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Gary Null: The purpose of today's program is to do what the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Miami Herald, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Enquirer, the San Francisco Examiner, and other publications have refused to do. They are fully capable. They have experienced and talented journalists. They have resources. They have refused to look for the truth, in the subject of HIV and AIDS.
Today, this is a press conference. We will be sharing information that hitherto for, you have not been aware of.
We are not here to attack any individual. Instead, we are here to challenge the basic assumptions by which you the public, your physicians, our legislators that appropriate money for this, and our scientific community have all been guilty of not looking for the truth and accepting as absolute fact anything that has been said by people who have, in effect, have de facto control over the entire AIDS establishment. Specifically, Dr. Robert Gallo and Dr. Anthony Fauci, and also a Dr. David Ho, and Dr. Luc Montagnier. There are others, but those are the four pillars of the entire AIDS community.
Also, there are organizations, at one time, more that 75,000 foundations or organizations who were out preaching the gospel that HIV equals AIDS. That if you were diagnosed with an antibody test, you will die, whether it is six months or six years or twenty years depending on what the current political dogma was at the time. You had to be hit hard and multiple times and very quickly, according to David Ho, with a lot of different drugs.
This no longer represents science. This is more of a religion. And those who chose, at any time, for any legitimate reason to challenge this were considered the heretics and were offered up for public ridicule. Scientists from all denominations and all backgrounds who chose to offer any legitimate critique of why the HIV equals AIDS hypothesis was defective lost research grants. Their reputations were smeared. They no longer could get students in their classes at prestigious universities. [They] could no longer publish in the respected peer-reviewed journals. In effect, they were persona non grata. They were marginalized.
The very tactics used by the tobacco industry to attack its critics for a hundred years in which it never lost a law suit. The tobacco industry was never found guilty for a hundred years because they kept negating the science. Today, we have something similar in the world of AIDS. No one, not Bill Gates, not Bill Clinton, no one questions that HIV is the primary cause of AIDS, until today. We will question it. But we will use science to question it.
It is my hope that at the conclusion of this two hour special which will be posted and all supporting documents which I have individually reviewed and can independently verify are accurate, that you will use this information, if you are a journalist, as a starting point to realize that there are 2700 leading critics including some of the greatest scientists and clinicians in the world, Nobel Prize winners, who also agree with us.
There is no major media willing to offer a debate. Multiple times I have asked people who hold different points of view, please come on my program and debate the issue. They have refused to do so. And when Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier recently were on this program when I began to ask questions that simply challenged the basis for the discovery and isolation of the HIV virus they immediately hung up. I was fortunate to even have them on at all, because they have refused any open debate. And that is also true of Fauci and all the others.
Gary Null: Let us go now to our first panelist, David Crowe.
Gary Null: I will be mentioning some quotes from some of the people who we simply did not have them on the program per se. We can only get so many people on. But I will share their views with specific quotes and we will do it by categories such as the politics of AIDS and the HIV virus isolation and the drugs and the antibody test. So, before we go to you let me share a few views on the politics of AIDS and Robert Gallo.
Gary Null: This is from Dr. Hiram Canton, PhD, professor ethicist, Head of the School of Applied Ethics at
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
"The first casualty of the War on AIDS was the integrity of science. The exact moment of the crime can be pinpointed. It was in April 1984 at a press conference where then Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler declared that government scientist Robert Gallo had discovered the viral cause of AIDS.
Heckler held the discovery as 'yet another miracle for American medicine and science and a victory over a dreaded disease.' If smoke and mirror tricks are miracles, then miracle it was. Neither Gallo nor the Pasteur Institute proved that the virus was pathogenic. Indeed, they did not even isolate the virus, as the Pasteur Institute later admitted. But the spin doctors at the National Institute of Health had organized leading journals to endorse Secretary Heckler's miracle with the seal of science. From that moment all AIDS research and policies was based on a speculation converted to dogma by bureaucratic power.
This initial public execution of public integrity unleashed a propaganda machine that expands Heckler's initial, obvious whopper, 'victory over a dreaded disease' into a never ending sickness saga that extorts money and grinds millions into the muck of bad medicine. Be informed. Withdraw your consent from the most malignant fraud ever perpetrated in the name of medicine. Be aware that the primary truth in the AIDS war is that powerful agencies have declared war on you and your loved ones regardless of your HIV status. Be aware, AIDS science is 90% mindless repetition and 10% deeply, inconsistent findings of no clinical value."
Gary Null: And as I was mentioning earlier with over 75,000 organizations making money, livelihoods, and reputations off of AIDS and the dogma. None of those individuals or organizations are going to look for the truth. And indeed, if they were presented with the truth would have to immediately have to assail it.
Gary Null: Separately, from Professor David Rasnid, a PhD Biochemist. He is the founder, creator of the Protease inhibitor. And he, at the time, was working at the University of California.
"In 1990 at the San Francisco AIDS conference HIV co-discovered Luc Montagnier announced that HIV did not after all kill T-cells and could not be the cause of AIDS. Within hours of making this announcement he was attacked by the very industry he had helped create. The HIV hypotheses of AIDS is the biggest scientific-medical blunder of the 20th century. The evidence is overwhelming that AIDS is not contagious, is not sexually transmitted, and is not caused by HIV. The physicians who know or suspected the truth are embarrassed or afraid to admit that HIV tests are absurd and should be outlawed. And that the anti-HIV drugs are injuring and killing people. As a scientist who has studied AIDS for more than 24 years I have determined that AIDS has little to do with science and is not even primarily a medical issue. AIDS is a sociological phenomena held together by fear creating a kind of medical McCarthyism that has transgressed and collapsed all the rules of science and has imposed a brew of belief and pseudo-science on a vulnerable public."
Gary Null: And finally from Dr. Donald Miller, medical doctor, Harvard and Dartsmith, Professor of Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, and he says the following:
"AIDS is a government-defined disease. The CDC and the government funded investigators accept as fact the supposition that HIV causes AIDS and is sexually-transmitted. This is not to be questioned but this HIV equals AIDS model does not jibe with the true facts of either. Only one in one thousand unprotected sexual contacts transmits HIV. Only one in 275 US citizens has antibodies to this virus. Consequently, the average uninfected person would need to have 275 thousand random, unprotected sexual contacts to acquire sexually-transmitted HIV. The greatest threat to the life in the United States and the rest of the world is not the 30 diseases called AIDS. It's the 250 billion dollar AIDS industry composed of government, academic, medical, and industrial interests in the United States. I have concluded that AIDS is a scientifically dishonest construct, and exemplified in the death of my friend, Arthur Ashe. The lies that we have been told make it all the more deadly."
Gary Null: That is our opening.
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This Gary Null Program, 7/13/09, is a Special Program titled 'Deconstructing the AIDS Myth'
Gary Null's three panelists are a multi-award winning journalist and world leading investigators:
David Crowe, Rethinking AIDS president,
Rethinking AIDS, the group for the scientific reappraisal of the hiv/aids hypothesis.
Celia Ingrid Farber, author and website host.
Author of "Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS," Melville House Publishing,
Hoboken, NJ 2006,
[Book review by Felton Davis with 34 footnotes at http://18.104.22.168/search?q=cache:S5AQFtcDwbsJ:aras.ab.ca/articles/popular/20090314-FarberBookReview-Felton.pdf+syphilis,+New+York+City,+Dr.,+Gary+Null,&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com] and
the author of "AIDS & South Africa: A Contrary Conference in Pretoria," by Celia Farber, New York Press, May 25, 2000, found at www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/cfmbeki.htm
and author of the article "Out of Control: AIDS & the Corruption of Medical Science," by Celia Farber, Harper's Magazine, March 2006. www.harpers.org/OutOfControl.html
and author of "Sins of Omission: The AZT Scandal," by Celia Farber, Spin Magazine, November 1989
and "AZT Roulette: The impossible choices facing HIV-positive women," Celia Farber, Mothering, Sept/Oct 1998;
and "Lethal HIV Drug-Cocktail Chiller," by Celia Farber, New York Post, March 14, 2000;
and "Are AIDS drugs worse than the disease?" by Celia Farber, New York Press, Volume 17, Issue 52,
November 7, 2006, found at www.nypress.com/17/52/news&columns/celiafarber.cfm
Her website is www.thetruthbarrier.com
Janine Roberts, author, investigator.
Fear of the Invisible: An Investigative Journey into a reckless and contaminated Medical Industry, by Janine Roberts, published by Impact Investigative Media Productions, ISBN-10 #0955917727, 310 pages, June 30, 2008. US$19.95 or UK £12.99 http://www.amazon.com/Fear-Invisible-Janine-Roberts/dp/0955917727/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247954667&sr=1-1
Gary calls the following four people the "pillars of the entire AIDS community."
Dr. Robert Gallo (1937 - ), Robert Charles Gallo is the director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He and two longtime scientific collaborators, Robert R. Redfield and William A. Blattner, co-founded the institute in 1996 in a partnership including the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore. In 2005, Gallo co-founded Profectus BioSciences, Inc., which develops and commercializes technologies to reduce the morbidity and mortality caused by human viral diseases, including HIV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gallo referenced, 7-18-09.
In the mid 80's, Gallo and his team co-discovered the virus they believed to be responsible for the killer disease known as AIDS. In addition, Gallo and his team developed a test that identified the virus in humans - the HIV antibody blood test. This test makes possible the early identification of infected people, allowing for early and better treatment resulting in longer life expectancies for those living with HIV.
http://aids.about.com/cs/expertadvice/p/gallo.htm referenced 7-18-09.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci (1940 - ), Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984, Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the U.S. National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Dr. Fauci serves as one of the key advisors to the White House and Department of Health and Human Services on global AIDS issues …. http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/about/directors/ referenced 7-18-09.
Dr. David Ho (1952 - ), Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City since 1990, named professor and physician at Rockefeller University since 1996. Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1996. In 2006, Dr. Ho was a recipient of a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant for HIV vaccine research. http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/abstract.php?id=63 referenced 7-18-09.
He was a resident in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1981 when he came into contact with some of the first reported cases of what was later identified as AIDS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._David_Ho
Dr. Luc Antoine Montagnier (1932 - ), Pasteur Institute (French: Institut Pasteur) in Paris.
Luc Montagnier, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and colleagues discovered the two HIV viruses that cause AIDS, in 1983 and 1985, to be honored by the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteur_Institute referenced 7-18-09.
This radio news conference program questioning the hypothesis that the HIV virus equals AIDS is also posted for listening or download at http://garynull.org
2:20-4:30 AM, Wednesday, July 15, 2009
A second rebroadcast of the Gary Null program, 7/13/09.
4:30-5:30 AM, Wednesday, July 15, 2009, Gary Null live.
On Real Player, 2:54:23.9
Some Excerpts from an open phone discussion of the AIDS/HIV myth.
Gary Null: Why don't you do this? Why don't you go to GaryNull.com [www.garynull.com] ? g-a-r-y-n-u-l-l-dot com. Go to the section on AIDS and first and foremost read the 2,000 plus statements from some of the brightest minds in the world who believed in the HIV equals AIDS hypothesis until they began their own independent investigation and found that it was all lies. Now, these are very demanding and exacting scientist[s] and they spoke out because they were so angry that the scientific community had been used and abused in this way.
Then, I have a textbook, on AIDS, in lay language, if fact, I intentionally wrote as, it was a philosophical treatise with Professor Jim [James] Feast, using Galileo and some historical figures and what happened in their day too more progressive-minded people throughout history, as an example of the socialization process of manipulating science today. It's virtually identical. So, you would find the style interesting. But you would find that the facts are important because we deconstruct each argument in 700 pages with a protocol that's over a 120 page chapter on how I was able to heal people completely who had AIDS-defining illness, whether it was Pneumocistis Carini pneumonia, Karposi's Sarcoma, Thrush, and get them back to complete health.
That's in there as well. There's 5,000 scientific references.
In addition, you can go to youtube [www.youtube.com] and watch
AIDS Inc., [www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQHXsmaxCiQ a 6:51 trailer of AIDS, Inc.]
Deconstructing the Myth of AIDS [www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoxCtYBXNpc 10:59 video ],
The Pain, Profit and Politics of AIDS [Gary Null podcast in three parts],
AIDS: A Second Opinion, and
AIDS: The Real Heroes [ Part 1. 15:23, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbFGJwC8xX4 and
Part 2, 14:02, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTHhTpmmz_I and
Part 3, 13:37. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWfU8b9DQmE&feature=PlayList&p=75E610AC11E39C46&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=18].
Any of those multi-award winning documentaries are there, free, for you to watch.
Then you can look at the different articles that are on AIDS. Plus all the evidence that my panelists presented today we reviewed prior to the program and then had independent scholarly confirmation of each and every fact. So, no one was stating anything on this two-hour special that we had not independently verified as true. So this will give you weeks of reading so that you can take your time and absorb this information and do so in a proper, challenging, and analytical manner. OK? 2:18:12
Gary Null: I had five women come to see me over a period of six months. They all had similar characteristics. They were in their mid 50s. They were people who were well-educated and had what would be considered an upper middle-class lifestyle, a couple of them were actually in the wealthy class. They were socially conscious. They were doing good things for society. But when I started to pay attention, I look for patterns, because I frequently see as many as 15 to 20 people a day. They all had fatigue. They all had night sweats. They all had aches in their joints. They all had been to multiple, orthodox medical specialists prior to seeing me. None of them knew each other. They came from different parts of the country.
I asked, 'had you had hepatitis blood tests?' And they said, 'no. Why would I have it?' I had them all take hepatitis blood test and they were all hepatitis positive. I worked with them on a hepatitis protocol and today they're all normal. Why is it that none of their doctors thought to associate their fatigue with hepatitis? Because none of them would have been in the risk category. But, that's now. When I talked with them about their earlier life experiences, they all had been in high-risk groups. Whatever we do at some point in our life can stay with us the rest of our lives.
For example, if you smoke from the age of 16 to 30, and now you're 60, and you haven't smoked in 30 years, there's still a high probability that you'll develop lung cancer. Because of what we now know about DNA, how it's cumulative, the effects that that damage has on Telomere shortening and the inability of the body's cells to control the defective DNA. But we forget about what we did when we're no longer doing it. And our mind is, if were no longer doing something that's bad, then it couldn't be bad.
When, now let's segue into AIDS. When I began to work with people through Dr. Steven Gaiazza, the number one gay doctor in New York City. Virtually every patient he had was gay. And he was gay. Gaiazza called me. And I knew of him, I had never actually spoken with him before. And he said he needed some help. And I said, 'on what?' He had seen a syndrome and he couldn't figure it out. So I met with him and spoke with a total of 100 of his patients. They all got together and we chatted and it was in my studio on 92nd Street. And then I said, 'you all seem to have the following in common, you all go out a lot, at least five nights a week. You engage in unprotected anal intercourse. You take amyl nitrate so that you can have multiple sensations of orgasm. You're repeatedly infected with sexually-transmitted diseases. Now, Steven's specialty was syphilis. And all these men had syphilis and were being treated with an aquial [procaine] penicillin, which passes the blood-brain barrier, to destroy the spirochete. But they also had hepatitis. And they hadn't been tested for that. And when he tested them, every one of them had hepatitis. And they all had herpes-6, which is devastating.
So what they were being treated for, but not successfully, is because they hadn't been treated for everything they actually had. In a period of less than three months those that followed a very strict protocol were able to regain their health. At the end of about 12 months even the most resistant of their conditions had been helped. Gaiazza then realized that he had too narrow a perimeter that he was looking at in these men. Now mind you, were talking about 1977. So, we're talking about the height of the sexual revolution.
Now what was interesting, I was seeing the same phenomena in fast-track swingers that were using amyl nitrate, cocaine, and had multiple sexual-transmitted diseases because few people were using condoms at that time. There was little anal intercourse, but there was an awful lot of constant sexually-transmitted diseases. And a lot of those people smoked and drank as well. So they had multiple things hitting their immune systems. Because, once again, when I worked with them and they gave all that up, not healthy sex, but they gave up the unprotected sex. And they built their immune systems. They returned to health. That was what we would call today AIDS.
Both the heterosexuals recovered completely and the gays recovered completely when they rebuilt their immune systems and they stopped any behavior, whether it was the cocaine, the ecstasy, the amyl nitrates, the alcohol, the smoking. Now, smoking doesn't cause AIDS and drinking doesn't cause AIDS, but it's a contributing factor when you start adding on, how many other things that you put on this branch before you on the branch and everything else you put on the branch break the branch. Yes, it's about the tipping point. At what point do you tip?
For example, look at Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton ate cheese burgers, smoked cigars, drank alcohol, didn't exercise (there was some meaningless jogging occasionally) and he was very stressed. Any one of those, he could have probably have lived a longer life. But at some point the accumulative effects of that caused a tipping. Shortly before he was rushed into a hospital to have a triple-bypass operation to save his life, he had been diagnosed as a clean bill of health in an exam that all the Presidents get. So, here's the best doctors in America, supposedly, who are working on the President of the United States, former President of the United States, and they missed it all because you don't find what you're not looking for. So, and I'm saying that Bill Clinton will probably end up with Alzheimer's in another five years. 2:29
Caller: Hi, Gary.
Gary Null: Hello.
Caller: My name is Guadalupe, you talk about the people who are misdiagnosed with AIDS having very destructive lifestyles, I wonder how Arthur Ashe, conservative and very reserved as a tennis player. He didn't even put up with McEnroe's antics. I wondering how he, how could he…?
Gary Null: It was not his lifestyle that destroyed him.
It was the fact that he had had massive heart disease. Did you forget that? The reason he went in the hospital was that his heart was gone. It was his heart surgery that gave him infections. The probability was that those infections included hepatitis. And then, instead of accepting that he had hepatitis and treating the hepatitis, which is rampant in a lot of hospitals through surgery and blood-to-blood contact because he was also given transfusions. They immediately put him on AZT and then DDI and DDC and protease inhibitors.
So, like Ryan White who was just a hemophiliac the more drugs they gave him, the sicker he got. The sicker he got, the more drugs we have to give him. Ryan White was getting 1800 mg of AZT a day. If any doctor in the world, or listen, forget that, if any doctor in the United States were to give 1800 mg of AZT, they would lose their license to practice medicine. They could be found guilty and bankrupted in malpractice. But that's how much that young boy was getting. Kimberly Mergalis, the same way.
So, understand what I'm saying. They're saying, 'Ah, you're sick so we have to give you the drugs because when Arthur Ashe was diagnosed, he was following David Ho's, 'hit 'em hard, hit 'em fast' theory of give a lot of different drugs, all at once, and in high potencies. And that destroyed his immune system. Now, I happen to know this for a fact because Arthur Ashe spent a lot of time with me. He was in my clinical treatment room at 72nd and Broadway, almost every Saturday, all day. He would sit there with his notepad and talk with people and every person in that room with HIV, or ah, with AIDS defining who had been diagnosed with AIDS. He saw them over several months get better. He saw them and their medical records. He was an extremely curious person but at the end of the day he didn't want to. He didn't want to disappoint his doctor. He never started the Holistic practice.
He came to the Apollo Theater. I was the only white guy that filled the Apollo Theater. So many people came that we did it for five straight days. Every seat was taken, standing room only. It was a mob scene. And I was lecturing. And there he was. He was in the audience. I invited him up on stage. And people said, 'Are you going to do a holistic therapy?' 'I'm looking at it. I'm looking at it.'
He came down to Tony Brown's Journal [in 1992] to sit in.
And if you go to youtube [www.youtube.com], under Gary Null,
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crDPBahMjJk and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjgJm-YcOgw&NR=1 and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMaNMLvj0sQ&NR=1 ] you'll see Arthur Ashe.
And you'll see a person named Louie who for 13 months had been on a protocol and had every AIDS-defining illness you can imagine and today was completely cured. He had his medical records, before, and during and after. And people thought. Oh boy, you know, was that easy? Well, no, sit there six days a week as Louie did.
And all these people were treated for free I might mention. I paid for their therapy because there is no free therapy. If you got, you know, 200,000 mg of vitamin C, intravenous, with glutathione, the cost on that was $60 bucks, per day.
And so, anyhow, there was Louie with his medical records. But Arthur had actually been to the center and met Louie on several occasions. He had examined his medical records and his blood workups. All the blood workups were done at Liberty Labs, or at one of the major labs in the city and so there was no question that he went from near death to complete and total wellness. Now Louie had been an intra-venous drug user. He was straight, but an intra-venous drug user. So that the people that you saw coming down with AIDS were not the gay community, but the fast-tracks, the intravenous drug users and the hemophiliacs. That's who was coming down then. And people say well, I didn't do anything bad. Then you go into their background you see what they did that was destructive. Some people didn't want to acknowledge their earlier habits.
And, so, that was Arthur Ashe. So, Arthur had the heart surgery. Arthur had very serious life-challenging heart condition. And he was in, he was contaminated, he had multiple viruses. And acknowledged they, those weren't being treated. But, right up to within a week before he died I could see he was getting worse. And I said, 'why don't you start the protocol? You've spoken with 50, 60 people. You've seen every one has returned to health. You've spoken with over 12 physicians, Board Certified physicians in the office. You've, you've, you've read the medical records. I've given you the literature. I've given you the names over 100 long-term AIDS survivors who are using natural therapies.' The other ones were not using my therapies but they were using other people's therapies.' I says, 'What more do you need?' And you realize, it was not AIDS that killed Arthur Ashe, it was his belief system.
Caller: I appreciate you clearing all that up Gary.
Gary Null: OK.
Caller: And I appreciate all that you do. And I look forward to your continued work. Thank You.
Gary Null: Well, the difference is …. Here's how it works. Behind the scenes of this station, behind the scenes of this Foundation [the Pacifica Foundation], you will have a few, just a few individuals who belong to Act Up. Who will try to lobby behind the scenes who will lobby to get my program off the air. They will bring pressure to bear on Grace Aarons, the Executive Director, and start a campaign to get her fired. They're doing that as we speak, because she dares allow a program on the air that seeks the truth. Now I've asked these individuals 'come on the air and debate me.' They won't do it.
Then again, you saw when Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier were on the air, and I was polite as I can be, but when I got into the tough questions, they hung up. They're what I call truth deniers. The difference is I've written textbooks, done award-winning documentaries, written over 30 articles and do press conferences on the air. Put the documentation up. So, I'm willing, my panelists are willing to put our reputations on the line by showing what we have. And when you make a statement on the internet it's all over the world. You can't take it back. When you make a statement on the air, it's there as a matter of historical reference. They never do that.
They will not come up and debate us. Because they know if they debated myself, or Robert, ah, if they debated Professor Charles Geshekter or if they debated Peter Deusberg or David Rasnik, or Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize winner, or Dr. John Thomas, they would be shown to be idiots. So, they won't come near a debate. They work behind the scenes. But we're on the record. 2:43
Caller: Oh great, I just want to say that Gary Null, I respect all the work you're doing.
You're a true dissident and we need more people like you. I wanted to talk a little bit about the nature of AIDS. And what is confusing to me is how people say HIV does not cause AIDS which means, to my understanding a like, a guy like Magic Johnson be HIV positive for years and years and years.
Gary Null: He's not HIV positive. Here's the game. And I got this call from Magic Johnson's top person asking would I help Magic Johnson. [We] had a long conversation. I sent him my protocols, by the way. Now, normally I don't go on the record with anyone I help. I've helped over 1300 very famous people, including members of the Royal Family, including people who are chair people of Committees in Congress and Senate.
If you took half the most famous people in Hollywood figures, I mean the biggest names in the history of Hollywood. When I was a young man and with a cross-over audience with best-selling books and I would visit every Monday and beyond LA, Los Angeles with Ruben, Regis Philbin. I would come in on Friday morning. And from Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I would be going around to different very old world, old film stars and giving them counsel. They were retired. And most of them were physical wrecks. Never betrayed a confidence. Now I've counseled young celebrities. Never betray a confidence.
But Magic Johnson, I will go on the record and state that I would like Magic Johnson to have a blood chemistry test where I would tell what he would be tested for, Herpes 1, 2, and 6, and hepatitis. I would like to see, does Magic Johnson have herpes? Because if he has herpes, herpes will test you positive for the HIV virus. 2:47:08
Gary Null: And if they then understand that the HIV, fraudulent, antibody test gives false positive correlations with over 67 separate conditions. And those conditions include the flu vaccine, hepatitis, pregnancy, herpes 1, herpes 2, herpes 6, hepatitis, measles, arthritis, malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition, and a whole lot more, and over 56 conditions. Then what happens is, you don't have HIV. But the medical community says 'ah, you've got HIV because you've tested positive.' And then you start getting the treatment. And it depends upon how strong your immune system is and at what level you are getting it. And then, you'll either survive a long time if you aren't taking the drugs all the time. 2:54


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Approach "Black Dossier" " the long-anticipated third volume of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's acclaimed graphic novel series " with lowered expectations. It is not the work of greatness as the others, even though the concept of imaging Victorian literary characters as superheroes remains intact (as does the handsome built-in cloth bookmark).
Rather than a concrete, sustainable story, Moore has put forth a sliver of plot, supplemented by a wealth of near-nonsense. The story centers on adventurer Allan Quatermain and vampire victim Mina Harker, casting them as spies, and somehow looking decades younger. They're out to acquire the titular secret documents which detail the entire history of the League.
Trying to stop them is an Orwellian government and a certain dapper, womanizing British secret agent/cad named Jimmy. (Legal reasons prevent Moore from calling him James Bond.)
It doesn't take long for Quatermain and Harker to obtain the secret file, the contents of which then disrupt the narrative in three separate, chaotic chunks, most dreadfully boring. This is Moore indulging his own quirkiness rather than committing to telling a story.
Documents of varying interest include:
" a lost Shakespeare play
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" postcard replicas and
" a Tijuana bible (look it up).
Moore goes overboard with the whimsy in a kitchen-sink wrap-up in 3-D, glasses included. It's as if all the tricks and inserts are trying to make up for a deficit in story " sad, because Moore is a master of telling tales in this format.
The good thing about "Black Dossier" is that it plants all sorts of hints about further "League" adventures to come. Hopefully those will be back on track, rather than this loose transitional work.
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The writer Sue Monk Kidd found the voice that her new book needed when she became smitten with an enslaved girl who is only a footnote to history.
"I could hear Hetty in my head quite clearly," Kidd said. "She would talk and talk and talk and talk to me."
In that novel, The Invention of Wings (Viking), Kidd gives Hetty what she never had in life: powerfully eloquent words that receive a weight equal to those of her owner, Sarah Grimké, who became a prominent abolitionist and advocate for women. The novel weaves fact and fiction as it considers 35 years of the women's lives, beginning in Charleston, S.C., in 1803, with their alternating first-person accounts. Hetty goes first.
"As much as I revere Sarah Grimké and her sister, Angelina, I fell in love with my character Handful," Kidd said in a recent interview at the Midtown Manhattan office of her agent. Handful is the nickname for Hetty, who historical records show was given to Sarah Grimké by her parents, when Handful was 10 and Sarah 11.
Historical figures
That gift of one child to another is how Kidd begins her novel, which also features Angelina, the wealthy, slaveholding Grimké family's younger daughter, a fighter for the same causes as Sarah. Other historical figures play roles, too, including Denmark Vesey, who planned a slave revolt in Charleston, and the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
Kidd discovered that the real Hetty died young for reasons unknown, but, in the novel, she has a different sort of life.
Kidd, 65, speaks with a soft Southern accent, at a relaxed pace, though when she talks about race, history and women's rights, it is with a youthful intensity. She lives in Florida but was in New York ahead of a multicity book tour that will bring her to Dallas next month.
Wings, her third novel, picked up some high-frequency buzz when it was selected for Oprah Winfrey's book club in December. In a video announcing the choice, Winfrey called the novel layered and gripping.
Kidd, while happy to have the attention, was already a best-selling author back in 2002 with her first novel, The Secret Life of Bees, about a troubled white teenager embraced by black beekeeping women in the 1960s South. In 2008, it became a feature film starring Queen Latifah and Dakota Fanning. The Mermaid Chair (2005), her second novel, was also a best-seller and was turned into a Lifetime network movie.
The Invention of Wings, she said, was born of her desire to go to "ground zero" to wrestle with the racial issues that loomed large in her life as a child of the '50s and '60s, growing up white in the South.
"It seemed to me that we have had 246 years of slavery, and we could still barely look at it," she said. "When I wrote The Secret Life of Bees, I was writing about civil rights. This time, I thought I wanted to go to the very roots of racism. It's as much a part of our history as any victory and war, or anything else we like to celebrate in this country. We've had slavery as a nation longer than we've had abolition."
Growing up, Kidd said, the stories that resonated with her came from the black female domestics in her parents' and grandparents' homes.
"My social consciousness, my own tiny little moral compass developing as a girl in Georgia in the '50s and '60s was seeded in many ways by them, because of the stories they told, just witnessing their lives," she said.
Taking risks
It can be "a big risk" for a white novelist to write in the voice of a black character, said Kathryn McKee, an associate professor of Southern studies and English at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford.
"It's the risk of never being able to stop telling the white girl's story," said McKee, who had not read Monk's novel. "By putting the stories together, perhaps we get closer to the truth, whatever that might be," she said.
Kidd, though, said she was less concerned "about appropriation" than "about inclusion."
"It was through fighting for the rights of others that these women discovered they were oppressed," she said, returning to the past and the Grimkés. "Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart."
Felicia R. Lee, The New York Times
Plan your life
Sue Monk Kidd will appear at 7 p.m. Feb. 18 at Highland Park United Methodist Church, 3300 Mockingbird Lane, Dallas. Free (books available for purchase).
A 6 p.m. reception with the author, $30 per person, includes a copy of the book. 214-523-2240. hpumc.org/authorslive.


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The Sticky Faith Guide For Your Family
A New Book and 5 New New Short Films to Help Your Family!
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- Margaret Feinberg, author of Wonderstruck and The Sacred Echo


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Video: The importance of David Ortiz
February, 13, 2012
By ESPNBoston.com
In the video above, ESPN's Tim Kurkjian talks about what David Ortiz means to the Red Sox:
"David Ortiz may not be the leader that he was 10 years ago, but he's still Big Papi in a lot of ways, and Bobby (Valentine) needs a leader on that club. You saw last year David Ortiz can still hit."
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New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- In an incident which has left police personnel of the Jyoti Nagar police station baffled, an eight-year-old girl was mysteriously shot at in her thigh while travelling to attend a wedding ceremony with her family members in a car on Wednesday night.
While the police are baffled because they did not find any bullet entry hole in the car in which the girl was travelling, her family members were also clueless about the gunshot wound she suffered.
The preliminary investigation of police cite claims of the girl's family who maintained that she complained of burning sensation in her left leg during the journey. Police believe that the girl possibly was shot at during celebratory firing and her family concocted a fake story to avoid police action.
A senior police officer said the matter came to light after they received a call from the GTB hospital saying a girl was admitted there with bullet injury in her thigh.
Disha Verma, a resident of Gautampuri at New Seelampur, was on her way to West Jyoti Nagar in a car to attend a wedding.
"On the way she complained of burning sensation in her left leg on which her father Neeraj found her bleeding. They immediately rushed her to a nearby nursing home in Shahdara where doctors referred her to GTB hospital after first-aid treatment. Doctors at GTB hospital confirmed that she had suffered a gunshot wound and took out the bullet," said the senior officer, adding the girl's family denied having personal enmity with anyone.
Disha's mother Dolly, brother Himanshu, sister Rism and grandmother Rani Devi were also in the car, and they too have narrated a similar story.
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On the modern battlefield, information, particularly accurate and timely information, is vital to any force commander. To supply this resource, the RAF operates a variety of aircraft equipped with world-leading reconnaissance systems. As a maritime nation, protection of the sea lanes is also of paramount importance.
If you would like to see the full Royal Air Force Strategy please download the following pdf document.


text: The "Hillbilly Hollow Mud Races" were held in Marlinton, WV the same weekend of their local festival "Pioneer Days." The pit didn't look too exciting at first, but once the mud at the bottom of it got churned up the action heated up. The days racing was fast and fun and we hope you enjoy the five videos from this West Virginia Mud Racing Association race.


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TWISTED SISTER guitarist J.J. French has been added to the list of artists who are scheduled to make guest appearances at the Chiller Theatre toy, model and film expo on October 24-26 at the Hilton Hotel in Parsippany, New Jersey. French will appear on Friday and Saturday (Oct. 24-25) only.The following musicians are slated to appear, among others: Ace Frehley (KISS)
David Ellefson (MEGADETH, F5)
Eerie Von (DANZIG, SAMHAIN)
J.J. French (TWISTED SISTER)
John "J.D." DeServio (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, CYCLE OF PAIN)
Kip Winger (WINGER)
Lita Ford
Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (GUNS N' ROSES)
Wednesday 13 (MURDERDOLLS) For more information, go to this location. TWISTED SISTER is planning a 25th-anniversary re-release of its classic 1984 album "Stay Hungry" featuring loads of bonus material, including one brand new track that the band is set to record later this month. "There's gonna be two discs — it's gonna be the original album remastered, and it's gonna have all the outtakes, including about 15 songs that we never finished; all two verses and a chorus," guitarist Jay Jay French revealed during an October 10, 2008 appearance on Eddie Trunk's "Friday Night Rocks" radio show on New York's Q104.3 FM. "In much the same way that everybody's throwing the kitchen sink in these historical records — we're gonna have that — plus we're gonna have a brand new song that we're recording in two weeks." Back in 2004, TWISTED SISTER released "Still Hungry" — a re-recorded and expanded version of "Stay Hungry". "Still Hungry" — which was produced by Mark Mendoza, a longtime producer/engineer in addition to his bass guitar duties with TWISTED SISTER — gave the New York-based band a chance to make "Stay Hungry" the way it was first envisioned. "Stay Hungry" sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, but it didn't sound the way TWISTED SISTER wanted it to sound. Italian news blog Musica Metal uploaded video footage (see below) of TWISTED SISTER performing the song "The Price" (which originally appeared on the "Stay Hungry" album) at the first edition of the Rock Of Ages festival, which was held on September 13, 2008 in Milan, Italy.


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That boy Jrue, he nice. As nice as fellow point guard sensations Damian Lillard of Portland and John Wall of Washington, and as nice as Harlem-bred rapper A$AP Rocky, all of whom show up for this bizarre-but-kinda-cool Adidas commercial featuring the three young NBA stars playing basketball inside a gigantic shoe, their tale narrated by the aforementioned Rocky.
It doesn't make much more sense than it sounds like from that above description--the way Rocky tells the story, the three comprised a "family of Quicks on my block," living inside a giant shoe (which looks kind of like the foot statue from the terrible last season of LOST), balling free of further context. But it's cool to see the three young'ns, including our own All-Star, flashing crossover moves and dunks and the like to the strains of A$AP's "Goldie," as the rapper narrates with his typical effortless charisma.
Quick Ain't Fair, apparently. Little too close to Fast Don't Lie for my tastes, but a good idea is a good idea forever, I suppose.


text: Hi, At Resolver Systems, we have a product that is written in IronPython - the .NET Python implementation - and allows users to use that language to script a spreadsheet-like interface. Because they're using IronPython, they can access their existing .NET objects and libraries, which has worked out really well for us and for them. But there's an increasing number of users who would like access to CPython C extensions - in particular, NumPy. We *don't* want to just hack something together that would just allow users of our own product to access NumPy; what we'd really like to do is work on an OSS solution that will allow all IronPython users to access NumPy transparently, just as if they were using CPython. My question is, is this something that the readers of this list would like to get involved in, either in terms of contibuting, or even in terms on advice? We're under no illusions; this is a significant undertaking. And we're very keen on hearing from those who know NumPy better about how this should be structured, even if people don't have the time to write code for it. In particular: * How do people feel about a source-code-compatible solution, where (perhaps) we would maintain a project that basically provided an alternative makefile for NumPy - or, even better, we could work with the NumPy developers to contribute a .NET/IronPython package. * Would it be better to try for some kind of "binary compatibility", where we'd write some kind of "glue" that sat between the existing C extension .pyd files and the IronPython engine? Our gut feeling is that this would be much more work, but we might be missing something. * What should the work's relationship to the NumPy project be? Any thoughts, comments, or advice would be very much appreciated. Regards, Giles -- Giles Thomas MD & CTO, Resolver Systems Ltd. email@example.com +44 (0) 20 7253 6372 We're hiring! http://www.resolversystems.com/jobs/ 17a Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5RD, UK VAT No.: GB 893 5643 79 Registered in England and Wales as company number 5467329. Registered address: 843 Finchley Road, London NW11 8NA, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://projects.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/attachments/20071015/04297f6c/attachment.html


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The Pima Animal Care Center on Silverbell Road hit a major milestone last week by reaching 12,000 animal "saves" for this fiscal year, which ends June 30.
Shelter officials reached their goal when Tucson newlyweds Robert and Rachel Jentoft adopted Samurai — Sam for short — a 2-year-old Siberian Husky.
Sam's owners had just relinquished him after foreclosing on their home.
An animal "save" means adoption, rescue or released back to the pet's owner. Last year the county had 11,364 saves.
The Jentofts, both 26, received a round of applause and a gift basket filled with treats and toys before they left as a happy trio with Sam. The couple was already talking about buying a kiddie pool for the back yard.
Pima Animal Care Center Manager Kim Janes said he was thrilled to reach the goal, but wished every single adoption could have been celebrated to the same degree.
"The first adoption of the year, and every one after that, was no less significant. We appreciate every single person and every single rescue partner who has helped us save a life this year," Janes said.
"And while we're grateful to have reached our goal, I don't see why we should stop there! We have plenty more animals like Sam that are looking for loving families."
Adoption fees for the rest of June are $12 for dogs. Cats over the age of four months are free.
One other piece of good news from the local shelter, which certainly sees its share of sadness: Della the cattle dog, who I wrote about earlier this month, was adopted June 19. Another success story!


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olice report finds no Scientology role in suicide
Heave-ho for a hurt bear
A veterinarian was set to operate on the broken foreleg of a young Florida black bear, but wildlife officilas say returning it to the wild is for its own good. | Video: See efforts to help Turnpike the bear
Police report finds no Scientology role in suicide
Police investigated the role Scientology played in the suicide of a troubled young man two years ago, but did not conclude church members forced him off his antidepressant medication or contributed to his death. | Backstory: Mom sues Church of Scientology in son's death | Special report: The Church of Scientology (2007)
Museum's art to stay
Largo's Gulf Coast Museum of Art is gone, but its collection will remain in Pinellas County, intact. St. Petersburg College president Carl Kuttler will announce today that an agreement has been reached to transfer ownership of all 425 works, valued at $750,000, to the college. | Backstory: Gulf Coast Museum to close


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Monday, February 23, 2009
Purchase - Guerlain Ombre Eclat Mono Eyeshadow. A Taupe Tragedy
Ombre Eclat Mono Eyeshadow in L'Instant Fume #180 is my newest addition to my Taupe eye shadow obsession. The case is in the same fashion of the lipstick cases designed by French jewelry and furniture designer Hervé Van der Straeten. Aside from the decadent case, I must say that I am incredibly disappointed. It's a lovely color taupe, don't get me wrong, but the color payoff is awful. I had to heavily swatch the color on my arm for it to even show up then I decided to use my new ArtDeco Eye shadow Primer (Thanks ALICE!!) to even get it to show up on my arm.
How does it wear?
Meh. It wears very well with my eye shadow base, but if you don't use a base, don't expect it to last at all. Although how would you know? You could hardly see it.
How is the texture?
The texture is hard but silky. It shows very little wear even after digging into it with the enclosed foam applicator and my brushes. It's almost or more than double the size of most eye shadow singles I would have never have purchased this eye shadow if the tester I used wasn't so pigmented and silky. I don't know if it felt and looked that way with repeated use or what. I have heard that not all of Guerlain's Mono Eye shadows are this light and un-pigmented. When I tested the Fume I also tested a black shadow with golden sheen called L'Instant Nuit #182 which was lovely seemed pigmented too.
How's the value?
Guerlain's Ombre Eclat Mono Eyeshadow weighs in at a hefty 0.12 oz versus Laura Mercier's 0.09, Chanel's 0.07oz , MAC's 0.05 oz or BECCA's paltry 0.03 oz. Sure. That's great and all but what does it matter if you can't get it to show up? At $34 a single it's not worth it to try and collect more.
My favorite brand has disappointed me. I'm crushed.
FYI. I swatched Chanel Safari ($28.50) and Laura Mercier Topaz ($22.00) so you can see how similar they are to the Guerlain.
(Left to right: Chanel Safari, Guerlain Fume, Laura Mercier Topaz)
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Labels: Eye Shadow, Guerlain, Purchase, taupe
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Here are the cupcakes I made for his daycare class.
Here is the cake I made. It's a lady Baltimore cake with chocolate filling. Click on the image to see the full size.
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Triple Award thingie
My blog was given the "Triple Award" from lovely ladies Pixie (awesome nail polish blog) and T (Fab Budget Beauty Finds blog)! I'm not entirely sure what a Triple Award is, but I am very flattered to be nominated and I have a feeling that this is going to turn into one of those 25 things phenomena that happened on Face Book. But either way if it brings more eyes to my blog and my friends blogs then more power to it.
Here are the rules for the recipients:
1. Put the logo on your blog or post.
2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show great Attitude and/or Gratitude!
3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.
4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received your award.
So here is my list of 10 in alphabetic order.
Autumn Masquerade
Fab reviews of high end cosmetics, skin care and sought after Japanese brands. Her reviews are so amazingly detailed and informative. she has saved me and cost me a lot of money. Plus her pictures are drool worthy!
Birkin Bag Beauty
Any blog that post pictures of cupcakes is WONDERFUL in my book. Oh and her reviews of Asian and American and European makeup are insightful and helpful. I also love that fact that she has fun posts about items like Mystery Boxes from GMarket and cute fashion and unique items!
Here is your honest and upfront reviewer of Mineral makeup, MARK and Avon and a bunch of other brands I would never even wear (I'm a total snob) but Aly does and she's great at giving you super detail and honest feedback. Plus I just like her writing style and the fact that she has helpful promo codes for MAC and other makeup brands. I can't help but love the fact that he's some a part of CA that is full of fake looking women and she's real and real beautiful!
Happy Face Happy Wallet
She nominated me, and I am propagating this Internet pyramid scheme but hey, I love her reviews of budget conscious beauty items and her rating system. She even creates lemmings in a High End makeup snob like me. *hides Maybelline Dream Liquid Mousse foundation I've been using since I read her review*
Make Me Blushhh
Just about the cutest girl I've seen and I love her honest and helpful reviews. I also love her obsession with hair stuffs and wish my mane was as pretty as hers!
My Makeup Reviews
Jojoba has the most detailed and almost technical reviews of the prettiest makeup. I love her blog because I can be sure to find a lot of detailed pictures and honest feedback about the color, texture and quality of a lot of European Brands. It's doesn't hurt that she is very pretty and provides a gorgeous Face Of The Day with almost every post!
The Pink Train Case
Hello! How could I not nominate another Taupe eyeshadow lover? Plus she has a fun and lively approach to beauty. Aside from the fact that she inspires many lemmings, she likes baking and taupe eyeshadow she has to be my sister from a different mother!
Polish Pixie
One of my Favorite Nail Blogs. She showcases high end and low end polishes and her nails are impeccable! I wish my cuticles looked as nice as hers! I'm always envious of anyone that has time and energy to change their polish color more then once a week. LOL
Stella Magazine
A Fashion and beauty blog. Sure there are a lot of them but how many are written by High School Seniors? And how many of them are written with a mature voice and cover something other than Uggs and denim micro minis from A&F? This one blog is so impressive because it really does take a lovey objective view at fashion and beauty from a younger eye but not an immature one. Please pay Megan and Maude them a visit. It will be well worth your time!
What Lachesiss thinks
From Gorgeous color eye of the days to fab hauls this blog will make you inspired to try out new colors and you will be refreshed bu the honest and candid reviews. Plus she's a sweetheart!
Dang. that was way more work than I expected. I'm not bummed about it because these all deserve the lemonade, sisterhood, best friends award or whatever this silly thing is.
Happy President's Day for what it's worth!
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Purchase - Shu Uemura Glow On Blush in Steam. An opportunity missed once is given a 2nd chance
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Shu Uemura's past Fall collection had some pretty blushes in it…I picked up pulse, but I passed on the highlighter, Steam, at the time it was released. I knew I was going to regret it. By the time the Shu Uemura Friends and Family sale came along those darn blushes were gone and I was S.O.L. (Sh*t Outta Luck).
A Sales Associate at Barney's in Chicago applied it on top of the Pulse blush from the same collection and my face just lit up. I wanted to purchase it but I decided against it that day. I don't know what my problem was. I think I had this thing called "A moment of clarity" in which I realized that I have 3,216,546,546 highlighters back home and I probably didn't need another one.
Stupid rational thought!
Well I pined away for that light peachy-white highlighter that gave me a wonderful glow for many, many months. Finally in December, a full 5 months later, I decided I would buy it from Sasa.com before the end of the year (a date I had put on halting frivolous makeup purchases – another rational thought. Drat!) It finally arrived from Sasa.com and I'm thrilled!
See I knew I needed this? Only highlighter can bring me such joy…well maybe blush and taupe eye shadow can as well, but you get my point! My POINT is that I NEEDED this little 0.17oz of peachy-white-gold powdery goodness.
Shu Uemura's glow on blushes are not highly pigmented but that's not a bad thing. They provide subtle color to your cheeks. In a day where I see more of the 1980's wretched makeup showing up on the runways and in women's magazines (Yeah I'm looking at you Cosmo) I have come to appreciate the more toned down cheek. Also, I like to do a dramatic smokey eye and too much blush can make me look whorish and like a woman that puts her makeup on in the dark.
As simple swipe of my Body & Soul #2 blush brush across the surface of the blush and applied to my cheek bones and temples and I have a glow like you get when in candlelight. I adore it! As with most Shu Uemura makeup products the blush has no scent. Yea! Oh and I know you are asking yourself. "Does this look like a disco ball with that gold imprint on one side? The answer is, No. It's overspray and basically disappears after your first use. But there is subtle shimmer, SUBTLE I tell ya, built into the blush.
Now the Shu Uemura website does not have it for sale, but like I said, you can find it on Sasa.com or on evilbay…the person selling it on evilbay is asking a decent price for it. Not my auction, but I just wanted to give you some options if you wanted to look for it.
My favorite thing about Shu Uemura makeup is that it can be put into Shu Uemura Palettes! I have depotted this blush and put it into another palette with another Shu Uemura blush.
So have you ever regretted not buying a limited edition item only to find it later? Did it live up to your hopes or was it all built up in your mind, and when you finally got it you weren't as excited?
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Thursday Poll
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Spring is in the air. Punxsutawney Phil don't know squat about predicting the weather. He's a fraud! It was almost 70 degrees here yesterday. I say we make Groundhog stew outta him, because he said 6 more weeks of winter and winter does not equal 70 degree weather. Damn it! I'm actually mad because I haven't shed my winter weight that I like to hide under sweaters and such. Oh did I mention I had to pack on my winter weight on top of my baby weight and my previous winter weight? Yeah. It kinda sucks. I need about 3 winters to work off all the pounds. Thankfully taupe eye shadow still fits me.
On to the poll
1) Lip of the day? – Chantecaille lip chic in Tea Rose! OMG I love this so much. I took pictures and will post them soon. I promise
2) Beauty item you just finished and beauty item you just got? – I just finished my pressed meteorites. I adore them. Thank goodness I was able to fin a refill on evilbay for $22. I just got a Club Monaco eye shadow in Quartz. It's taupe and it's frickin fabulous. Thanks to my friend Tessa from MUA. She sent the sweetest RAOK (Random act of kindness) package.
3) Valentine's day? Yay or Nay? Nay-ish. I'm married and I still think it's a silly holiday. You should tell someone you love them every day. Not just wait until one day that the Hallmark Company decided was the day to do it. Now mind you, I won't argue if you give me chocolates.
4) Do you have any pets? – Yes. I have 2 dogs (English Bulldogs) and one cat. My cat is 17 years old and his name is Trauma. Yup. Trauma. He complains about everything and everything is a big drama for him. He's infatuated with my husband and thinks Darthypie is a nuisance but he tolerates him. He secretly loves the dogs and sleeps with them when he thinks no one is watching.
5) MAC Hello Kitty. Did you get some? – Yes. I picked up a little something for my Friend Pam for her Birthday. So if you are reading this Pam, don't buy anything…like you were really going to anyway. As for the makeup from the collection, the colors are so not for me. I'm actually a bit disappointed. I still kind of wished they had done the traditional red & white color scheme, but whatever. MAC has really gotten boring. All those silly collections, it's too hard to keep up. But I hear that a new mineralized blush duo collection is due out next month called Grand Duos. Those look VERY interesting. Just when I thought I was out, the pull me back in!
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Free Sample - Laura Mercier Lip Stain. Finally a lip stain that does not dry you out!
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Laura Mercier Lip Stain isn't really a traditional lip stain. It's more like a highly pigmented lipstick that has been melted into a glass jar. Don't get me wrong. I like the color and consistency very much, but when I think of a lip stain I think of something a bit more transparent and a bit more liquidy. Fortunately this lip stain from Laura Mercier has just as good staying power as other lip stains!
I received this as a "gift" from Sephora when I cashed in 100 beauty insider points. I can't tell you what a scam that thing is. Sephora's Beauty Insider program is kind of useless to me, only because I have tried so many things so a lot of the deluxe samples they offer don't appeal to me. Sure they have good samples every now and then, but lately there have been craptacular "rewards" for spending your hard earned money. Since I hadn't used my points in a while, because I found the "gifts" too useless, I had enough points when Laura Mercier Lip Stain in Mulberry came around in the BI prize box. I had a code for free shipping so I simply purchased a lip liner (I'm sorta addicted to them) and used my BI points to get this lip stain.
I must say that despite its lack of lipstainlike appearance I rather like it. The color I got was Mulberry. It is described as a "deep berry red" but I think it is more like a red that has some warm brown tones to it. It's perfect for me because it doesn't turn fuchsia on my lips after a meal. The lip stain line from Laura Mercier comes in 6 colors total:
Mocha - rich milk chocolate
Mulberry - deep berry red
Peach Glaze - light nude peach
Scarlet - bright cherry red
Shy Pink - light natural pink
Sugar Violet - deep rosy mauve
The lip stain is creamy and does not dry out my lips like the Giorgio Armani Lip Wax did…the only downfall is that it's in a pot. It's "stain-y" enough for you to NOT use your finger to apply…and why would you, because that's not sanitary…although I have been known to do this with potted glosses & balms from time to time…..but I digress. That's the downfall. It requires a lip brush to apply. But fortunately I like to apply all red lipsticks with a brush for a more even and more flattering appearance. The lip stain does not have a scent that I can detect…unlike Laura Mercier's lip gloss which smell heavily of Marshmallow (a scent I quite like but some people hate). It also has no taste to it either.
Sorry for the used appearance I didn't think I was going to do a review on this item. I have used it 4 times since I received it and as you can see, this small sample size jar is going to last me a long, long while. If you purchase the full size version you are getting a lot of use for your money. At 0.21 oz for $20 it's a great investment is you like the color or if you are one of those people that wears the same lip color every day….but somehow I think if you are reading this blog you are not one of those people! LoL. Also please note that this is a sample jar. The actual product is in a larger jar (same height but larger diameter).
This is how it looks on the lips. I used a lip liner to define the lips and then applied it with a lip brush. I did not blot.
This is how it looks after drinking hot tea and a few Digestives (McVitie's of course)
Not bad really.
So if you want a nice lip stain for a good price and a few different colors to choose from I say Laura Mercier is your best bet.
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Monday, February 9, 2009
Purchase - Kose Happy Bath Day Precious Rose Hand Essence. Non greasy Hand Care at last!
Kose Happy Bath Day, Precious Rose, Hand Essence is something I have been wanting since I read a review on GlowChaser's old blog. I have wanted the line since I read about it on Rouge Deluxe blog, which was about last July.
Anyway, the reason I wanted it was because all the products are rose scented. And not an overpowering sickly sweet rose and not some cloying, decomposing rose either. Actually the scent of the rose is very light and slight.
Here is a list of all the Kose Happy Bath Day Precious Rose from The Rouge Deluxe blog
Hair Pack
Curl Lotion
Hair Wax (Shiny)
Hair Wax (Nuance Arrange)
Hair Cologne
Hair Spray
Body Soap
Cleansing Sheet: Makeup-removing sheets
Fragrance Soap
Mist Cologne
Lip Balm
Essence Butter: body moisturizing cream
Milky Body Gel: body moisturizer
Body Powder
Bath Set: single use sachets of the body soap, shampoo, conditioner and milky body gel
So I went to the Kose website and since I don't read Japanese I must say it's rather difficult to navigate. I am quite amused by the 6 guys in white suits with Japanamae/Emo haircuts that are presenting the product to you on the main page,
but whatever. Here is a link to all the products in the line.
I purchased the Kose Happy Bath Day Hand Essence for $7 usd off of evilbay as it was the only place I found it…but I'm sure you can get it from other trusty websites, however the price I paid and the seller I used was perfect, so I'm not complaining.
Right now you all are thinking. "What about the effectiveness Pink? We know all about your bizzaro rose scented fetish!"
I'm glad you asked my dear readers!
Let's start from the very beginning. A very good place to start.
The container. A small deep pink oblong container that is no more than 3 and a half inches high (8.9 centimeters) and 2 inches wide (at its widest part) (5 centimeters). The cap twists off and the essence is dispensed through a tiny nozzle.
Only a little comes out with each squeeze which is good because you really only need a little bit to moisturize your hands. This little gem will fit in some of the smaller purses and almost fits in the palm of your hand. It's very travel friendly and holds 35ml (1.18 oz)
The essence itself is very light, like a white creamy gel.
Once the essence is applied to your hands it sinks right in. It does not leave a greasy feeling or sticky feeling either. It's like your hands have been infused with moisture. Now I must say that because it is very lightweight, I'm not sure how effective it will be for people with very dry hands. I have moderately normal skin and can survive without hand cream all the time. So maybe this might be a good thing to use in the summer for those that suffer for very dry skin in the winter. Either way, the essence is not a cream but it still moisturizes my skin just as well as my hand creams. I really enjoy it! Oh and I absolutely HATE that greasy, sticky feeling that I get when I use other hand creams. I can't touch anything and I feel all smeary after using it. Bleh! Don't get me started on the AVON silicone hand glove gel cream thingie...or whatever it's called. I felt like I had put Monistat anti chafing gel all over my hands. *barf*
So should you get this?
Well if you love the scent of roses – YES
If you like a lightweight hand cream that does not feel sticky – YES
If you are enamored with all things Japanese – YES
Will I be buying more things from the line? – Yes
I have already purchased the lip balm. Look at how cute the little rose shaped container is!
It's about 1.25 inches (3.5 centimeters) wide and .75 inches (2 centimeters) high
But do I love the lip balm. Welllllll, no. It's no Labello or Nivea but it's cute. This is the one time where I think the rose scent is too much. When I wear it, every breath is like inhaling rose perfume and that's not such a great feeling. It does not taste of roses, thank goodness! It does keep my lips moisturized but I won't be repurchasing it, it's a tad too greasy and the scent it too overpowering for lip balm. I'm thinking of using it for cuticle cream instead. How does that sound? Yucky?
Well, whatever. I'll have the nicest smelling cuticles on the East Coast!
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A Starbucks coffee shop to be built across from Buffalo Niagara International Airport was approved Tuesday by the Cheektowaga Town Board, which also scheduled public hearings for several other projects in the pipeline.
The 1,950-square-foot coffee shop, with a drive-thru service window, would be located on the eastern side of a freestanding 9,800-square-foot retail building to be built in front of 4243-4271 Genesee St. Three hotels have opened farther back on the site during the past five years.
Tuesday night, the Town Board unanimously approved a special-use permit and variance for the project; the site plan; and a declaration that it wouldn't have a significant impact on the environment. The special-use permit is required for drive-thru service windows, and the variance reduces the permitted number of vehicles waiting in line from 16 to 11.
In other business, the board scheduled public hearings for Sept. 15 on other proposals, including:
• 2013 Walden Ave.: The proposed redevelopment of the former Fuddruckers restaurant building, next to the new Cabela's store. It includes a 2,301-square-foot building addition to accommodate two restaurant tenants, one of which would be Panera Bread. The project requires site plan approval and a special-use permit for a drive-thru window for Panera Bread. The second restaurant is yet to be identified.
• 2700 Union Road at William Street (northwest corner of intersection): The proposed redevelopment of an existing gas station/convenience store, to a new gas station with a convenience store and donut shop, along with a self-operated car wash. Plans call for the demolition of the existing 2,880-square-foot building and construction of a 5,256-square-foot building, along with a 720-square-foot building for the car wash. The site must be rezoned from general commercial to motor service, and requires a special-use permit for a drive-thru service window for the donut shop.
• 93 Maryvale Drive: A cellular provider, T-Mobile, wants to add an antenna to an existing 139-foot monopole cell tower at Harlem Road and Maryvale Drive. T-Mobile's antenna array would be mounted at a height of 126 feet, just below an existing AT&T antenna grouping. The project requires a special-use permit.
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Last season the Raiders interior line really looked like they had come into their own. But just like that, the Raiders are shifting out of the zone blocking scheme and back to a power blocking scheme. This means that there could be some big changes in this group.
Ever since the Raiders incorporated the zone blocking scheme, the emphasis has been on more athletic interior lineman. Stunts and downfield blocking require linemen who can get out of their stance quickly and push through defenders, maintaining a block deep into the defensive backfield. This scheme helped the Raiders have the second best rushing attack in the league last season.
Now the focus will be placed more on protecting the quarterback and dominating defenders straight up without stunts or trickery. It is a style that the Raiders of old executed with legendary ability but something the Raiders of late have struggled with, though there are a lot of positives about the play of this group that can be built upon.
LG Robert Gallery
He is the stalwart of this Raiders line. While he has out for several games each of the last two seasons due to injury, his absence usually acts as a reminder of how valuable he is to this team. While he never became the great left tackle the Raiders hoped when drafting him second overall in 2004, he has become a Pro Bowl caliber left guard. He is by far the best offensive lineman on this team. Gallery makes those around him better by recognizing the defense, always having his man, and often times assisting his line mates with their assignments. He is the one lineman of the group who is most likely to make the switch out of the zone blocking scheme seamlessly. Gallery is as big and powerful as he is athletic and the transition would not be an issue. The bad news is his contract is up, which would make him an unrestricted free agent and there is nothing to indicate the team is even close to re-signing him. I was of the mind that they would place the franchise tag on him. They may have intended to do so until they found out Kamerion Wimbley's contract voided his final season. So to ensure their best new player didn't get signed away after one season, they were forced to place the franchise tag on Wimbley instead. Some fear Gallery will follow former head coach Tom Cable to Seattle. If that happens, the Raiders could be in trouble.
C Samson Satele
Satele was my "Under the Radar Contributor" for last season. He quietly had a really nice year. There was no evidence of him getting handled by larger nose tackles which has long been his biggest criticism. He unveiled some new technique this year from what I could tell. It was a relentless aggressive style that kept defenders on their heels and off balance from the moment he snapped the ball. Unfortunately for Satele, he is the most likely casualty in the switch to the power blocking scheme. He was acquired because he is an ideal zone blocking lineman. His somewhat smaller, athletic frame gives him the edge in the zbs. He too is a free agent and unless he is willing to sign for something close to veteran minimum with the likelihood of being a backup, he will be allowed to leave as a free agent. It would benefit the Raiders greatly for him to stay because he would be an asset as a backup and mentor should the Raiders draft his replacement. But I would understand if he chooses to move on.
RG Cooper Carlisle
Carlisle has played in the zone blocking scheme nearly his entire career in the NFL. He was brought in from Denver a few years ago because of his experience in the scheme. Now he will be asked to transition out of that style after having played in it for so long. I really don't know how that will work itself out. He is the lone starting interior lineman who is under contract so he will be given the chance to show he can still perform at high level.
Brandon Loper really opened some eyes in last year's training camp and preseason with his fine guard play. He came in for Gallery at left guard early in the season and played decent then too. Loper played well enough to be the only reserve guard on the team through most of the season. The team was clearly not as good without Gallery there, but the coaches had enough confidence in Loper to say that if either Gallery or Carlisle went down with an injury, Loper was their guy. He was a pleasant surprise coming in as an otherwise unwanted free agent. If the team does lose Gallery, Loper is a serviceable replacement.
Bruce Campbell was last year's workout warrior and combine freak. Unfortunately, his technique, talent, and football intelligence have fallen behind. He didn't play a single snap in 2010 and was inactive for the last part of the season. Some believe his strengths are more suited for the power blocking scheme. That makes some sense based on the mere fact that power blocking is much simpler. But outside of that, I don't see why it would be easier for him. I will believe it when I see it. Luckily he was drafted in the fourth round so we shouldn't see Al Davis forcing Hue Jackson to put his investment on the field. Campbell will have to earn his shot.
Jared Veldheer was tried out at center in the preseason and started the first game of the season at that position. It was a shocking move that terribly backfired on Tom Cable. Veldheer was drafted as a left tackle and proved that is where he belongs. But the Raiders didn't go into the season with any other centers on the roster unless you count Jon Condo, the long snapper (who is also a linebacker and nowhere near big enough to play center). If Satele had become injured, Veldheer would have moved back to center and Veldheer would have been replaced at left tackle by former starter Mario Henderson. I do not expect this ever to be the case again. There is no chance the Raiders wouldn't bring in a center or at very least a guard who can play center if called upon.
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With two free agent starters, a switch in systems, and no depth at center, the interior line could require some serious attention this offseason. And with the big checks being handed out lately to re-sign potential free agents, it is looking less and less likely they will be able to afford to bring in a quality free agent. That could mean the Raiders will finally look to the draft to improve the guard and/or center position. A round four or later selection, as Bruce Campbell was last year, is not going to cut it. He must be either a round two or round three selection.
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RealNetworks has agreed to buy Listen.com for about $36 million in cash and stock, a deal that could alter some key alliances in the online music business.
The two companies announced an agreement Monday, under which RealNetworks will pay $17.3 million in cash and 4.1 million shares of stock for privately held Listen. Real had already taken a minority stake in the San Francisco-based company in February. The companies said that bringing Listen's online music subscription service, dubbed Rhapsody, closer to RealNetworks' RealOne product will help both services in the market--despite the fact that Rhapsody technically competes with a rival that is partly owned by RealNetworks.
"We see this as doubling down on our business," RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser said in a conference call with reporters. Listen has spent more than $100 million over the years, creating a service that Real would be hard-pressed to recreate on its own, he added. The Listen.com acquisition is perhaps most notable for the shadow that it casts on RealNetworks' ongoing relationship with MusicNet, the rival subscription service it helped create in 2001, and in which it is still a near-40 percent owner. Real is a joint owner of MusicNet with Bertelsmann, AOL Time Warner and EMI Group.
MusicNet recently launched a new version of its year-old subscription service, along with America Online, offering what reviewers said was a flawed but vast improvement over its previous incarnation. RealNetworks continues to offer the older version, however, and stopped short of saying it would upgrade to the new MusicNet technology.
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