not more than 20 years in prison on each of first-degree attempted murder, and the two counts of second-degree attempted murder, and 20 years and a $30,000 fine on the first-degree assault.


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Settlement Patterns of the Russian German Immigrants to the United States, 1870-1920
By Loralee J. Bloom
Anthropology 496, Germans from Russia Workshop, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
The years 1870 to 1920 saw about 117,000 Russian Germans immigrate to the United States. Such an exodus is very intriguing. One must wonder who these people were and what drew such numbers to make their homes on the Great Plains of the Midwest. The Russian German migrants were a very significant part of the history of the Midwest. They were some of the earliest settlers and founders of the earliest towns in such states as North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. In this paper I wish to explore the Germans from Russia through their settlement patterns. A study of where they settled and in what patterns can reveal much about these, our pioneering ancestors.
A consideration of the motivations for the Russian Germans to migrate to America can help in understanding their overall settlement placement. Basically these were a people in search of land, freedom, and isolation. Accounts of the Russian homeland prior to immigration describe a land hunger. Schock feels that a need for land was the outstanding push factor for migration. As it happened the United States had plenty of land to offer. The Homestead Act of 1864 had made expansive tracts of land available and at the right time. American land propaganda certainly made migration sound appealing and favorable. A great many of the Germans from Russia were farming people and were looking for farm lands. This explains why they consistently chose lands with agricultural possibilities. The Russian German field of experience was suitable for the conditions experienced on the Great Plains. In fact, Rippley suggests that agrarian utilization of the Great Plains was delayed until the arrival of the Germans from Russia.
In addition to its agricultural potential, the Midwest offered something else to the Russian Germans: isolation and freedom from restrictions. Life in Russia conditioned them into a lifestyle of isolation from the rest of the local population. This sort of lifestyle was an attempt at ethnic retention within an ethnically foreign land. This aspect of the Russian Germans, the fact that they migrated as a group already accustomed to isolation, is unique from any other migrating group, including those Germans who migrated directly from Germany. In fact, Germans from Russia in the United States have held more rigidly to their Germanic traditions than did their brethren who migrated directly from Germany.
This tradition for feelings of ethnic identity was carried along to the United States. Desire for isolation became manifested in the geographic location chosen for settlement. Isolation was very feasible on the Great Plains. Vast tracts of land were open for homesteading. The Dakotas and Kansas were some of the last states cleared of Indian resistance and last opened up for settlement by the railroads. It is no coincidence that North and South Dakota and western Kansas received the largest numbers of Russian Germans.
The 1920 census shows that North Dakota received by far the greatest number of Germans from Russia at 23,850. Nebraska followed at 9,940, Colorado at 9,935, South Dakota at 9,567, and Kansas at 9,056. Other states held far less in numbers. This settlement distribution tells one much about the Germans from Russia as a migrating people. The majority were in search of land and social isolation. They found both on the Great Plains.
Another intriguing aspect of the Russian German people is revealed in their settlement patterns. They tended to settle in clusters that can be divided according to geographic area of origin in Russia, and according to religious denomination. There were basically two geographic sources: the Black Sea and Volga areas. Germans in Russia were also settled in groups of consistently either Catholic or Evangelical. These geographic orientations and religious distinctions became identifications which were carried over to America and manifested into a settlement pattern. Not only did the Russian Germans settle together according to Russian origin, but in addition, according to religious denomination. They developed clusters of four groups with little overlapping between them: the Evangelical Volga Germans, the Catholic Volga Germans, the Evangelical Black Sea Germans, and the Catholic Black Sea Germans.
The Evangelical Volga Germans represent the greatest number at 99,750 (these are Sallet's own estimates of first and second generation Russian Germans in the United States). Nebraska held the largest number of this group, with Colorado second and Kansas third. Evangelical Volga Germans first came in 1874 to Lincoln and Sutton, Nebraska where Black Sea Germans were already established nearby. Lincoln became a focal point and Sutton served as a base camp for further expansion northward and westward.
Simultaneous to settlement in Nebraska, Evangelical Volga Germans were settling in Kansas. The first area of settlement was Marion County. Settlement increased and expanded westward and northward between the years 1880 and 1895. The Evangelical Volgans also significantly contributed to the settlement and establishment of such cities as Portland and Chicago.
Volga Germans of the Catholic faith represent the group of the smallest numbers at 18,743. Predominantly they clustered in Kansas. They established the settlement of Herzog. Topeka became their base camp for further expansion to the north, east, west and southwest during 1878 through 1920.
In contrast to the Volga Germans who were of various occupations, the Black Sea Germans were predominantly wheat farmers. This might help explain why the Black Sea Germans overwhelmingly chose to settle in the agricultural states of North and South Dakota, and Nebraska. Evangelical Black Sea Germans were the second greatest in number at 79,044. According to the 1920 census, North Dakota held the highest number; this number also represents the largest cluster group situated in any one state. South Dakota also held a significantly high amount; Washington, Nebraska, and California had less, yet significant amounts.
Large groups of Evangelical Black Sea Germans arrived in the years 1872 and 1873. Base camps were at Yankton, South Dakota, Sutton and Lincoln, Nebraska; and the territorial capitals for both Dakotas served as points for expansion. From the base camps in South Dakota settlements of Black Sea Evangelicals expanded into Hutchinson and Bon Homme counties which served as centers for further expansion north and westward into the Dakotas. Black Sea Germans settled nearly all of the homestead lands of Yankton, Bon Homme, Hutchinson, and Douglas counties between 1874 and 1880. From South Dakota, settlements were pushed into North Dakota counties of McIntosh, Emmons, and Logan; and from there followed the railroad construction into Morton, Stark, Sheridan, Grant, Mercer, McLean, and Stutsman counties. The 1890 census reveals that Russian Germans were already the majority in Logan, McIntosh, and Mercer counties.
The Catholic Black Sea Germans were about half the number of their Evangelical country men and women at 37,496 in the 1920 census. But they clustered predominantly in the same states: North and South Dakota, and Kansas. Settlement of the Catholic Black Sea Germans took place later and separately from the Evangelicals, however, they used already established Evangelical settlements as arrival points. In the years 1889 through 1890 there existed a community of Catholics in Eureka, South Dakota. But the population of the Evangelicals there expanded so greatly the Catholics chose to move on into Hague, Strasburg, and Pierce County of North Dakota. This incident illustrates the group's stubborn individualism, and helps one to understand how the cluster patterns of settlement developed for each of the four groups of Russian Germans. Expansion of the Black Sea Catholics continued from South Dakota into North Dakota. Pierce and McHenry counties became heavily populated. The heaviest concentration in North Dakota developed around and west of the Missouri River in such areas as Hebron, Glen Ullin, Richardton, Dickinson, and Bismarck-Mandan.
There was also a fifth group of Russian Germans who settled in very distinct clusters. Those were the Mennonites and Hutterites. They immigrated about the same time as the other Volga and Black Sea Germans especially between the years 1873 and 1875. They predominantly settled in Kansas, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Because of their unique religious way of life, these Russian Germans strongly displayed isolation cluster patterns in settlement.
A study of the settlement patterns of the Germans from Russia can reveal much about them as a people. Predominantly these migrants chose the Midwest as their new homes. The things Russian Germans were looking for in migration help explain why they chose to settle where they did. They were mostly people in search of land, isolation, and freedom from restrictions; and the Midwest of America offered all of these. Settlement patterns also reveal that the Germans from Russia were a very ethnically and religiously conscious people. They repeatedly settled in clusters of the same geographic orientation and religious denomination. Because the Russian Germans chose to pioneer the vast Midwest, they helped in settlement that otherwise may not have taken place for many years.
Rippley, La Vern J., German-Americans (Boston: Twayne Publishers. 1976).
Sallet, Richard, Russian-German Settlements in the United States (Fargo: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies. 1974).
Schock, Adolph, In Quest of Free Land (California: San Jose State College. 1964)
i Adolph Schock, In Quest of Free Land (California, 1964), p. 93.
ii Ibid, p. 99.
iii La Vern J. Rippley, The German-Americans (Boston, 1976), p. 175.
iv Ibid, p. 177
v Ibid.
vi Ibid, p. 175.
vii Richard Sallet, Russian-German Settlements in the United States (Fargo, 1974), p. 110-111.
viii Rippley, German-American, p. 174.
ixSchock, Quest, p. 102.
xSallet, Settlements, p. 112.
xi Ibid, p. 42.
xii Ibid, p. 45-46.
xiii Ibid, p. 48-55.
xiv Ibid, p. 58-59.
xv Rippley, German-Americans, p. 178.
xvi Sallet, Settlements, p. 112.
xvii Rippley, German-Americans, p. 175.
xviii Sallet, Settlements, p. 24.
xix Rippley, German-Americans, p. 176.
xx Sallet, Settlements, p. 26.
xxi Ibid, p. 112.
xxii Ibid, p. 35.
xxiii Ibid, p. 36.
xxiv Ibid, p. p. 37-39.
xxv Schock, Quest, p. 107.


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Now, in our final installment we're dealing with some pretty severe gifts. The kind that not only say, "Dad, you're a great guy," but they also say, "Dad, let's never again talk about how I wrecked your car."
Bosch 2-1/4 HP Plunge and Fixed Base Variable Speed Router – This is a great (almost) all in one router kit. It's got the power for any task and has a very nice depth set/adjust. We picked one up a while back and so far we're really impressed with it. $199.99 at Amazon.com
DeWalt 10" Compact Table Saw – Not as big as their portable benchtop model, but it's got a lot of the same qualities that make it a great saw. It's got a rack and pinion fence, a 15 amp motor and it comes with a miter gauge, a carbide blade, and a push stick (that you should immediately replace with a homemade one). $367.49 at Amazon.com
Porter-Cable 3 Nailer and Compressor Combo Kit – With a brad nailer, a staple gun, and a finish nailer, there is nothing a man cannot do. Porter-Cable has this great, economical set for the advanced DIYer. $299.00 at Amazon.com
Hitachi Round Head Framing Nailer – Get Dad the king of the framing nailers. You pay for it, but it's the best. $309.00 at Amazon.com
Makita 14.4 Volt Drill, Impact Driver and Light – There's no doubt that this is a great deal. And don't think that if you have the drill, the impact driver is redundant. They are two totally different tools, and they each have their place in dad's workshop. $217.99 at Amazon.com
Milwaukee 28-Volt Li-Ion 4 Tool Combo Kit – You could really blow dad's doors off with this set of Li-Ion tools. It's got a sawzall, circular saw, light and hammer-drill. This one might cover Christmas as well as Father's Day. $513.99 at Amazon.com
Jet 14" Mini-Lathe – If your dad turns wood at all, why not upgrade his machinery to this powerful little lathe. Perfect for making pens, bowls, and chess pieces. If it's not big enough, there is an extension available. $331 at Amazon.com
Delta Benchtop Planer – This is a great planer for the garage workshop. It's portable (but insanely heavy), and gets the job done. It might seem like a lot of money, but just think of all the dough that dad will be saving, now that he only has to buy rough wood. $429 at Amazon.com
Husqvarna 18" Chainsaw – What dad doesn't need a way-too-powerful chainsaw? $339.95 at Amazon.com
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The King of Iron Fist tournament is now ready for your phone or tablet, but not in the usual way. Tekken Card Tournament will have two phases. There's a free-to-play online game for phones, tablets and browsers, and physical booster packs. Namco Bandai says to expect the online component in the next few weeks, with the physical boosters arriving later in 2013.
The physical cards can work as a standalone game, or added to your virtual card deck by scanning a code. Doing so may unlock more abilities for fighters you currently own, or entire new characters to get punchy with. Tekken Card Tournament will feature a single-player tournament as well as one-on-one fighting.
A free-to-play model makes sense, because we'll all try something free at least once. The physical component will have a tougher challenge on hand. Collectible card gaming is a really competitive industry, and even licensed properties such as Tekken have a hard time gaining traction. World of Warcraft's trading card game has been a huge success for Cryptozoic Entertainment. It includes loot cards that unlock in-game items for the PC game. Numerous other attempts to leverage a video game's popularity into either card or miniature gaming have crashed hard.
It's been easier for established card games such as Magic: The Gathering to take their physical presence and cross over into digital gaming. Duels of the Planeswalkers, a less complex version of Magic, has been a smash hit on consoles and PCs. Like WoW and Tekken Card Tournament, it uses cross promotion with Magic's physical component. Players who buy Duels can take proof of purchase to a nearby card store and redeem it for a physical copy of a card.
Whether you're talking card games or video games, the first hurdle is making it fun. If Tekken Card Tournament is so addictive we have to play "just one more match," then it has a shot. If after a few hands, I'd rather be playing the video game, then it's going the way of HaloClix.
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how much truth is there in any of this?
two of my mates are utterly brainwashed with it all,i mean there must be some truth int it here n there,american goverment wise.??
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obama decepion,farenheit 9/11,loose change..?
how much truth is there in any of this?
Who knows! I hate the way our government pander to the Americans, I think its disgusting what they are doing to that computer hacker by extraditing him to America just because he showed up how crap their security is. They should be giving him an award not trying to punish him.
my mate was just pointing out how lax security at heathrow was by bringing that cocaine back from his holiday - they should give him an award.
Didnt think you would of been interested in all that conspirecy theory stuff Marcus
No muppet,smuggling drugs is illegal, looking at "pictures of ufo's" isn't.
If some bloke who's not quite the full ticket, living a bed sit can walk in to pentagons systems then its there own fault for being slack.
What did he do? he didn't steel anything, he didn't damage or corrupt anything.
Theories are not allowed to circulate on the internet unless they have been rigorously verified by teams of "fact checkers". So essentialy, everything you read on the internet is absolutely true.
This is true even of things which at first blush seem highly implausible, like the fact that the world trade centre was in fact destroyed by Zionist missiles disguised as passenger planes using holographic cloaking while the actual passenger planes which went missing were hidden in a hollowed-out mountain in Nevada by the CIA on the orders of a lizard-being from another dimension so that America would start a war with Iraq leading to a marked increase in the price of tomato ketchup (which was what the lizards wanted all along). As I say, if it's on the internet, it must be true, even if it's unlikely.
No smoke without fire - also see Zeitgeist & Zeitgeist Addendum for an alternative view of the world. Branding something a conspiracy theory used to be a lazy blank dismissal of the non-mainstream view of the world ... but these films actually make you look at the world in a whole new way - and it's quite liberating!
It's all across the road in Area 52
and it's quite liberating!
If you like reading more or less total rubbish dressed up with some slightly plausible information, a dash of bullshit, a smattering of carefully selected facts and some clever marketing.
The problem with conspiracy theories is that they're self propagating - anyone coming up with information that discredits the theory is immediately lablled as being part of the cover up.
For the same reason that people believe their horoscope butdont beleieve the Big Bang Theory.
Shuuussshh! They're listening in!!
Has anyone noticed the increase in pirates since 9/11?
What grieves me is that this guy is being punished for showing them up. If he has Asperger's the likelihood of his seeing any further than his interest in UFOs or whatever is highly remote. It is very common for people with Aspergers to have what are called "special interests", subjects they get to know intimately, dissect, analyse then move on to the next one. These obsessions may last years or months but there is rarely any malicious intent, they just don't operate on the same social level that we do. My son has Aspergers; when he was young we were becoming very concerned at his lack of friends or inability to function in a social setting but the team who were helping us went to great pains to explain that this was our problem, not his. There is often no need for a social circle outside their own minds and they are quite happy to live in their own little world. It is against this background, along with the lack of malicious intent that the US Gov't are being shown up for what they really are.... bullies.
(That the UK Gov't is playing Crabbe or Goyle to their Malfoy is just embarrassing.) - Sorry, we went through a Harry Potter phase a while ago and it has kind of stuck.
Spanishbarry who are you i wonder?
no i aint really,like i said two of mi mates are taken in by it all.
crazy-legs : cuts both ways, just because a theory or point of view does not conform to the governments-wouldn't-do-that-officially-sanctioned-newinternational norm by branding it a self propagating conspiracy theory doesn't make it untrue!
Honestly, have you not watched any of these and thought to yourself 'even if this is only 10% true then holy crap'? No? Jeez - no wonder that banks and governments are able to take the p!ss so much, coz nobody is home!!
I've found myself arguing on the side of both 9/11 conspiracy theories (the arab conspiracy and the govt conspiracy - conspiracy doesn't = shit) and there's plenty on both sides that you can class as:
more or less total rubbish dressed up with some slightly plausible information, a dash of bullshit, a smattering of carefully selected facts and some clever marketing.
I have my own opinion, but every argument has a counter argument, they've all been rehearsed and repeated ad finitum, and it's very difficult to get anywhere unless you're speaking to someone who has done an awful lot of reasearch and analytical thinking about the facts. (and the people who seem to me to fit this bill more often are those on the so-called "truth" side e.g. David Ray Griffin)
3 buildings all collapse as in a perfect demolition from an "attack"?
something don't add up
A lot of the conspiracy theories appear to require an exceptional degree of planning and control by governments (or other groups), combined with near perfect control of information and the people involved. That's what makes me suspicious of the alternative versions of real events. Good in films but outside of Hollywood?
I suspect the truth, especially for the New York attacks, is more likely to involve governmental incompetence at a huge scale, followed up by bodged attempts to hide aspects of the truth leading to the impression of a conspiracy. Governments telling the whole truth, unlikely, but conspiracy on the scale required for a moon landing hoax or hiding passenger planes. I suspect not?
Honestly, have you not watched any of these and thought to yourself 'even if this is only 10% true then holy crap'? No? Jeez - no wonder that banks and governments are able to take the p!ss so much, coz nobody is home!!
By analogy if I made a film explaining why you were a paedo for example, would you wonder wow! what if only 10% of this is true?
I don't know of many "perfect demolitions" that kill 3,000 people and destroy neighbouring buildings.
Sothey planned the whole conspiracy that well but did not realise that allowing
3 buildings to all collapse as in a perfect demolition from an "attack"would not give it away ....how short sighted of them....but for that oversight they may have gotten away with it?
Perfectly rational amd reasonable explanations of how this occured. Not like building were designed to withstand being hit by passenger planes full of fuel now is it?
Midgebait I think has hit the nail on the head.
Whenever you suspect a carefully planned and precisely executed conspiracy, try fitting the situation with incompetence instead.
Possibly a good example of this is the woe that is falling on the RC church in Ireland at the moment. It could look like a paedo conspiracy, but it's more likely to be as a result of panicked people of inadequate moral fibre trying to cover up to protect their positions.
the biggest problem with conspiracy theories of this ilk is that they rely on the notion that the government or authority in question is staffed by loyal, competent and motivated staff.
having worked in government this is patently not true.
3 buildings all collapse as in a perfect demolition from an "attack"?
something don't add up
I'm not one for 'conspiracy theories', but that one does intrigue me. How did the third World-Trade-Centre building collapse so neatly without the influence of a plane hitting it?
I'm not one for 'conspiracy theories', but that one does intrigue me. How did the third World-Trade-Centre building collapse so neatly without the influence of a plane hitting it?
There was a programme on it, it's been screened a couple of times actually. Panorama or Horizon, one of those sort of things. Explained it very well, had a mix of views from conspiracy theorists, government people, a demolitions expert, eyewitnesses etc.
It was to do with the way the structure was built, the way the debris hit it and the subsequent big fire. But the most telling bit was some senior Government bloke saying "do you *really* think the Government is competent enough to pull off a stunt like that, without anyone knowing about the plans, with no leaks and actually get it to work?"
The massive fire probably had something to do with it and I think fire fighters were a bit busy that day to deal with it.
Occam's razor innit
I dont believe in conspiracy theories about 911 or the Princess Di Bollo@ but one thing about 911 that concerns me if that is the right word is that my mate a Major in the Brit Army at the time had a friend who worked in one of the towers and he worked for the US Secret Service, he met him on a course in Washington and so was not waffling, apparently they had an office in one of the towers, on that day none of the Secret Service bods turned up for work at that office. !!!! Thay cannot all have been throwing a sickie.
I'm not one for 'conspiracy theories', but that one does intrigue me. How did the third World-Trade-Centre building collapse so neatly without the influence of a plane hitting it?
There was a programme on it, it's been screened a couple of times actually. Panorama or Horizon, one of those sort of things. Explained it very well, had a mix of views from conspiracy theorists, government people, a demolitions expert, eyewitnesses etc.
It was to do with the way the structure was built, the way the debris hit it and the subsequent big fire. But the most telling bit was some senior Government bloke saying "do you *really* think the Government is competent enough to pull off a stunt like that, without anyone knowing about the plans, with no leaks and actually get it to work?"
Also it would be a bit of a howler wouldn't it- demolishing a building without organizing a plane to fly into it first? You'd be setting yourself up for just the question Aristotle is asking, so why do it?
That's the thing with the conspiracies- they simultaneously require an unbelievable amount of complex organisation and some astonishing oversights.
Another vote for Occam's razor, although I agree with midgebait that it's unlikely that the official version of events is the whole story.
MrSalmon - Got to agree, the Governments of the World cannot even run day to day mundane stuff without it appearing in the paper and someone whistleblowing, i think in the case of 911 they definately had a good idea what was planned most likely they knew the targets but you cannot head off every eventuallity. Case in point in the Princess Di case and the characters that say she was taken out, look how many complexities would have to be in place to pull that stunt off, what would have happened if she had put her seat belt on for a start ... the week before she was in the sea swimming, far more plausible excuses for someone drowning that getting taken out in an RTA in the centre of the capital of France..
I didn't say that it was 'the government wot done it' and it would have taken a very effective bunch of civil servants to do so.
An airliner full of fuel hitting a tower is very significant and could cause a lot of damage. A fire in a building is somewhat less out-of-the-ordinary.
Granted,a fire on multiple floors is probably unusual, but it is still intriguing/of concern that a series of fires (fuelled by office paper?) could bring down such an enormous building.
Maybe such buildings didn't have enough of a safety factor built into them? Surprising and intriguing, but that doesn't automatically mean that it was done by world-ruling lizards.
the amount of people you would need logistically to be involved in an event of that size (bringing down two of the most recognised buildings in the world in the busiest city in the world) would run into the thousands - you can't tell me in todays world where almost everyone wants to get famous/noticed/money there wouldn't be one person who would come out with "the truth"
Everyone has an opinion on 9/11, from what i've seen Loose Change and all those films make for a compelling arguement, but then sadly the people behind them are interviewed and just come across as argumentative nuts who beleive so firmly in a dark spectre behind it all that any sensible argument is denounced by them even when its backed up with scientific evidence.
Were the US government complacent due to their ego and did they take measures just in case something did happen on that day that they more than likely had notification that something might happen - probably
Did they get caught with their pants down - most definately
Did they use it as an excuse to depose Saddam Hussein, a man that the bush administration have a score to settle with - hell yeah
Were the US government behind the 9/11 attacks and make it look like the work of islamic terrorists - no
The WTC was designed with an aircraft strike in mind - being so close to several airports it had to be. The aircraft however was a 707 and they did not factor in it being full of fuel.
The aircraft that hit the WTC might look like 707's but they were in fact bigger and also carried plenty of fuel. The heat of the fires probably had little to do with office paper and more to do with burning jet fuel!
The WTC was also built without asbestos and used poorer quality fire proofing. Lots of burning jet fuel at high temperatures plus inadequate fireproofing plus lots more floors above equals building collapse.
I think this has been covered by enough TV programs now that even I can remember the basics!
No plane hit the Pentagon though did it? I mean, really?!.. the early pictures show basically no damage - no plane, no hole. Where did it go?
You don't have to believe the whole conspiracy to notice that it doesn't quite add up. And then you have to think 'if there's some fibs, what else?'
The Pentagon cannot have been hit by a plane, because if it had been there'd have been an enormous hole shaped like a plane in the wall.
The world cannot be round, because if it was people would fall over.
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Breaking Walls – Building Networks, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (Part of the ATLANDIS project "Democracy – Hidden Stories – New Identities")
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From Ideology to Economy. Contemporary Bulgarian Art – 20 Years Later,
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Techniques, ICA – Sofia Gallery, Sofia (curators Iara Boubnova, Maria Vassileva)
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Mind Your Step! Exhibition of ICA – Sofia in the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia
Zero Gravity – The Architecture of Social Space, Center for Contemporary Art – Plovdiv, The Ancient Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (curators Bettina Steinbrügge, Vessela Nozharova)
Video-Salon 3, Galerija 10m2, Sarajevo. Within Red, a video selection curated by Nadia Timova
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Real Sensations – Artists from Bulgaria and Romania, HVB Kunst Palais, Munich
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Human Touch, Sala Terrena, Salzburg, Austria (curator Sabine Jaroschka)
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Wild Capital, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany (curator Christiane Mennicke) (Cat.)
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Regards l'Est, Eglise du Vieux Saint-Sauveur, Caen, France (curator Brent Klinkum,
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Donumenta-4, 2005, Regensburg, Germany (curators Regina Hellwig-Schmid,
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Central. New Art from New Europe (in cooperation with Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna),
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Xfilm, Festival for Experimental Film, Video and New Media, Sofia (Cat.)
Love It or Leave It. 5th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje / Montenegro, Dubrovnik / Croatia, Tirana / Albania (curator René Block)
Central. New Art from New Europe (in cooperation with Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna), Salzburg / Austria, Graz / Austria, Bucharest (Cat.)
Privatizations. Contemporary Art from Eastern Europe (The Post-communist Condition).
Within Luchezar Boyadjiev's Freedom (is) for beginners. Kunstwerke – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (curator Boris Groys)
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Export-Import. Contemporary Art from Bulgaria, Sofia Municipal Art Gallery
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In Search of Balkania, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
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Manifesta 4, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt/Main (curators Iara Boubnova,
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I Love Art Video III, Forum Itinérant at the Le-Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg, France
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Trendification. Contemporary Art from Bulgaria, Association for Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria (curator Walter Seidl)
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At Room Temperature, Ata Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia (in the studio of Ivan Moudov),
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Negociations, Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain Languedoc – Roussillon, Sete, France
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Communication Front'2000. Crossing points: East – West, Center for Contemporary Art, Ancient Bath, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (curators Dimitrina Sevova, Emil Miraztchiev,
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Balkan Art Generator, Balkan Art Network, International House, Brussels (Cat.)
After the Wall: Art and Culture in Post-communist Europe, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (curators Bojana Pejic, David Elliott, Iris Müller-Westermann)
International Short Film Festival – Oberhausen, Germany
GMI, The Global Multimedia Interface, Home, Leicester Square, London
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Video Archeology I, International Video Art Festival, Sofia (curators Boris Kostadinov,
Zhivka Valyavicharska, Iliyana Nedkova)
After the Wall: Art and culture in post-communist Europe, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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Turning the Page, Apollonia'99 Festival of Arts, Sozopol, Bulgaria (curator Dessislava Dimova)
Communication Front, Arttoday Foundation, Old Turkish Bathhouse, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
WRO 99, 7th International Media Art Biennial, Wroclaw, Poland (curator Piotr Krajevski) (Cat.)
Recipes, Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia (curator Maria Vassileva)
International Short Film and Video Festival – Oberhausen, Germany
Maruby 99, International Photography Exhibition, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana
Leisure and Survival, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria (curator Silvia Eiblmayr)
Translocation_New Media/Art, Generali Foundation, Vienna and Witte de Wit, Rotterdam
Inventing a People. Contemporary Art in the Balkams, National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia; ArtExpo Foundation, Bucharest; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (curator Andre Rouille) (Cat.)
3rd International Video Summit Videomedeja, presentation of Crossing Over 3 Workshop,
Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
MoneyNation@access, Shedhalle Zurich, Switzerland (curator Marion von Osten) (Cat.)
The Archive, 6 Shipka St. Gallery, Sofia (curator Iara Boubnova)
Crossing Over 3, Mini International Video Workshop, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
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Bulgariaavantgarde. Kräftemessen II, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich, Germany
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Chaos in Action, multimedia project, Ata Center for Contemporary Art, Sofia
Video Art, Ted Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria (curator Ilyana Nedkova)
Back and Forth, The New Icon, 3rd International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Cetinje, Montenegro (curators Andrei Erofeev, Iara Boubnova) (Cat.)
Art in Landscape, 4th International Symposium, Wachtberg/Gars-am-Kamp, Austria
(curator Dieter Graff)
9th International Biennial of Graphic Art (section Simulations), Varna, Bulgaria
(curator Iara Boubnova) (Cat.)
Ars ex Natio. Made in Bulgaria. 4th Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for the Arts-Sofia, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (curator Iara Boubnova, Maria Vassileva) (Cat.)
Menschenbilder, Foto und Videokunst aus Bulgarien, IFA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
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Evidences. The Real Diversity. 3rd Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for the Arts-Sofia, Sofia Municipal Art Gallery (curatorial team H. Tcherkelov, S. Stefanov, G. Gatev, K. Mintchev) (Cat.)
Eastern Europe: Spatia Nova. 4th International St. Petersburg Biennial, Russia
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Section 13, 6 Shipka St. Gallery, Sofia
National Autumn Exhibition, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (curator Boris Danailov) (Cat.)
Grand Prix, 6 Shipka St. Gallery, Sofia (Cat.)
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SAND FLAT CHURCH, TEXAS. Sand Flat Church, also known as Sand Flat, is on Farm Road 2022 sixteen miles southeast of Palestine in southeastern Anderson County. The community, presumably named for the sandy local soil, was settled before the Civil War. In 1898 the Sand Flat school had some twenty black students and one teacher. There were several scattered dwellings at the townsite during the 1940s. By 1982 the community consisted of a church and several dwellings. In 2000 no trace of the community appeared on county maps.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:Pauline Buck Hohes, A Centennial History of Anderson County, Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1936).
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Andrus will miss entire series on turf
Andrus will miss entire series on turf
Andrus strained his right hamstring in Saturday's 12-4 loss to the Twins, and was removed from the game in the third inning.
The shortstop, who ran sprints Tuesday at Rogers Centre, said his hamstring is nearing 100 percent, and he expected to know the exact date of his return after Tuesday's game.
"I think it will be a couple days," Andrus said. "I'm getting close to being good to go. Like I said, it's nothing I'm too worried about, just giving it a couple days to rest and let my hamstring get better."
Washington ruled out any possibility of a return earlier than Friday, citing the turf at Rogers Centre as his cause for concern.
"He went down and hit today," Washington said. "I certainly don't want him out there messing around, taking ground balls and stuff right now, because it doesn't take much on that turf for it to tighten up, and we need to get Elvis right."
Andrus, too, acknowledged his skepticism with the artificial playing surface, which saw a ball jump nearly a foot over the head of right fielder Jeff Francoeur in the second inning Monday.
"I know this turf is pretty bad," Andrus said. "[Even] when I'm OK, my legs hurt after every game. I think that's why they worry in there. Washington is so worried about me going to play on this turf."


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New Delhi, Sep 9 (IANS) Diya Kar Hazra, who has two decades of experience in the Indian book industry, will take over as publisher at Pan Macmillan India, one of the newest in the country but already among the top five.
Hazra, who began her career at HarperCollins and worked in Penguin for over a decade, became a founder publisher in Bloomsbury India in 2012, and has published a range of outstanding authors including Khushwant Singh, Amitav Ghosh, Ramachandra Guha, William Dalrymple, Kamila Shamsie, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Bapsi Sidhwa, a Pan Macmillan release said.
Hazra, who begins her new charge on Monday and will be responsible for imprints under Pan Macmillan including Picador India, Pan and Macmillan, said she was "thrilled at being offered this wonderful opportunity" the year Pan Macmillan won the Bookseller Industry Award for publisher of the year.
Pan Macmillan India's senior vice president Rajdeep Mukherjee said Hazra, who has a "wealth of experience and creativity" will help the company, which is pioneering local publishing with the 15-year-old Picador India imprint, in "growing its India list".
Parent company Pan Macmillan is one of Britain's largest,with its published authors including V.S. Naipaul, Jeffrey Archer, Wilbur Smith, Patrick French, Ken Follett, Robin Cook and Nelson Mandela.


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Bombing of Leuna 12.05.1944
Bombing of Leuna Factory of the I.G.Farbenindustrie A.G. near Merseburg near Merseburg, Germany - Mission #152 of the 303rd BG, 12 May 1944
The Leuna Factory of the I.G.Farbenindustrie A.G. near Merseburg is the biggest heavy chemical plant in Germany. Its principal products are ammonia, synthetic petrol derived from the hydrogenation of brown coal, and synthetic alcohols made from hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The factory was the largest synthetic oil factory for the German war effort in WWII and bombing raids caused it to be repeatedly repaired by replacing parts with manpower. Because of its importance to the Nazi war effort, the area was heavily defended by antiaircraft guns and became one of the most dreaded flak zones in Europe.
Photo taken from: B-17F #42-3398 Mrs. Satan-Queen of Hell 360BS Altitude: 25,800 feet, Time: 14:10, Pilot: 1Lt Donald M. Johnston
Note: This mission was the final 303rd BG(H) mission to use an F model B-17. B-17F #42-3398 Mrs. Satan - Queen of Hell (360BS), piloted by 1Lt Donald M. Johnston, was the last B-17F to fly a 303rd BG(H) combat mission.


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Friedel is highest-paid U.S. footballer
Given that this week ESPN The Magazine rolled out its Money issue, where we took our best shot at determining the highest-salaried athlete in almost every country in the world, we figured now would be a good time to ask how well American soccer players do in raking in the cash from their European clubs.
So we asked two trusted sources, U.K.-based Nick Harris of sportingintelligence.com and Ori Cooper of IM Scouting, both of whom provided us with data and insight for The Mag's piece. What did we learn? Well, the most interesting tidbit is that Brad Friedel is the highest-paid U.S. footballer. (Although Oguchi Onyewu, on loan to FC Twente but still under contract with AC Milan, isn't far behind.) Lucky Insider subscribers also get the rest of the story, or at least a good part of it, when it comes to Americans' pay stubs.


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Benefit for Ian Mathes
The person you're helping is Ian Mathes, and we're going to tell you a little bit about him. he was born in Belleville, Illinois and he grew up with two pretty big interests (out of many) that really stuck with him through life, art and dance. as a kid he would draw G.I. Joe characters off of their package with his dad, and spend weekends with a family friend dancing on cardboard while listening to Michael Jackson, Run DMC, and Grandmaster Flash. He found a love in the art of tattooing at an early age... and became obsessed with one day becoming a tattoo artist himself. He knew exactly who he wanted to be. in the late 90's he found a home, or haven if you will, in the EDM (Electronic Dance Music) scene and quickly met some great dancers who helped inspire and teach him. Within a few years Ian became pretty well known as a dancer who was seen at just about every event on the dance floor. Whether it was popping, isolating, ticking, or doing liquid style dancing or learning how to breakdance, Ian loved it all. He loved it to the core of his being.
After years of practice and sketchbook after sketchbook, constantly drawing everything from urban graffiti styles to realistic portraits, to macabre black and grey and Asian styles of tattoo art. Ian caught his break into the world of tattooing in 2000 at the age of 18. It took two years of calling, driving, and trying to convince people he was talented and dedicated enough to have a chance at an apprenticeship. he was deterred at every moment, desuaded by everyone, he stayed persistent and it paid off. If there is anything that Ian has, it is determination and ambition.
In 2003 he gained a spot in a music video for his dancing, and a spot at the most well respected tattoo studio in his area it seemed that everything was going well. Ian was starting to reap the rewards of his hard work and dedication into his loves... He was starting to succeed. Late one night in October of that year all of that came to an ubrupt end when late one night Ian's car slid off the road in the rain and slid through a field, hitting a sinkhole that flipped his car into a tree. he was cut from the car and air lifted to SLUH hospital in St.Louis where after a 13 hour surgery they were able to bring Ian back and give him another chance at life.
He was paralyzed from the waist down due to an L1/L2 spinal cored injury and had multiple reconstruction surgeries to his face and a punctured lung. without the capability to dance any longer, when he was able Ian went right back to work. He worked 8-10hour days and longer if need be. Ignorant to proper pressure relief and cushioning needs, Ian started developing pressure sores due to long days of working in one position on a sub par cushion he was on.. After attending multiple wound care centers and a slew of mediocre cushions because of horrible manufacturing by certain... reputable companies and lack of good insurance to pay for a constant airflow cushion. Ian's wounds only grew worse.
In 2010 a botched surgery left his wounds even worse, and left him incapable of working full time. with insufficient cushioning and an improperly fitted wheelchair his wounds became so bad that he is now on permanent bedrest until he can heal enough to get a surgery to heal his wounds. In the meantime Ian is in need of multiple cushioning needs to help improve his quality of life and help him to once again move forward.
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Just call me Tracker Trucker Max
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I can't tell you exactly which flavor my new truck is, but it's a honking great big one with a large extended cab and four doors...
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I had become the proud owner of a Dodge Ram pickup truck. I'm really not very knowledgeable about vehicles, so I can't tell you exactly which flavor it is, but it's a honking great big one with a large extended cab and four doors (maybe if you look at the picture below you can tell me what sort it is).
Truth to tell, I wasnt looking for any form of vehicle. I used to have a Nissan Xterra, which I really liked, but about four years ago the air conditioning broke down and I was told that it could cost anything up to $3,000 to fix it. Personally, I would have been happy driving around with the windows down, but it was the summer (which is jolly hot in Alabama) and my mother was coming over to visit in a few weeks time, so I traded my Xterra for a Kia Spectra.
Thus, for the last four years Ive been enjoying really good gas mileage and relatively small bills at the pump until a couple of weeks ago when I agreed to spend a Saturday with a friend who was hunting for a truck, and who had seen a good deal on a Dodge Ram.
As it turned out, my friend opted for another vehicle, but I decided that the Ram was just too good a deal to pass up. It's a 2006 model that looks like new with only 55,000 miles on the clock. Before I purchased it, a mechanic friend put it up on the rack and ran it through his diagnostic computers and pronounced it to be A-OK.
The amazing thing was the price tag, which was only $12,100. Comparing this to equivalent vehicles on the web, I realized that if I wanted to I could turn around and resell it for more than I paid for it and how often have you been able to say that when youve just bought a vehicle? Even better, I financed it through the Redstone Federal Credit Union, and for only $1,500 (added to the loan and spread over the life of the loan) I got a bumper-to-bumper extended warranty for four years or 48,000 miles whichever comes first.
On the one hand, I have to admit that my eyes do water a little when I fill the truck up with gas (the Kia has spoiled me). On the other hand, driving the Kia is a bit like being a small kid standing behind adults at a parade you end up jumping up and down desperately wanting to know whats going on, but you cant see anything. By comparison, when I climb up into my truck, I feel like I am the ruler of all I survey and The world is my lobster (or some other crustacean of your choice).
One of my old catch-lines when Id successfully guided us (myself and my wife Gina The Gorgeous) to our destination was Just call me Tracker Max. More recently, I assumed my Max The Magnificent moniker. (What can I say? If youve got it, flaunt it :-) So now Im in a bit of a quandary. Which sounds better: Tracker Trucker Max or Trucker Tracker Max?
Would it be a tad pretentious to include The Magnificent in there somewhere? How about I lose the The and opt for the somewhat simpler Magnificent Tracker Trucker Max. But then I think to myself: Suppose Im invited to a ball and the doorman wants to introduce me in loud, strident tones?" You have to admit that Tracker Trucker Max The Magnificent does have a certain je ne sais quoi to it
But we digress
Although gas is expensive, and although my truck certainly doesnt get the same gas mileage as the Kia, most of the time I travel only 10 miles to my office in the morning and 10 miles back again in the evening I wouldn't use the truck for long journeys (except in the event of a Zombie Apocalypse, in which case all bets are off :-)
The thing is that today was the first day of spring. This is one time of the year that Gina gets the urge to plant a lot of flowers and "stuff" (we go through the same thing in the autumn). Sad to relate, we can't use Gina's car because she's a realtor and uses it to ferry people around (that's her excuse) so a couple of times each year we go down to a nursery about 10 miles away and she orders a bunch of stuff then I spend the rest of the weekend driving back and forth transporting it all for her (you can only move a limited amount on each run in a Kia). Now I can move the world!!!
The bottom line is that I am currently trucking around (pun intended) with a happy smile on my face. One thing I discovered when I went to get my tag and was parallel parking (see the image above) is that its really difficult when you are reversing to judge how close you are to the car behind you. In fact, I had to keep on getting out of the truck and walking back to see how well I was doing. As you can imagine, this makes one look like a bit of a drongo.
Fortunately, my friend Freddie Louis (freddielouis.com) runs an Auto Accessories business where his high-tech team installs everything from sunroofs to audio and video systems, and custom wheels to backup warning systems. Thus, in addition to a spray-on bed-liner, Freddy is going to install a backup camera for me, which will allow me to reverse my truck like a professional.
The camera itself fits into the frame that holds the tag plate. I was a little worried that I would have to have a small monitor screen sitting on my dashboard, but it turns out that this display is actually located in a special rear-view mirror that replaces your existing mirror. As soon as you put your vehicle into reverse, half of the mirror turns into a screen showing whats behind you.
If this is as good as I think its going to be, I may be tempted to install one in Ginas car. This is not that Im in any way implying that on multiple occasions shes reversed out of our garage into the basketball post (Im saying it outright [grin]). Ill be writing more about this little beauty (the backup camera, not Gina) once its been installed
If you found this article to be amusing and/or of interest, visit Programmable Logic Designline where in addition to my blogs on all sorts of "stuff" (also check out my Max's Cool Beans blog) you will find the latest and greatest design, technology, product, and news articles with regard to programmable logic devices of every flavor and size (FPGAs, CPLDs, CSSPs, PSoCs...).
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Northern Ireland's four main banks back in black after financial crisis
Northern Ireland's four main banks are now back in profit after a "painful and slow recovery", it has been confirmed. Dublin-headquartered Bank of Ireland became the last of the quartet to declare it got back into the black over the first six months of the year.
It revealed a £46m profit for its UK operation, which includes Northern Ireland, where it has 35 branches, and a joint venture providing current accounts to the Post Office.
That figure was in contrast to a loss of £97m a year earlier.
Ireland-wide, the bank – 14% of which is owned by the Irish taxpayer – had profits of €399m (£318m) compared to losses of €516m a year earlier.
Bank of Ireland was following suit after Danske Bank, Ulster Bank and First Trust parent Allied Irish Banks declared profits for the first six months of the year of £45m, £55m and €437m (£348m) respectively.
Danske Bank's profits relate solely to Northern Ireland operations, while AIB and Ulster Bank's cover the whole of Ireland.
The figure for AIB is not broken down in units so it is not clear how much profit has been made by First Trust. All four banks have been feeling the benefit of an improvement in the economy on both sides of the border.
And steadying property prices have also allowed the banks to reduce the amounts they've had to set aside for bad loans, also known as impairment charges.
There has been a fall in mortgage arrears for the banks, too, as a rise in employment has left people less likely to be struggling with mortgage repayments.
But economist John Simpson said recovery in the four – since the collapse of the sector was triggered by New York bank Lehman Brothers' implosion in 2008 – had been "painful and slow".
He said: "Simply to be able to trade profitably is only a modest achievement.
"High street retail banking with the scale of deposits on their books should be a safe business now that property and other asset values have stabilised."
And he said the varying ownership structures of the four banks was reflected in their respective recoveries.
The economist stated: "Ulster Bank is an all-island organisation which has survived with the support of its parent group, Royal Bank of Scotland, and has had major assistance to restructure its balance sheet.
"The Ulster Bank, north and south, should now use the new environment to rebuild its positive contribution to economic development."
Danske Bank – formerly known as Northern Bank – had been able to rely on capital reinforcement from its Danish owners.
And Bank of Ireland and First Trust were subsidiaries of Irish parent companies and had been supported through the bailout by the Irish Government in 2009.
Emmet Gaffney, an analyst and stockbroker with Investec, said Bank of Ireland and its fellow Irish lenders were benefiting from reduced costs, and were having to pay less to bond investors to issue new debt.
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text: Well, like the title says, took my CZ 550 American Safari Magnum in .458 Lott with a box of Hornady 500gr DGX and DGS ammo to the range for a first firing today. Was planning on shooting it at our 50 yrd outdoor range, but there were 4 or 5 people there shooting pistols (only about an 8 person range at the 50 yrd). Out of respect for other people's hearing, I went up to the 100yd range to shoot. Wasn't very happy about this because I don't plan on this being a 100 yd gun right off the bat for me. First thing I noticed when I loaded up 5 softs in the magazine and tried to chamber the top round was that it wasn't feeding very well, and I had to coax it in by gradually bumping the bolt forward bit by bit. I'll be looking into sending this out to AHR to have this worked over after that little bit of unreliable feeding. Next was the RECOIL! I'm no slouch when it comes to hard kicking guns. I like my handguns big, shooting high power loads, but this thing was an ANIMAL! I had no trouble controlling it, but my shoulders aching right now ! And I only got off 5 rounds of solids and five of softs! I may have to look into some mercury reducers if I don't get used to this round in the next 100 rounds or so. For now, I'll look into one of those padded shoulder inserts for practice sessions. On the plus side, I don't feel as if I was flinching by the last round. I will be looking for some reduced power load data to use for practice rounds to get used to handling and operating the rifle. Any suggestions/comments would be greatly appreciated! Brandon


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Wright Mountain is the highpoint of a dominant formation called Blue Ridge. Blue Ridge is the high country link between the Mount San Antonio and Mount Baden-Powell areas. Wright Mountain forms the southern mountainous wall backdrop for the community of Wrightwood. The entire Blue Ridge spine is crossed by the Pacific Crest Trail, from Lytle Creek to Vincents Gap. Wright Mountain can be climbed many ways the most popular being from Guffy Campground. The peak can be a easy 3.5 jaunt or a long trail hike along the PCT. It is a great peak to do in combinations with Benchmark Frost, Circle Mountain, Gobblers Knob, Ralston Peak, Pine Mountain, Dawson Peak, and Mount San Antonio. Wright Mountain is on the Hundred Peaks List of the Sierra Club. Route One is good to combine ascents with Pine Mountain and Dawson Peak. Route Two is good for combining ascents with Gobblers Knob.
Route 1 Guffy Campground
Getting there:
From the I-15 take the SR 138 exit. Turn left and go west on SR 138 to the junction with SR 2. Turn left and go southwest on SR 2 through Wrightwood and to the junction with N4 keeping to left on SR 2. About 2 miles from the N4 junction you will reach a large parking area on both sides of the road. On the left side turnout is the entrance for Blue Ridge Road fireroad. Continue on Blue Ridge Road which passes first through Mt. High Ski Area and then Blue Ridge Campground. Continue pass until you reach Guffy Campground a little over 5 miles from the start. Do not park at a campsite unless you plan on using it that night. There is scattered day parking.
Hike to the eastern end of the campground going along a ridge that hits the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). Follow the PCT past a the Acorn Trail Interesction and continue to the high saddle connecting to Wright Mountain. The saddle and summit area thick in trees. Take the a use trail that turns into a old abandoned road. Find the highest point with a large rock cairn near a cliff drop viewpoint. The summit is difficult with all the trees but it is a very finite area overall. Great views of Table Mountain and of Wrightwood.
Roundtrip is 3.5 miles with 750 feet of gain.
Route 2 Gobblers Knob- PCT
From the I-15 take the SR-138 exit and turn left heading west. Go a little over a mile reaching the intersection with Lone Pine Canyon Road on the left. Turn left and go 5.5 miles looking for dirt road 3N31 on the left just pass gated Clyde Ranch. 3N31 has a small sign post. Take this road for 3 miles reaching a junction at the ridge, turn right. Continue to the end of the road, a little over .5 miles. Park at the turnout.
From the parking area go to the east end of the turnout and find the PCT trailhead. Take the PCT for about 4 miles until it reaches the high junction with saddle connecting it to Wright Mountain. Walk through the woods on the use trail and old road bed reaching the summit cairn.
Roundtrip is around 8 miles with atleast 2000 feet of gain.
Red TapeYou will need a Adventure Pass to park at Gobblers Knob or at Guffy Campground. Adventure Passes are available at many stores in Wrightwood and at the SR-138 Here are some of these locations.
Cinnamons Bakery
1350 Hwy. 2 Unit B
Wrightwood, CA 92397
Annual, Daily
Wrightwood Mini - Mart Arco
1315 Hwy 2
Wrightwood, CA 92397
Annual, Daily, Secondary
Volunteers Of The Angeles National Forest
Grassy Hollow Visitor Center
Wrightwood, CA 92397
Annual, Daily, Secondary
Jensens Market
1340 Hwy 2
Wrightwood, CA 92397
Annual, Daily, Secondary
CampingCamping information can be found here at Angeles National Forest. The two most logical campgrounds to use along Blue Ridge Road are the lower more western Blue Ridge Campground and the higher more eastern Guffy Campground.
External LinksFor current road conditions go to Angeles National Forest and/or San Bernardino National Forest.
Wright Mountain is on the Hundred Peaks List.
Visit the webpage for the city of Wrightwood for local information.
For sking information visit Mt. High Ski Resort.
For more information on the Pacific Crest Trail.
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New school board gets down to business
The newest members of the Farmington School Board took on some of its most important roles at the first meeting of the new year.
Tera Lee, who was the top finisher in the Nov. 2 election, was elected chair at Monday night's meeting. Brian Treakle, who finished second, was elected vice chair and Melissa Sauser, the third of the new board, members was elected clerk.
There were a few stumbles as the new board members found their foot
ing. At one point Lee took a motion and a second on an item, then tried to move forward before the vote was taken.
Lee said she read up on Robert's Rules of Order before the meeting, but ran into some situations she didn't expect.
"I thought I was prepared, but I guess it's a steep learning curve when you're new," Lee said.
Tim Burke will serve as the board's treasurer.
Burke joined with the newcomers in the two elections in which there was more than one candidate. Julie McKnight, acting as board chair to open Monday's meeting, nominated Julie Singewald to serve as board chair but Burke nominated Lee. Singewald nominated McKnight for the clerk position, but Burke nominated Sauser.
There was only one nomination for the vice chair and clerk positions.
The way the elections were handled -- and the way the board handed out assignments to committees -- had board member Julie McKnight warning the new board members about the way they conduct their business. She pointed out that settling board business outside of regular board meetings is a violation of open meeting laws.
"It was evident these positions were decided before the meeting," said McKnight, the longest-tenured of the board members. "Going forward, you can't do things that way."


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White Wedding Cake With Drapes And Gumpaste Flowers
First time doing some wired flowers and fondant draping. The cakes were great - bottom tier chocolate cake with strawberry IMBC+mascarpone, fresh strawberries and dark chocolate shavings, top tier vanilla-lemon cake with lemon IMBC+mascarpone, pieces of candied lemon. I used lemon curd mixed with IMBC and mascarpone to get the right taste and it was incredible (and I don't like lemon at all :)) I also tried mango+limette version with IMBC and mascarpone with chocolate or vanilla cake and it was gorgeous... TFL!


text: A 3 star Arena Hotel is located in the southeastern part of Minsk on the riverbank of Svislach, near one of the major sport facilities of the city - Chizhovka Arena. The hotel has 107 rooms. Each room has a private bathroom with shower, TV, telephone, WiFi Internet. You can eat in the hotel restaurant, which serves national and European cuisine, or go to one of the nearby restaurants and cafes. In addition the hotel offer lobby bar. On request, the food, drinks and breakfast can be delivered to your room. For business activity the hotel has a conference room with modern equipment and meeting room. Other facilities include a bicycle rental service, a gym and free WiFi and also free parking is available on site.


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General Motors Co. opens an advanced design studio in Seoul, South Korea, relocating a similar operation from Bupyeong, Incheon, and tasking the unit with leading global mini- and small-car styling.
The GM Daewoo design studio opens its doors alongside Seoul's designation this year as the 2010 World Design capital, and GM Global Design chief Ed Welburn says its employees will draw inspiration from the stylish Gangnam area.
Gangnam is considered the nation's center for culture, arts, fashion and industry. It also ranks as Seoul's most affluent neighborhood and home to a number of global and Korean brands, trendy clubs and restaurants.
"Our car designers get inspiration from life, and Gangnam is a place where people worship design, style and fashion," Welburn says in a statement.
"Our Korean designers will sample perfection every day surrounded by some of the top brands and fashion houses in the world, and this ideal location will nurture their creative souls."
GM Daewoo designers already play a major role in the development of regional and global GM products, most notably having penned the Chevrolet Cruze compact car. The Cruze launched last year and now sells in four regions and 60 countries, with a much-anticipated arrival in the U.S. in the third quarter.
The design team fashioned the all-new Chevy Spark minicar, as well, currently selling in a number of countries and coming to the U.S. on an unconfirmed timetable. The soon-to-be-launched lineup of Chevy Aveo-based subcompact cars also are products of GM Daewoo.
GM now considers the Seoul advanced-design unit, one of 10 design centers worldwide for the auto maker, the new hub for global mini- and small-vehicle development.
GM celebrated the opening studio last night with a party at Seoul's W Hotel, an event attended by leaders in government, local celebrities and design-industry stars.
As 2010 World Design capital, a designation awarded annually by the Paris-based International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, Seoul receives recognition this year for its accomplishments and contributions to the field of design.