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The Utility of 3D6 Jul, 2011 By: Cyrena Respini-Irwin
User Profile: As a multi-discipline designer of water treatment plants, Bob Beatty bridges the gap between 2D and 3D every day.
Bob Beatty, a senior CAD designer and CAD manager at American Water Engineering in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, is a man who sees the world in 3D and 2D. To work efficiently on both new and legacy plant designs, Beatty has embraced what he calls "the future of CAD" — without forgetting his roots.
Cadalyst: How did you become involved with CAD?
Beatty: My first job was with Stone & Webster in 1977, where I worked on the design for a nuclear power plant, which was completely done on the drawing board. I learned my first CAD program after I moved to a fire-protection design firm. They had developed their own CAD system, which I helped beta-test. From there, I went back to S&W and was taught three other systems: AutoCAD, MicroStation, and a mainframe system.
I joined American Water in 1996 and have been using AutoCAD and [AutoCAD MEP (mechanical/electrical/plumbing)] ever since. In designing water treatment plants, I use MEP 2012 to its fullest 3D capabilities; I have been told many times by my AutoCAD vendor that I "model to the extreme."
Bob Beatty uses AutoCAD MEP in his work as a senior CAD designer and CAD manager at American Water Engineering.
What motivated your leap to 3D CAD?
When I started to work for American Water, we were a 2D engineering department. We design all aspects of water treatment plants: architectural, structural, process piping, mechanical, electrical. We began to receive literature on [Autodesk] Architectural Desktop, and it just fascinated me. As I collected information on this software, I realized that this is the future of CAD, and I did not want to be left behind. I was getting bored with 2D drawings and saw the 3D world as both a challenge and a way to save time and money on projects. We have been using 3D CAD ever since my company purchased the second edition of the Architectural Desktop software.
Beatty created this 3D CAD model of major process equipment components within a water treatment facility.
The main reason we use a hybrid 2D/3D system is the scope of the work. For designing new plants, we use full 3D. For existing plants that we modify, we usually stick to 2D linework, because implementing 3D on an existing set of 2D CAD files is not very efficient. However, we always look at the project first to determine if there is real value in using the 3D capabilities.
How did you go about teaching yourself to use the software?
When I first started to learn CAD in the late '80s, there was an engineering job shortage. Most employers were trying out new employees on a temporary basis before hiring full-time; you really had to be at the top of your game to stay employed. I had to either learn CAD as quickly as possible or head to the unemployment office. I had a couple of days of one-on-one training, and then it was "go to it" — but go as fast as you can! I would dive into the training manuals and learn as much as I could, as fast as I could. When I needed to perform a certain task, I would research that task and complete it over and over until it was a piece of cake to accomplish.
What have been your greatest obstacles?
The greatest challenge we faced when we transitioned to 3D CAD was building a business case to convince upper management that this was the way to go. We had to show that 3D CAD was not just a glorified CAD system, but that there was great potential to further the design and realize tremendous cost savings by the end of the project — not an easy task, but one that was eventually completed.
The scary part was the software itself. I remember loading the program, looking at all of the tools, and thinking, "I will never learn this software." Plus, the transition to a 3D world was confusing at first. It took some time to learn how to navigate once the model was built. I think CAD users get very comfortable once they learn a particular program and are reluctant to change, just like any other person.
What benefits have you found when working in 3D?
During the design phase, a whole new world has opened up in respect to evaluating the design, both for the engineer and the client. I remember holding a presentation for all of my design engineers following completion of our first 3D plant. I put the model up on the screen, went to one of the 3D views, and turned on the Realistic view — the defining comment was "Wow!"
This software has helped the engineers in ways that they just did not envision. I can now sit down with any of my design engineers, bring up the model, and check all of the process piping to make sure the design is correct. Before that, the engineer would have to go through plans, sections, and elevations to make sure everything was correct and located where it should be.
This isometric rendering depicts a water treatment facility that processes 2 million gallons per day.
It has also helped us out with our clients. I can now export the model to Autodesk Design Review so that the client can open the file at his or her desk and see exactly what they will be getting. This has especially helped non-engineers who are not accustomed to looking at engineering drawings. As the saying goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words."
At first, the transition to 3D decreased the time needed to create my projects by 50%. Over the last couple of years, those savings have lessened somewhat. As the capabilities of the software have grown, the need for more information has grown as well. Overall, there are still tremendous savings, especially when you need to cut building cross sections. Who can claim they can cut a full section in 30 seconds? With 3D CAD, it takes just a click of the mouse.
In your industry, is it still a 2D world for most?
American Water has operations in more than 30 states, and I work for the corporate engineering office. Most of our engineers and technicians use AutoCAD Map 3D, because of the linear nature of much of our buried infrastructure work. My group is the only one currently using AutoCAD MEP, because of the vertical nature of the treatment plant design work we handle.
I have noticed over the last couple of years that larger engineering firms that work with us have transitioned to some type of 3D CAD software, usually Autodesk Revit or MEP. The smaller firms have yet to transition to a 3D world.
What advice do you have for those who've not yet moved to 3D?
Take your time. Get the proper professional training and embrace the technology. It is completely different from drawing 2D stick lines, but the benefits are worth the time needed to transition to 3D.
I think the biggest reason for firms holding off is the cost associated with the software, training, and new hardware required to accommodate any 3D program — especially in this economy.
Tell us about your life outside work.
I was a volunteer firefighter for 25 years, holding the positions of deputy chief and chairman of the board of fire commissioners for Deptford Township, New Jersey. I have been riding motorcycles since I was 18, and am on my fifth bike, the last two being Harleys. I also scuba dive when I get a chance.
I am married to my lovely wife, Donna, and have a 16-month-old Labrador retriever who tests my patience daily. I keep an open-door policy with my fellow CAD operators — whenever they have problems or questions, I am always willing to help.
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3D is more and more popular now.

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Two degree FOV on January 13th… north is up.
(Created by the Author in Starry Night).
The planet Venus is going through some pretty fancy sky maneuvering this year. Starting off low to the south in dusk skies, it is about to shoot dramatically to high northerly declinations later this spring, and then dip down to a climatic transit of the Sun on June 5th-6th this summer. [Read more...]


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BrickFest DC is a mere few days away and things are begining to come together for the largest 3CS Display, by far, ever! If you are bringing something for the 3CS Display, the Castle Coordinating Team has a few new ideas for you to participate in!
The primary new idea is that each house will be identified with its builder by flags. Marc Nelson, Jr has spearheaded this idea, and has volunteered to make the chart defining who's house belongs to whom. Reserve your favorite flag combo today!
This is also the first year for the My Own Castle Competition (MOCC). The idea of the MOCC is for attendees to make their own TLG style castle (think like the BFF, Black Monarch's Castle or 6080 King's Castle) to sit on a 48x48 base.
Lastly, with several Classic-Castle admins making an appearance (Lenny, Ben, Troy, and Kevin) - expect to see periodic updates and As-It-Is-Happening reports keeping you up to date on everything of importance that happens at fest.
BrickFest 2004 is shaping to be the best fest ever!!
Can't wait to see all you guys there!!
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It has taken him the best part of 2 years, but finally Steve, my buddy with whom I cycled the WW1 Western Front back in 2009 has uploaded some video snippets from our trip onto YouTube.
They are small, taken with an iPhone, completely random and contain some tasty language, but they bring back some wonderful memories and watching them I do have the urge to do it all again…we have been throwing around the idea of cycling from Normandy to Aachen or maybe all the way to Berlin..so watch this space.
But back to the videos. There are 12 of them, they are not in any kind of date order (for example the first one you will see is Steve explaining our trying day to Verdun when my back wheel collapsed and we had to walk 10 miles to find a shop to fix my wheel) also, Steve got one or two of his historical dates/facts mixed up in his commentary – he doesn't pretend to be a history buff, but he did however cycle the best part of 600 miles to raise a bucket load of cash for our old soldiers, so don't give him a hard time about it!
Also, there is fair amount of…erm…naughty language, so if you are easily offended please do not watch!! (You have been warned!)
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From NBC's Doug Adams
Calling Social Security "broken," three Republican senators unveiled a plan Wednesday to overhaul the 75-year old entitlement program by raising the retirement age and reducing benefits for some wealthier Americans.
Two freshmen -- Tea Party Republicans Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky -- joined Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, who has been working on this issue for more than five years.
A key part of their proposal would be to gradually raise the mandatory retirement age to 70 years old by 2032.
"If you talk to young people in America - they've already accepted this," Paul said. "I tell people 'the knowledge has already been discounted. Young people know the age will have to go up gradually.'"
The senators also proposed "means testing" for Social Security benefits, meaning the reduction of benefits for wealthier Americans.
Under their plan, seniors making over $43,000 a year would have their monthly benefits reduced by $300 to $400 by 2032.
This year is the first year in which Social Security pays out more than it takes in, because people are living longer, and the huge wave of Baby Boomers is starting to hit retirement age.
Neither Rep. Paul Ryan's FY2012 budget nor the deficit plans outlined by President Barack Obama to date address specifics for addressing Social Security's long-term solvency.
Graham noted the political hazards of discussing changes to benefits for America's retirees, saying that Paul and Lee are the only co-signatories on his proposal.
"These are the only 2 guys I could find," he said.
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Microsoft seems to be constantly tweaking and fine tuning the Windows Phone Store experience. The latest upgrades will be seen with Windows Phone 8 store and covers a few design changes, a little under the hood tweaks and a hand full of new features. All designed to help consumers with app and game selection and to help developers get thier works seen.
If you are curious if an app or game has Live Tile support, the Details Page of the application will make note if the app has a Live Tile. This may not be a major improvement but how many out there have been curious is an app or game they are shopping for has Live Tile support and it's not noted in the description?
The under the hood upgrade deals with the algorithms that are used to generate app lists. This will not only help consumers find quality apps and games but also developers by improving exposure for quality, stable apps. According to the Windows Phone team,
"Previously the list algorithms were based primarily on downloads over time. Now we're able to factor in measures including an app's customer rating, how frequently it's pinned or unpinned from Start, and performance (does it crash often?) to determine its overall ranking."
This algorithm change will provide better ranking and discoverability of apps.
The Windows Phone Store upgrades includes a few new features to help you find apps and help you decide what apps and games are appropriate for your kids.
Collection is a new feature that should appeal to the consumer interested in specific kinds of apps. Each Store will have thirty collection that will include six to twenty apps tailored to each collection. Currently there are 450 Collections spread out across 19 Windows Phone markets with more to come.
Picks for You is a new personalized recommendation engines that suggests apps and games based on what Windows Phone users already own and what their friends own.
You also have the My Family feature on the Windows Phone website that is designed to make it easier for parents to decide when their children can buy apps or games. My Family will also let you determine which game ratings they are allowed to play on their Windows Phone 8 devices. It reminds me a little of the Family Center over on our Xbox Live accounts.
When you find that app you've been looking for, you can buy your apps through the new Wallet feature and expanded payment options including PayPal and Bing Rewards. There may be limitations to these options based on your location.
And Microsoft isn't overlooking the Windows Phone 7.5 shopping experience. There will be a new algorithm put into place that takes into account downloads, customer ratings and actual usage patterns for a more accurate image of what is trending in lists such the Top, Free and New filters.
All in all these efforts are designed to get consumers to quality apps and games in a faster, more efficient manner. The changes will also help developers get their apps and games seen through the improve algorithms and more refined selections such as the Collections and Picks for You features.
Source: Windows Phone Developer Blog (1)(2)
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Updated 2:12 p.m.: Microsoft is adamant that off-message tweets did not pop up on the Saks displays.
Updated 12:55 p.m.: Since hopping on a plane to JFK is out of the question, I haven't been able to confirm or disconfirm reports that pro-Apple tweets are showing up in Saks windows. Microsoft says one thing, most of the Internet says another. Hopefully this'll be settled today.
Updated 12:25 p.m.: Microsoft responds, saying the screens have not been completely hijacked. A filter has blocked most negative tweets, Microsoft said.
Microsoft has partnered with Saks Fifth Avenue to put video displays, hooked up to computers, in the legendary department store's windows for the holiday season. Some of them display scenes from a children's book; some of them are hooked up to Twitter.
Those are rigged to show real-time tweets about Windows 7. By using the #holidaywindows hash-tag on Twitter, people's beaming tweets about Windows 7 will pop up in the Saks display.
It didn't take long for that plan to backfire. Apple fans reportedly have hijacked #holidaywindows and are writing tweets such as "Get a Mac" and "Windows is lame."
"Haha oh Microsoft looks like you fail again, happy holidays from another apple user," tweeted Oaksandnix.
But are they showing up in the Big Apple? Microsoft says no at least not most of them.
There's a filter in place for the Saks-display Twitter feeds, and Microsoft says most negative tweets are being filtered out automatically. Plus, the company says, there's a human backup.
"What you're seeing on the Internet is not what is showing up in the Saks windows," Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos said.
Microsoft sent seattlepi.com this statement on the matter:
This holiday, Saks Fifth Avenue and Windows 7 are working together to bring the magic of the season to life. For the first time, the legendary Saks Fifth Avenue's holiday windows are powered by Windows 7. As part of this campaign, there are three Microsoft Windows on 50th Ave that feature video monitors displaying a live feed of people's holiday wishes for the season shared via Twitter and from kiosks in store. The windows are the private property of Saks Fifth Avenue. As such, there are filters in place to make sure that in opening them up to Twitter feeds we had content that was appropriate for the general public to view and was within the holiday theme. This filter includes any attempt to spam the windows with negative commentary that is not in the spirit of the holidays. The windows have not been hijacked.
Microsoft is objecting to my use of the word "hijack" in this post. Fine. It's out of the question for me to fly to New York right now, take the subway to Fifth Avenue, and check how well the Saks screens are filtering out pro-Apple tweets.
But the Web is ablaze with reports that Microsoft's plan backfired, at least to some degree. Perhaps the company should have anticipated the attention good and bad that such social-media promotions generate.
Doesn't Microsoft remember the big Skittles scandal of March 2009? Mars, the candy company, transformed its Skittles home page into a live feed of social media buzz, including a Twitter feed for #Skittles. It took two days for the public to catch on and start inundating the Skittles home page with profanity.
You just can't control trolls.
On a related note, Microsoft also is sponsoring a PC lounge in the middle of Saks, where shoppers can go to play around with Windows 7 machines.
Here are some of the #holidaywindows tweets, as displayed on Twitter:


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One day, I shall make the news feed. Then they'll see. Then they'll all see! Mwahahahaha!!!!
Supposedly there's some primal mechanism in humans that says fat is only good in uncertain times, skinny becomes the big thing thanks to the incredible prosperity we used to have. There was a study done on Playboy models and the economy, that demonstrates a correlation (Jungeberg 2004). Should be interesting to see how things go when people realize that the economy isn't going to get better for a long time.
Ah I had to read this twice to get your point. With weight, you mean actual bodyweight, as in "the camera adds a few pounds". I interpreted it as "importance" or "authority" first and it got kind of confusing I always wondered, is this "the camera adds a few pounds" actually really true? I mean, I heard it, but I never really thought more of it than "one of those things that are said". But I don't know. Let me phrase this differently, these days we can see ourselves on video quite often, if we want to. Anyone have experience with looking fatter on camera than IRL? Cause I don't. I know, I'm skinny, but I'm neither more or less skinny when I see myself back on camera. It's even less weird than when I hear myself speak on tape. The only thing that surprises me is the sort of jangly, bouncy way I move around most of the time, but that's one of my features, apparently.
Y'all probably won't believe me, but for me a lot of a woman's beauty comes from their face. I won't lie: A well-proportioned rack and a tight, full ass will turn my head, but it's only a fleeting reaction if I don't like their face.For the most part, the surgical fixes for faces are pretty horrible at this point.
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Inbox, you know Bracken is now ranked the World's best ODI bowler.
This is for Tests btw.
Inbox, you know Bracken is now ranked the World's best ODI bowler.
This is for Tests btw.
My pecking order:
1) Lee
2) Clark
3) Bracken
4) Johnson
5) Bollinger
6) Noffke
7) Siddle
8) Tait
9) Hilfy
10) Geeves
Rate Bracken quite highly. Should easily be in the test squad if he's not in the test team. Can't see how someone with such a good ODI record cannot even be considered for the test matches.
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You know, having just checked back on the figures, Siddle has in fact been picked for the Test squad on the back of 6 First-Class games. Because that's all he played last season, and in the 3 previous games he was very poor.
6 games is funnily enough the exact same number of games Darren Pattinson had played in 2008 prior to his Test selection.
2002-03 - 13 wickets @ 59.07
2003-04 - 1 wicket @ 87.00
2004-05 - 2 wickets @ 102.00
2005-06 - 10 wickets @ 58.70
2006-07 - 37 wickets @ 28.37
2007-08 - 45 wickets @ 15.44
One good season and one excellent season, consecutively, from where I sit. I think you underestimate how hard it is to take 37 wickets @ 28 in Australian First Class cricket TBH - the standard of the batting and the state of the pitches certainly make that a "good season", albeit not an excellent one as such.
It's not the sort of thing that screams out "proven long-term First Class performer" or anything, as some people seem to think, but I don't think it's that different from what Noffke has done of late, really.
Ashley Noffke
1999-00 - 6 wickets @ 17.50
2000-01 - 15 wickets @ 35.15
2001-02 - 29 wickets @ 28.46
2002-03 - 41 wickets @ 22.65
2003-04 - 15 wickets @ 51.33
2004-05 - 23 wickets @ 37.91
2005-06 - 17 wickets @ 30.94
2006-07 - 30 wickets @ 24.30
2007-08 - 51 wickets @ 19.03
He's been good in the last two seasons - like Bollinger - but not exactly better than him. He barely played in 2005-06 as he was on the outer from horrible showings in the previous two seasons.. you have to go back to 2001-02 and 2002-03 before to find another patch where he's done well in consecutive seasons.
I can definitely see the statisitcal argument for why Noffke should be ahead of Bollinger in the pecking order, but I don't think it's a complete disgrace that he isn't. There's a lot of ability and promise amongst the Australian quicks but as I showed in the other thread when I posted these stats the first time, there hasn't really been anyone put their hand up and consisently do it for three seasons in a row. Even two has been a rarity and the suggestion that Noffke has been "banging the door down" is a bit exaggerated given the relatively small period he has been performing well consistently for. I agree that he should be ahead of Siddle and Hilfenhaus based on his domestic exploits but he doesn't demand selection as much as people seem to think, particularly as a specialist bowler.
I've heard a few times Ponting/selectors saying about Watson/Symonds that their batting averages are very good for someone whose home ground is the Gabba. Is there any thought that Noffke suffers in peoples estimation for the same reason?
Horses for horse really. One of Noffke major issues is probably the fact that he didn't perform that well in Pakistan and India for Australia A, comparatively to his domestic performances. Whereas both Siddle and Bollinger showed more promise in sub continent conditions.
I think you will find our the next season or so. The selectors will go for a lot of horses for courses selection for the last couple bowling spots. Until they find some they really think the real deal. Probably unto Tait step ups IMO.
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M'thinks Noffke's just not rated as highly by the Aussie camp as others are. Bowls largely straight up-and-down fast-meds and I believe there are questions about his ability under pressure and whether, in taking the step up to international level, whether he'd suddenly lose his radar. It's why he had to get his batting up to get noticed.
It's part of why Bichel got ignored for so long. The perception was that playing half his games at the Gabba made him look a better bowler than he really was and when he actually was picked for Australia, it's hard to argue against that as he rarely looked like he was about to absolutely run through a side (7-fer against England in 2003 excepted where, for a 5 over spell, he was simply awesome). Kasper suffered a similar perception but to a lesser extent, probably helped by his bowling on an early tour to India. Noffke, I'd be surprised if the Gabba argument didn't come up when his name is bandied about the selection table.
In his other 14 games Bichel averaged 39.58. This includes 3 games against England (the first 2 of which were the only ones out of his 19 Tests where he played as a first-choice) in which he took 10 wickets at 35.
I never really rated him much, despite his excellent success (at least, as far as taking wickets was concerned - he usually went for a few) in both Australian and English domestic cricket, and later on his not-inconsiderable batting skill.
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What PEWS said. That ODI match was the only time I ever saw Bichel look absolutely top shelf. His ball to get Vaughan was good enough but the ball to knock over Hussain was just unplayable.
Well Bichel was damn superb that whole tournament really, for mine - and in fact had been between that Super Challenge thingy against Pakistan in 2002 and the end of it, though the Cup was his last hurrah (went for 5.51-an-over at 49.61 in his 15 ODIs thereafter) and he'd never been much good until winter 2002 (4.69-an-over at 36.26 in 27 previous games). But I thought we were on about Tests.
But yeah, I don't think Bichel's ODI superlativeness was confined exclusively to that game, there were another 14 in 2002 and 2002/03. The England game was certainly the peak of that little period though - stunning spell.
Why is Bracken so low down the pecking order. Has he been pigeon holed as an ODI performer only?
Granted, I'm of the school that ODI performances shouldn't have too much impact on selection on other forms of the game, but the fact that he's performed so well in international cricket should be a factor in my opinion.
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The decades-long quest to end drought (and feed millions) by taking the salt out of seawater
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The decades-long quest to end drought (and feed millions) by taking the salt out of seawater
Wired, March 20, 2018
Posted: 2018-04-23 02:46:33
"The world isn't short of water, it's just in the wrong place, and too salty," says Charlie Paton – so he's spent the past 24 years building the technology to prove it. Paton is the founder of Seawater Greenhouse, a company that transforms two abundant resources – sunshine and seawater – into freshwater for growing crops in arid, coastal regions such as Africa's horn. His latest project [is] in Somaliland (an autonomous but internationally unrecognised republic in Somalia). On a 25-hectare plot of desert land close to the coastline, he's building the region's first sustainable, drought-resistant greenhouse. Using solar power to pump in seawater from the coastline and desalinate it on site, Paton is generating freshwater to irrigate plants, and water vapour to cool and humidify the greenhouse interior. Less than a year after its launch, this improbable desert oasis produced its first harvest of lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes. This year he plans to build an on-site training centre to teach local farmers how to grow greenhouse vegetables. The structure's modular design will enable farmers to adopt their own one- to five-hectare plots – the dream being a network of connected, drought-resistant farms running across the country. "One of the exciting things is that it can work all the way along our long Red Sea coastline, bringing new sources of income in arid, pastoral areas," Shibeshi says. "If you have a greenhouse, you aren't worried about whether there's rain or no rain."
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U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
2001-05-01, ABC News
In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's ... Fidel Castro. America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years. The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba. Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof … that the fault lies with the Communists." The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after.
Note: Why was ABC the only major news source to report on this highly revealing story? Read the shocking declassified documents on Operation Northwoods. Many military and political leaders look at the world as a grand chessboard. Sacrificing pawns (innocent civilians) is sometimes necessary to capture the queen. Explore revealing news articles on military corruption. Then check out eye-opening 9/11 news articles.
Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group
2005-09-29, BBC News
How much influence do private networks of the rich and powerful have on government policies and international relations? One group, the Bilderberg, has often attracted speculation that it forms a shadowy global government. Every year since 1954 [they have brought] together about 120 leading business people and politicians. At this year's meeting in Germany, the audience included the heads of the World Bank and European Central Bank, Chairmen or Chief Executives from Nokia, BP, Unilever, DaimlerChrysler and Pepsi ... editors from five major newspapers, members of parliament, ministers, European commissioners ... and the queen of the Netherlands. The chairman ... is 73-year-old Viscount Etienne Davignon. In an extremely rare interview, he played down the importance of Bilderberg. "I don't think (we are) a global ruling class because I don't think a global ruling class exists." Will Hutton ... who attended a Bilderberg meeting in 1997, says people take part in these networks in order to influence the way the world works, to create what he calls "the international common sense". And that "common sense" is one which supports the interests of Bilderberg's main participants. For Bilderberg's critics the fact that there is almost no publicity about the annual meetings is proof that they are up to no good. Bilderberg meetings often feature future political leaders shortly before they become household names. Bill Clinton went in 1991 while still governor of Arkansas, Tony Blair was there two years later while still an opposition MP. All the recent presidents of the European Commission attended Bilderberg meetings before they were appointed. Informal and private networks like Bilderberg have helped to oil the wheels of global politics and globalisation for the past half a century.
Note: Why is this meeting of top world leaders kept so secret? Why, until a few years ago, was there virtually no reporting on this influential group in the major media? Thankfully, the alternative media has had some good articles. And a Google search can be highly informative. Explore many other revealing major media news articles on powerful secret societies. And for those interested, check out reliable, eye-opening information covering the big picture of how and why these secret societies are using government-sponsored mind control programs to achieve their agenda.
[9/11] Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
2001-09-23, BBC News
Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the [9/11] suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well. The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt. Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September. His photograph was released, and has since appeared in newspapers and on television around the world. He told journalists there that he had nothing to do with the attacks. He has contacted both the Saudi and American authorities. He acknowledges that he attended flight training school at Daytona Beach in the United States, and is indeed the same Waleed Al Shehri to whom the FBI has been referring. But, he says, he left the United States in September last year [and] became a pilot with Saudi Arabian airlines. Abdulaziz Al Omari, another of the Flight 11 hijack suspects ... says he is an engineer with Saudi Telecoms, and that he lost his passport while studying in Denver. Meanwhile ... a London-based Arabic daily says it has interviewed Saeed Alghamdi. He was listed by the FBI as a hijacker in the United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. And there are suggestions that another suspect, Khalid Al Midhar, may also be alive. FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged on Thursday that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt.
Note: The deceptions in the 9/11 official story are clearly shown in this key story. The FBI never revised its list of alleged hijackers. These four are all listed in the official 9/11 Commission report as the hijackers. Click here and scroll down a little over half way to see their photos in the official report. For more, see this webpage. Explore also concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles with evidence of a 9/11 cover-up from reliable major media sources. Then examine an abundance of reliable information suggesting a major 9/11 cover-up.
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9/11 saw much of our privacy swept aside. Coronavirus could end it altogether
2020-05-16, CNN News
Spit into a cup when you land in an airport, and your DNA is stored. Every phone in every city talks to every other nearby device. Cross-border travel is enabled only by governments sharing data about millions of private movements. These are all possible visions of a future that the coronavirus pandemic has rushed on us. But a lurch into an even more intense era of mass data-collection - the vast hoovering up of who went near whom and when, who is healthy to travel, and even scraps of personal DNA languishing in databases - appears to be on the verge of becoming the new reality. It took the attacks of September 11, 2001 to shove aside the previous decade's phobia of mass surveillance ... in exchange for keeping us safe from terror. Over the next 15 years, billions of people agreed to a tacit deal where Facebook or Google were permitted to learn a staggering amount about them. But the challenge presented by Covid-19 - and the urgent need to trace contacts and movements - is of another scale of intimacy. South Korea located over 10,000 cellphones near the latest outbreak and texted them. The UK government has toyed with a centralized database of movements and health records, secured by government cyber-spies, able potentially to see who has been sick and who they have been near. Russia and many others have issued QR codes. China is putting surveillance cameras right outside people's doors. Will we look back at 2020 as the moment privacy finally evaporated?
Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on the coronavirus and the disappearance of privacy from reliable major media sources.
The lack of evidence lockdowns actually worked is a world scandal
2020-05-29, The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
We have detonated the global economy to pursue a lockdown experiment that may not have worked, according to the latest evidence. World-class studies that suggest lockdown did not alter the pandemic's course are mysteriously vanishing into internet obscurity on first contact with the official narrative. This is a scandal so overwhelming that there is only one good place to start: the evidence as it stands. In accordance with pro-lockdown theory, if stay at home orders worked, you might have expected to see daily deaths spike 3-4 weeks after such measures were implemented. But, in Britain, infections may have peaked a week before lockdown, according to Prof Carl Heneghan of Oxford University, with daily deaths in hospitals plateauing a fortnight after it was introduced. We are not an anomaly: peak dates across Europe also seem to confound the official theory. Don't just take my word for it. A University of the East Anglia study posits that Europe's "stay-at-home policies" were not effective. A JP Morgan investigation suggests the virus "likely has its own dynamics" which are "unrelated to often inconsistent lockdown measures". Nobel prize-winning bio-physicist Michael Levitt ... has claimed, sensationally, that the modelling that justified lockdown made the fatally incorrect assumption that Covid-19's spread is continuously exponential. In fact, his research has found an uncanny pattern across numerous countries whereby the virus grows exponentially for two weeks, before slowing seemingly irrespective of ... social distancing measures.
Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on the coronavirus from reliable major media sources.
Beijing tightens grip over coronavirus research, amid US-China row on virus origin
2020-04-16, CNN News
China has imposed restrictions on the publication of academic research on the origins of the novel coronavirus, according to a central government directive and online notices published by two Chinese universities, that have since been removed from the web. Under the new policy, all academic papers on Covid-19 will be subject to extra vetting before being submitted for publication. Studies on the origin of the virus will receive extra scrutiny and must be approved by central government officials. Since late January, Chinese researchers have published a series of Covid-19 studies in influential international medical journals. Some findings about early coronavirus cases - such as when human-to-human transition first appeared - have raised questions over the official government account of the outbreak and sparked controversy on Chinese social media. And now, Chinese authorities appear to be tightening their grip on the publication of Covid-19 research. A Chinese researcher who spoke on condition of anonymity due to fear of retaliation said the move was a worrying development that would likely obstruct important scientific research. "I think it is a coordinated effort from (the) Chinese government to control (the) narrative, and paint it as if the outbreak did not originate in China," the researcher told CNN. Last month, Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, promoted a conspiracy on Twitter that the virus had originated in the US and was brought to China by the US military.
Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on government corruption and the coronavirus from reliable major media sources.
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If you love the oh-so-adorable Chumby as well as some DIY, then the Chumby Guts kit is perfect for you. You can build your own crazy Chumby, but just don't cry over the brutal product name.
Chumby Guts are available for $US139 and include everything you need to construct a Frankenstein's monster version of the gadget. [Maker Shed]


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A Camp Lejeune Marine pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to soliciting bribes from a government contractor while deployed to Iraq.
A Camp Lejeune Marine pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to soliciting bribes from a government contractor while deployed to Iraq.
Julio Arreola, 36, of Camp Lejeune, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to demanding and seeking a bribe in violation of Title 18, United States Code. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 13 where Arreola faces a total maximum sentence of 15 years imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised probation.
Arreola was a gunnery sergeant assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Forces Headquarters Group, Engineer Company, from February to September 2008. During this deployment to Camp Fallujah he supervised construction projects, including obtaining quotes from contractors, initiating purchase orders on behalf of the U.S. Government, and overseeing the delivery of supplies, according to an indictment and information stated in open court.
In June 2008, Arreola told a representative of Davut Construction and Services Company that he would recommend to the Defense Department various items be purchased from Davut in return for cash payments, according to U.S. Attorney Thomas Walker of the Eastern District of North Carolina. Arreola also told the Davut representative that the bribe money could come from inflated price quotes generated by Davut and given to the DoD with the difference turned over to Arreola as a payoff.
�It�s disheartening when a military member abandons his code of conduct and violates a position of trust for personal enrichment,� said John F. Khin, special agent-in-charge of the Southeast Field Office of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service. �We continue to aggressively investigate violators to preserve precious American taxpayer dollars and better support our warfighters serving honorably and selflessly in Southwest Asia.�
NCIS assisted in the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Banumathi Rangarajan is prosecuting the case.
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Drew Barrymore's new movie may find her hitting the skating rink for roller derby, but the "Whip It" director/star is ready to show off her racing skills on television.
Drew is the first to accept Jay Leno's Green Car Challenge, Access Hollywood has learned. The actress will get behind the wheel of a high-powered electric car on the September 19 episode of "The Jay Leno Show" on NBC.
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Jay's new show debuts September 14, with Jerry Seinfeld serving as the first guest.
At the NBC TCA panel in August, Jay revealed to reporters that a number of stars were itching to try out the race track, built next to his new studio.
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"I've told it to a number of stars and, as a matter of fact, even Tom Cruise called and said 'Can I get in early and practice?' I said 'No, nobody gets to practice,'" Jay said at the time. "The fun thing about it, there's a lot of people, [which] people want to see, perhaps athletes and people like this who are not good talkers but would be fun in this sort of environment – to see if Shaquille O'Neal is faster than Cameron Diaz."
"Whip It," Drew's directorial debut, is due October 2.
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I use Imaging Source CCD firewire digital cameras to capture video streams for use in robotics research. These cameras are reasonably priced and performance is (from my perspective) decent. Unfortunately, there are a few aspects to the video produced by these cameras which is unsatisfactory such as susceptibility to motion blur and glare.
I do not have much experience with photography or cameras and I'm not sure what performance I should expect from such devices. Are motion blur and glare unavoidable problems?, what characteristics should I be looking for in a camera which can address these problems?
I work exclusively in Linux so any suggested solution would have to be standards compliant.


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New and exciting discovery opportunities will open up for most people, probably including you, when these three emotionally-attached strongholds of common knowledge are exposed for the falsehoods they are.
Myth #1: Genealogy is all about your last name.
In any other field, anything that represents less than 1% of the whole is considered to be next to nothing. Yet in genealogy, where your last name represents less than 1% of your ancestry most people seem to think genealogy is all about their own surname.
The truth is, no matter whether your surname is very unusual or quite common, less than 1% of your own ancestors had your last name, and more than 99% of your own ancestors had different last names.
So if almost all of your own ancestors had different last names, this means almost all of your own cousins have different last names, and you may share some of the same ancestors with famous Hollywood actors and actresses, like maybe Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie. (see Myth #3 below)
Myth #2: All of your ancestors came from ……
Many people have grown up believing that all of their ancestors came from Ireland, or Italy, or Norway, or Greece, etc. This is simply not true, even if all four of your grandparents came from the same place.
The Big Picture of Genealogy shows that over the centuries your grandparents' ancestors came from many places. No one has ever had ancestors from only one place, everyone has ancestors from many places, and no matter how geographically identified your surname is, this absolutely includes you.
Myth #3: You are not related to anyone famous.
You are absolutely related to some famous people, and some of your ancestors were very remarkable people. Some of them were there at key turning points in history, and some of your cousins can be seen on TV.
Discover some of them and become inspired!
P.S. Of course I recommend the Family Forest® New World Edition as the best place to beginning your journey of discovery.


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"Cancer ... is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth." (Wikipedia)
"Urban Cancer is sprawl development, involving unregulated regional growth." (me)"Urban cancer" immediately came to mind when I read the OD Story "Rezoning plan returns to New Hartford," where developers are asking the Town to re-designate about 250 acres to permit mixed uses including small businesses, retail, offices and restaurants. Supposedly the proposal was withdrawn and resubmitted so that it could incorporate goals from the Town's comprehensive plan. (One suspects that the recent change in the composition of the planning board might also have something to do with it.)
New Hartford Online posted on this subject as well, and listed some of the interesting/troubling comments of the focus group that contributed to the development of the Town's Comprehensive Plan Update:
- This becomes a mini-city if everything comes together . . .
- Town needs to be a leader and needs to be able to discuss issues such as the decay in the City of Utica; NH is a jewel in a rusting hulk
- NH has shown a lot of leadership in spite of itself commercially and etc. . . .
- NH competes with Utica for offices; businesses are moving out but NH isn't prepared with a nice business park
New Hartford development in the Commercial Drive/Seneca Tpk/Route 840 area far exceeds what a town of 20,000 people needs. Rather, this vast commercial development depends upon the 60,000 people living next door in the City of Utica for its survival, for both customers and employees, and to make municipal services affordable.
This development, which is on the southwestern fringe of Greater Utica's urbanized area, would have been more sensibly placed within the City of Utica to be closer to customers/employees, and, more importantly, where the dollars it would generate could be used to maintain municipal services. Instead, the economic activity generated by a Utica-resident population benefits New Hartford, leaving fewer dollars in Utica to maintain services and crumbling infrastructure. The result is what a NH focus group calls "decay in the City of Utica" while "NH is a jewel in a rusting hulk." From a regional perspective, however, the development is more appropriately described as a cancerous tumor because it is draining the life out of its host.
One market cannot spread its population and economic activity over double the area without increasing maintenance costs. Because municipal services need to be extended to cover the newly developed area, it's not hard to see why taxes/user fees in BOTH Utica and NH must go up. This makes the entire Greater Utica area non-competitive with other areas. Like a cancer ultimately kills its host and itself, this sprawl development ultimately will kill the entire region.
How this happened is much like what happens to people when they get old, things start breaking down, and they become prone to cancer. It takes more effort to keep an older person fit and trim than a younger one. If they get the right medicine they can keep going, but the wrong medicine will either do nothing or make things worse.
Utica was a "mature" community sixty years ago when it was filled to capacity, but was showing its age. Envious of the shining new cities that arose from war's ashes in Europe, US experts of the day recommended duplicating the process by leveling whole sections of cities (with bulldozers instead of bombs) and building anew: Urban Renewal. At the same time, US experts recommended arterial highways as the antidote to traffic congestion, predicting that downtowns would continue to grow by making it easier to whisk people in an out. In hindsight, both were not only the wrong medications, they combined to make the patient very sick, not only here, but in other cities as well. Urban Renewal destroyed the "critical mass" of activity needed to attract new investors. Arterials destroyed the advantage of a central location in the city by making suburban greenfields on the urban fringe as accessible as downtown. Instead of high quality construction on expensive downtown land, we have low quality construction on the fringe, and depressed values downtown.
More bad medicine came when regionalization of water and sewer systems with uniform rates made outlying suburban locations as cheap to develop as in-city locations in spite of the greater infrastructure needed to extend the services there. Compound this with local development policies that gave PILOTs and other tax breaks for green-field developments. Development in New Hartford is probably more the product of these occurrances than anything done by the Town itself.
Something is very wrong with local development. Figuring out the answer will not be easy.


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By DAVID GREEN
Fayette needs some money to save some money, but village fiscal officer Lisa Zuver says that cash is getting tight.
The village has the opportunity to accept a grant for street repair, but it's a matching grant with a 50/50 split. The village's share would initially come through a zero percent loan.
Zuver opened the conversation at last week's committee-of-the-whole meeting by telling council members, "We have to get control of spending. It's getting way out of hand."
The streets, parks and water enhancement funds, in particular, are quite overdrawn, she said, and several other funds are also currently in the red. If nothing changes, there will be no carryover of funds into the next year, she warned.
That presents a problem immediately as far as streets are concerned, Zuver said, because she learned from the Ohio Public Works Commission that a grant sought by former administrator Amy Metz was approved. The grant would pay for repair of village streets not involved in the impending sewer project.
"We received half grant, half loan," Zuver explained, "but the problem is I don't know how to pay for the loan. We'd be stupid not to take advantage of it. We're not going to get an opportunity like this again."
Zuver told council she wishes they had approved the income tax reciprocity measure discussed in January 2011. Several area communities add 0.5 percent to the income tax for residents who pay taxes to the communities where they work. Otherwise, none of the income tax paid returns to the village where the residents live.
Although the measure was expected to bring in $25,000 annually, council took no action on the proposal at that time, noting that water and sewer rates would be increasing.
Zuver explained that the reciprocity money would have been placed in a debt service fund that could be used only to pay off debts, such as the loan for the street work.
Fayette mayor Ruth Marlatt asked Zuver to find out when the village must decide whether or not to accept the grant. She would like the finance committee to take a look at the issue and also at spending in general.
CAR WASH—Eric and Mary Johnson, co-owners of Eagle Car Wash along with Mark and Michelle Pilbeam, told council that the car wash was expected to be back in business July 12.
Eric repeated a request made in the past: Permission to install a well at the site on the edge of the village. He said the facility uses between 800,000 and a million gallons of water a year. Switching from village water to well water could keep the car wash in operation due to the cost savings.
Wastewater would still go through the village sewer system, but maintenance coordinator Tom Clemensen pointed out the problem with that: Sewer rates are based on water usage. There would be no way to track usage unless a flow meter were installed. Clemensen said he would investigate the cost of a meter.
Johnson said he wanted the village water connection to remain in case the ground water supply was not always sufficient.
MAINTENANCE—Clemensen said that street repairs and stump removal would focus on the parade route for the Bullthistle Festival.
In his report, Clemensen mentioned that brush pick-up is now scheduled the fourth and first weeks of the month; that sections of the village water system are in poor condition, such as on Ohio Street where the scars of five digs can be seen in a two-block area; and that village worker Matt Moats is doing an excellent job with record-keeping involved in maintenance of village equipment.
Clemensen said he asked ARS refuse about curbside recycling and learned that it would cost each customer $3 a month. Residents would save money in collection costs because of less trash, he said, but they would have to pay for the recycling service.
The park board, he said, needs to decide if it wants to provide labor at the village recycling center and continue to receive monthly payments from the sale of recyclables.
The next phase of tree removal will focus along the creek where falling branches have slowed the flow.
In regard to the county water resources plan, Clemensen suggested that Fayette—the only county community with large water resources—should hire a consultant and make its own comprehensive water plan.
SHOOTING RANGE—Responding to concern about potential liability issues at the village shooting range on the sewage lagoon property, police chief Jason Simon said that for at least 10 years residents have been allowed to use the range only with permission from the on-duty police officer.
Over the years, he said, a few people have been removed from the site because they had no permission. A "no trespassing" sign is in place on a gate, however, the gate is not always closed.
Administrator Steve Blue suggested that a formal policy should be approved by council rather than giving tacit approval. The issue will be discussed at the committee level.
OFFICERS—Chief Simon said a shortage of part-time officers exists and it will get worse in the second half of the year. He will check at a police academy for potential part-time officers.


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New London's bookstore got bigger and better
When late last year I visited New London's first new bookstore to open, since, well, the time when State Street was still a creepy, empty pedestrian walk, I heard a lot of apologies from owner Chris Jones.
Indeed, Jones and his partner, Gina Holmes Jones, had hurried to open their new Monte Cristo Bookshop toward the close of the holiday shopping season, and they were busy still painting and putting together bookshelves.
The opening inventory in the Washington Street store was also on the makeshift side, largely the remnants of a closed Borders store they bought on Craigslist. Their starting capital was about $10,000, which they raised in a crowd-funding campaign.
When I caught up with Jones this week, inside the bright new Monte Cristo Bookshop, which has moved to the corner of Green and Golden streets downtown, just the toss of a book from the municipal parking lots on Eugene O'Neill Drive, Jones noted that he no longer has to make apologies for the store.
The shop re-opened in its new space, a sunny room with a high, tin ceiling and lots of big plate glass windows, just before Sailfest, and Jones said they packed in the customers that weekend, a cool refuge where people came to relax and browse.
Monte Cristo is certainly now a full-fledged bookstore, with a big inventory of both new and used books, books in lots of different categories, from a big selection of young adult fiction to bestsellers, biography and children's books.
The move turned out to be the product of good timing, Jones said. Their old landlord had new tenants lined up and their new landlord was happy to have them, in a building that is being renovated to include a collection of artist studios and work spaces.
The store has already brought a nice cultural vibe to Green Street and the surrounding neighborhood.
One of the customers who stopped in to see Jones Friday was a playwright on her way to her regular Friday lunch of playwrights who gather each week for the bean soup special at the Dutch Tavern.
Next to the Dutch is a new skateboard shop where some young men were ogling a wide assortment of boards. Around the corner on State Street, Mangetout, the organic restaurant, had a blackboard in the window advertising its Friday night dinner specials.
Some of the passers-by on the busy street corner included a gaggle of lawyers on the way back to their downtown offices, carrying plastic bags from the midday Friday farmer's market on the Parade. I also saw two men walking back up from City Pier, their fishing poles tucked under their arms.
Downtown is looking as lively lately as I have ever seen it, and a bookstore is a remarkable new asset.
Chris and Gina Jones gave the city a great gift with the Monte Cristo, which regularly holds author readings and community events and which features the work of more than 100 local writers.
A rack in the front of the store even features the top 10 bestselling local authors.
Chris and Gina Jones did it all during an especially busy year, with Gina giving birth to their first child. The baby was born June 23. The new store opened July 12.
"Having a baby is such a nice thing to come home to," Chris Jones said. "It's something that makes me forget about all the work I have to do.
"We have a baby store and a real baby."
Jones said they now have so many books that it took 25 trips in a U-Haul truck to move them all.
They moved the store's piano by having five guys push it down State Street.
They didn't get a parade permit, Chris Jones said, although so many people stopped to watch, they might have needed one.
They did, though, get a green light in front of City Hall.
While I was chatting with Jones Friday, he was setting up folding chairs for an event that night that was to include both a writer reading from his new work and a dance performance.
The notion of New London aspiring to be a hip little city got spoiled when it was mixed up with the phase of redevelopment that included taking people's homes by eminent domain.
That's too bad, since New London, week by week, is looking more and more like a hip little city.
This is the opinion of David Collins.
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Amarantus BioSciences Appoints Clinton O. Allen To Advisory Board
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Amarantus BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: AMBS), a biotechnology company developing new treatments and diagnostics for Parkinson's disease and Traumatic Brain Injury centred on its proprietary anti-apoptosis therapeutic protein MANF, today announced that it has appointed Clinton O. Allen to its Advisory Board. Mr. Allen will work with management at Amarantus to improve internal controls, prepare due diligence materials for investors and implement corporate governance best practices.
"Clinton Allen is a seasoned biopharmaceutical executive with exceptional leadership capabilities and experience in Big Pharma," said Gerald E. Commissiong, President & CEO of Amarantus. "He will be a tremendous asset for the Company as we execute on our corporate strategy."
Mr. Allen has extensive experience in the biopharmaceutical space. He has held senior leadership positions at Bristol Myers Squibb as Senior Director of Corporate Compliance Audit, Director of Risk Management, Director of Product Development and Commercialization, Director of In-licensing and Business Development. Mr. Allen was a captain in the United States Army and received his master in Environmental Management & Sciences from Tufts University.
"I am very excited to join Amarantus at this critical time in its growth cycle," said Clinton O. Allen, newly appointed advisor to Amarantus. "The team at Amarantus has been working tremendously hard over the last few years to bring the MANF Program closer to actualizing its true potential. Now that the Company is looking at various partnering and funding opportunities to drive shareholder value, it is an opportune time to join the team in order meticulously evaluate proposals and make recommendations for future growth."
About Amarantus BioSciences, Inc.
Amarantus BioSciences, Inc. is a development-stage biotechnology company founded in January 2008. The Company has a focus on developing certain biologics surrounding the intellectual property and proprietary technologies it owns to treat and/or diagnose Parkinson's disease, Traumatic Brain Injury and other human diseases. The Company owns the intellectual property rights to a therapeutic protein known as Mesencephalic-Astrocyte-derived Neurotrophic Factor ("MANF") and is developing MANF-based products as treatments for brain disorders. The Company also is a Founding Member of the Coalition for Concussion Treatment (#C4CT), a movement initiated in collaboration with Brewer Sports International seeking to raise awareness of new treatments in development for concussions and nervous-system disorders. For further information please visit www.Amarantus.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the possible benefits of MANF therapeutic applications and/or advantages presented by Amarantus' PhenoGuard technology, as well as statements about expectations, plans and prospects of the development of Amarantus' new product candidates. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including the risks that the anticipated benefits of the therapeutic drug candidates or discovery platforms, as well as the risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to the development of Amarantus' new product candidates, including those identified under "Risk Factors" in Amarantus' most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and in other filings Amarantus periodically makes with the SEC. Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements Amarantus does not undertake to update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect a change in its views or events or circumstances that occur after the date of this presentation.
Amarantus BioSciences, Inc.
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Happy Birthday Matolek, sto lat. Koziolek Matolek (Matolek the Billy-goat) was born in 1933. You might say he put Pacanow "on the map". You see Matolek wanted to go to Pacanow because he heard that you could get good (goat) shoes in Pacanow.
Now this charming character has always had a special place in Stanczyk's heart, because my great-grandfather, Tomasz Leszczynski was a shoe-maker (szewc) / inn keeper. So perhaps Matolek would have bought his shoes from my great-grandfather. Did he ever find Pacanow? I do not know.
Koziolek Matolek (Matolek the Billy-goat) was the creation of Kornel Makuszyński (story) and Marian Walentynowicz (art).
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When it slows down time, it actually speeds up (make sense) - so ideally you couldn't stop time because you would have to move at an infinite speed.
He is a mechanized manbot that carries two swords. One is completely make of shadow and the other one light.
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The University of St Andrews is located in the city of St Andrews. Founded in 1411, St Andrews is the oldest university in Scotland.The city of St Andrews is small, with a population of 16,000 and the University has 6,000 faculty and students, which means an average of 1 in 3 of the people you see in shops or on the streets will in some way be connected to the University. Local and University events in the town blend to offer a rich cultural and social life for students and townspeople alike. The antiquity of the city and the university means wonderful old buildings, city walls, shops, and houses of stone, with a street plan with is still medieval. Many students use bicycles as a convenient way of getting around the town but all areas of the university are within easy walking distance of one another.
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I have been working with gold leaf recently and have incorporated it into some of my abstract works; you can see these new works at: http://www.jennifergardner.com/goldleaf.htm
What does PSA after an artist's name mean?
I regularly get asked the question "what does PSA after your name mean?" so thought I'd write a short blog post on this topic.
In order to be able to place the initials "PSA" after your name infers that you have "Signature" status in the Pastel Society of America (PSA).
There are two levels of membership in the PSA, "Associate" and "Signature". In order to achieve Signature status your work must be juried by the PSA's Jury of Admissions to determine if you meet the standards of professional excellence required for Signature status. If the Jury of Admissions does not confer Signature status, they may award the artist an Associate membership (this is by no means guaranteed).
Therefore, to achieve Signature status in the PSA and be allowed to place the initials PSA after your name, you do have to achieve a very high standard of professional excellence that is awarded to very few artists.
The PSA Jury of Admissions provides the following information about the jurying process:
- The jury does not know the name of the applicant nor does the jury consider an applicant's resume.
- All works should be of equal consistent outstanding quality and must demonstrate consistency in style, originality of subject matter and interpretation of it.
- The rendering of subject matter, and elements of composition are important as well as correct perspective.
- All works must be original art and not copied from professional photographs (obviously work completed in a class or under a teacher's supervision in a workshop is ineligible).
- If all the standards of professional excellence are met, a Signature membership requires a majority vote of the jury.
I feel privileged to be able to be able to place "PSA" after my name….
The "Sold" versus "Private Collection" question…
Over the past few months several of my clients have asked for prices of works on my website that I have marked as 'Private Collection'.
It has become obvious to me that many clients are confused by that terminology; which suggests to me that the use of the term, instead of simply saying 'Sold', is perhaps jargon more familiar to artists and galleries.
So, in the spirit of responding to client feedback and making my website more client friendly, I am changing all of my paintings marked 'Private Collection' on my website to 'Sold' to avoid confusion.
Hopefully this should clarify the position for my clients and avoid disappointment when I have to explain that a specific piece has already found a new home!
… just my view and I hope this helps if you are having a similar experience!
Happy New Year!
Best Regards,
Jennifer Gardner, PSA
New paintings now available…
I have a selection of new paintings available on my website at: http://www.jennifergardner.com/new.htm
I hope you enjoy them. If you are interested in a particular piece please don't hesitate to contact me.
Jennifer Gardner, PSA
So, what are pastels anyway?
I paint with both watercolor and pastel and I get a lot of questions about pastels when I am exhibiting at the outdoor fine art shows in New England and Florida. Many people ask me if they are chalk or crayon, and I've even been asked if they are like charcoal; none of these are correct, so I thought I'd start my first blog post with a little bit of history and information about the pastel medium.
Pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick. It consists of pure powdered pigment and a binder – generally gum arabic or gum trabacanth. Pastels have no chalk component. The pigments (color) used in pastels are the same as those used to produce oil paints, acrylics and watercolor. However, as this medium has the highest pigment concentration of all painting media they allow for very intense saturated colors.
When properly protected behind glass, pastel is THE most permanent of all media, for it never cracks, darkens or yellows; on the contrary, a pastel painting will maintain its original brilliance and vibrancy.
Pastel is a dry medium and is available in varying degrees of hardness and softness; it is quite distinct from oil pastel, which is an entirely different medium.
I use both soft and hard pastel sticks. Soft pastels have a higher portion of pigment and less binder, resulting in brighter, purer and more vibrant colors. Hard pastels have a higher portion of binder and less pigment, producing a sharp drawing material that is useful for fine details, for drawing outlines and adding accents.
My favorite brands include Sennelier, Schminke, Mount Vision, and Nu-Pastel.
A pastel painting is created by moving the sticks over an abrasive ground, leaving color on the grain of the surface. A pastel support/ground needs to provide a "tooth" (often finely ground pumice or marble dust or vegetable fiber) to which the pastel will adhere, holding the pigment in place.
My preferred abrasive supports/grounds are Sennelier La Carte, which is a high quality, acid-free, heavyweight paper with a surface of slightly abrasive vegetable fiber; and Kitty Wallis paper, which is also a Museum Grade high quality, acid-free, paper using a 100% cotton base with a surface of white aluminum oxide abrasive.
Historically, 19th Century French painter Edgar Degas was a prolific user of pastel. Mary Cassatt first introduced pastel to the USA and became its strongest proponent of her era.
Pastels have undergone resurgence in recent years and are now popular in modern art due to the medium's broad range of bright colors, durability and versatility.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me or comment on the post!
Jennifer Gardner, PSA


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What is the question? Here is the generalized version. The optional words are in italics:
I am looking for (name or description of ancestor), I (alternate choices: our family, my aunt etc.) have been looking (searching, researching etc.) this ancestor for (years, a very long time etc.) without success and (I, we, they etc.) have looked everywhere. Can you help me?
The difficulty of the form is, of course, making the verbs agree in number and the rest of the words agree in gender, but that is a minor difficulty and can be addressed in future revisions of the standard question.
Apologies to those who have attended my classes in the past when I have used this as an example, but hearing this question several times this week got me going on the subject again.
So, what is my response? In reality, the responses are anything but standard. Every question is unique and there is no "standard" answer, but there is a standard response. I begin by asking the following questions:
Who is the person you are seeking?
This is a more complex question than you might expect. The purpose of asking this question includes both finding out what the researcher already knows about the ancestor and what the researcher knows generally about the ancestors that link back to the one sought. In many cases, I find that the researcher really has no idea about either the target ancestor or that ancestor's descendants. Depending on the answer to this question, I can determine where the research needs to start.
What time period are we talking about?
Clearly, depending on whether we are talking about someone who lived in the 20th Century or the 15th Century, makes a huge difference in the type of research necessary to find that ancestor.
Where did at least one of the ancestor's life events occur?
Of all the questions I ask, this is the most important. Since generally, genealogically important records are created in different jurisdictions depending on the location of events, the actual, specific locations of the events in an ancestor's life are crucial to finding any information about the ancestors.
If there are responses that are less than helpful, answers to the third question are the most important. Until a concrete and accurate place is identified for at least one event in the ancestor's life, there is no use in doing general non-directed research. Doing not directed research is similar to shooting into the ocean and hoping you will hit a fish. It is possible, but not likely. The most obvious reason for my concern is that people can have the same or very similar names and can also have similar dates, but it is less frequent that all three, name, dates and places, all are the same for different people even those with similar names.
Unfortunately, when the researcher has no idea about the location of any particular event associated with the target ancestor, I have to tell them that until they do more research on that ancestor's family and particularly descendants, there is very little I can do to help them move back in time.
The task of the genealogist can be reduced to this: identify and document with appropriate sources his or her ancestors. Of this process, identifying the exact place of each event is crucial to making any progress. So, if you come to me for help, you can expect to have me review the same standard responses.


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Stem Cells from Extracted Teeth?
|Other than relieving the pain of a toothache, tooth extraction has had very little benefit to dental patients…until now. Now, dentists can work with specialized laboratories to harvest and store stem cells from extracted teeth, in the hopes that these cells can serve as valuable healing aids in the event of a future injury or illness.
Did you know that you can now store stem cells that have been harvested from your own extracted teeth? Remarkable advances in medical science have allowed for the use of stem cells to regenerate and eventually replace lost or damaged cells in the body. By having your own stem cells stored, you could be preserving the cure for future diseases or injuries you may incur.
Stem cells, unlike other cells in the body, can regenerate and produce specialized cell types. Stem cells are responsible for healing the body when it is injured. Scientists are now able to harvest stem cells and control their growth into specialized cells, such as skin, blood, cartilage, and muscle cells. This has allowed for the birth of treatments for a range of diseases and conditions, including brain injury, certain cancers, Parkinson's disease, heart disease, sports injuries, and many more.
Using a person's own stem cells for medical treatment guarantees a lower risk of rejection, which means fewer immune-weakening drugs are needed. With this in mind, people are beginning to harvest and store stem cells in case they are needed in the event of a future illness or injury.
Stem cells are found in most tissues in the body, but the stem cells in extracted, viable teeth are often more accessible than cells found in other tissues. Furthermore, the stem cells found in teeth are believed to be some of the strongest stem cells found in the body. These cells replicate more quickly and for a longer amount of time than stem cells harvested from other parts of the body.
Any tooth with healthy pulp is a good source of stem cells, including lost baby teeth, wisdom teeth, or teeth extracted for orthodontics. Upon extraction, teeth are placed into a special transport kit, where they will be nourished to preserve living tissues on the way to the preservation laboratory.
The extent to which stem cells will influence modern medicine is yet unknown, but the possibilities are vast. There are a number of companies that work with dentists to extract and save stem cells from lost teeth. If you are interested in dental stem cell banking, contact your dentist for more information.
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