Sunday, November 08, 2009

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GOP shouts down Womens Caucus on House floor

clipped by: dulios
clippers remarks: Obstructionist tactics in the health care debate.

Heres a nice mash-up.

On Saturday morning, a group of House Republicans -- led by Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia) -- attempted to stop the Democratic Womens Caucus from making their arguments about how the health bill would benefit women by screaming over them.


Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) only had time to say "Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to--," before Price shouted "I object." The presiding chair, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) made gestures to maintain control, declaring that "the request is not yet before the House" and that Price was "out of order," to little effect. Capps attempted to go on, but Price continued shouting "I object! I object! I object!"


The same shouting tactics were used on Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Ohio), who asked angrily, "Do I not have the right to be able to continue my sentence without objections that are trying to censor my remarks here on the floor that I have a right to make as a member of this House?"


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Fort Hood victims: Thirteen Profiles, faces of valor, their lives lost to a madman, in pictures

clipped by: clip-on-tie
clippers remarks: PC sickness killed our soldiers. It killed Americans, our friends and those that we care for and love.
Clip Source: www.cnn.com
Several hundred soldiers and family members from Fort Hood gather Friday evening on post for a candlelight vigil.

Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) -- Thirteen flag-draped coffins left Fort Hood on Friday as authorities searched for a motive in the massacre that left more than 50 casualties at the largest U.S. military base.


Thursdays mass shooting killed 12 soldiers and one civilian and wounded 38 people at the Fort Hood Army Post in Texas. The suspect in the shooting, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a licensed Army psychiatrist, was among the two dozen who remained hospitalized Friday night.

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Beautiful Man

clipped by: Antara
clippers remarks: "He looks like a damned handsome man to me. You cant keep character from shining through, his is luminescent, any more than you can fake whats not there" (from post)


Retired Army Sgt. Richard Yarosh has gotten used to the stares. His face is blanketed in knotty scar tissue. His nose tip is missing. His ears are gone, as is part of his right leg. His fingers are permanently bent and rigid.

All is the result of an explosion in Iraq that doused him in fuel and fire three years ago.

"I know people are curious," he said. "Theyll stop in their tracks and look. I guess I can understand. I probably would have stared, too."

Soon, a lot more people will be staring at Yaroshs face but in a very different way: A life-sized oil painting of him will go on display at the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington later this month. The portrait, by Matthew Mitchell, is a finalist in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, which recognizes modern portraiture at the gallery known for its collection of notable Americans. [Continued]




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Fort Hood Suspect Said His Goodbyes Before Rampage

clipped by: merrie
clippers remarks: The rampage unfolded at a center where some 300 unarmed soldiers were lined up for vaccines and eye tests.

Soldiers reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" " an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" " before opening fire Thursday, said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the base commander. He said officials had not confirmed Hasan made the comment.

Hasan was due to be deployed to Afghanistan to help soldiers with combat stress, a task hed done stateside with returning soldiers, the Army said.

In any event, the major was saying goodbyes and dispensing belongings to neighbors.

Jose Padilla, the owner of Hasans apartment complex, said Hasan gave him notice two weeks ago that he was moving out this week.

Earlier this week, Hasan asked Padilla his native language. When Padilla said it was Spanish, Hasan immediately went up to his apartment to get him a Spanish-language Quran. Padilla said Hasan also refused to reclaim his deposit and last months rent.....
Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

FORT HOOD, Texas ? As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship ? common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instead, authorities say, he went on the killing spree that left 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, dead.



The 39-year-old Army psychiatrist emerged as a study in contradictions: a polite man who stewed with discontent, a counselor who needed to be counseled himself, a professional healer now suspected of cutting down the fellow soldiers he was sworn to help.


Handout photo showing Major Hasan, U.S. Army doctor identified by authorities as a suspect in shooting at U.S. Army post in Fort Hood, Texas

Investigators were trying to piece together how and why Hasan allegedly gunned down his comrades in the worst case of violence on a military base in the U.S.


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Healthcare Provision Seeks To Embrace Prayer Treatments

clipped by: wiccantexan
Clip Source: www.latimes.com
Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses.

The provision was inserted by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) with the support of Democratic Sens. John F. Kerry and the late Edward M. Kennedy, both of Massachusetts, home to the headquarters of the Church of Christ, Scientist.

The measure would put Christian Science prayer treatments -- which substitute for or supplement medical treatments -- on the same footing as clinical medicine. While not mentioning the church by name, it would prohibit discrimination against "religious and spiritual healthcare."

But critics say the measure could have a broader effect, conferring new status and medical legitimacy on practices that lie outside the realm of science.


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La Strada(The Road:1954) Ending Scene

clipped by: swampfoxz
clippers remarks: okay, i confess i have never heard of this film until earlier this year and while watching it i didnt know what would be in the last scene. but when i saw it, i was literally stunned by its power. i cant remember a scene in? the movies, especially that captured such monumental heartbreak, regret and loneliness. what was really devestating was knowing i have played that scene in my life too many times, it is terribly familiar.
Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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okay, i confess i have never heard of this film until earlier this year and while watching it i didnt know what would be in the last scene. but when i saw it, i was literally stunned by its power. i cant remember a scene in? the movies, especially that captured such monumental heartbreak, regret and loneliness. what was really devestating was knowing i have played that scene in my life too many times, it is terribly familiar.

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Peter OToole & Anthony Quinn - Lawrence of Arabia (1962

clipped by: swampfoxz
clippers remarks: Peter OToole as T.E. Lawrence, Anthony Quinn as Auda abu Tayi and Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali in this epic movie filmed in 1962.
Renowned as the best picture of the year and winner of 7 academy awards in 1963, this film was directed by David Lean and written by the real and true T.E. Lawrence
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Peter OToole & Anthony Quinn - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)


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House passes health care bill

clipped by: infidel70
clippers remarks: FTA: The legislation would require most Americans to carry insurance and provide federal subsidies to those who otherwise could not afford it. Large companies would have to offer coverage to their employees. Both consumers and companies would be slapped with penalties if they defied the governments mandates.

Insurance industry practices such as denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions would be banned, and insurers would no longer be able to charge higher premiums on the basis of gender or medical history. In a further slap, the industry would lose its exemption from federal antitrust restrictions on price gouging, bid rigging and market allocation.
Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON ? In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.


The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress.

In the run-up to a final vote, conservatives from the two political parties joined forces to impose tough new restrictions on abortion coverage in insurance policies to be sold to many individuals and small groups. They prevailed on a roll call of 240-194.

Ironically, that only solidified support for the legislation, clearing the way for conservative Democrats to vote for it.



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European Court bans classroom crucifixes

clipped by: Antara
clippers remarks: "Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom and revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows"
- A.N. Whitehead
Clip Source: www.corriere.it
The woman who took the case to the Strasbourg court is Soile Lautsi Albertin, an Italian citizen of Finnish origin. In 2002, she asked the Vittorino da Feltre primary and middle school at Abano Terme in the province of Padua, attended by her two children, to remove the crucifixes from classrooms in accordance with the principle of the secular state.

The case went back to the TAR, which in 2005 itself rejected the appeal, maintaining that the crucifix is a symbol of Italian history and culture, and so of the country?s identity and of the principles of equality, liberty, tolerance and secularism of the state, a position confirmed by Italy?s Council of State in 2006. But now, the tables have been turned.

the Italian government must pay her 5,000 euros in moral damages. It is the Strasbourg court?s first ruling on religious symbols in school classrooms. ?Now Italy will have to take account of the sentence by the European court of human rights?, commented Ms Lautsi


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Flags Were Key Link to Cop Slaying, Bombings

clipped by: merrie
clippers remarks: slaying last Saturday night

A search of Monforts apartment this morning turned up evidence that police say connects the man to the Oct. 22 bombing and arson of the maintenance yard, where three police cars and an RV used as a mobile precinct were damaged, according to Assistant Seattle Police Chief Jim Pugel. A note threatening to kill police officers was left at the bombing site, sources had said earlier.

Pugel said an item found at the maintenance yard was similar to one found near the shooting scene. Law-enforcement sources said the item was an American flag.

News reports at the time said fliers also were left at the maintenance yard referring to an anti-police-brutality rally and citing the case of a King County sheriffs deputy accused of assaulting a teenage girl in a SeaTac holding cell.


An American flag left at the scene of Officer Timothy Brentons slaying on Halloween and at a city maintenance yard where four police vehicles were torched on Oct. 22 gave

An American flag left at the scene of Officer Timothy Brentons slaying on Halloween and at a city maintenance yard where four police vehicles were torched on Oct. 22 gave investigators a key link between the two crimes even before a Tukwila man was identified as the suspect.


Detectives are now trying to determine why the man suspected of both crimes, Christopher John Monfort, 41, held a grudge against police that went from destructive to lethal in the span of nine days.


Monfort was shot Friday afternoon outside his Tukwila apartment after police said he pulled a gun on detectives. He was listed in serious condition this morning at Harborview Medical Center.


Mourners gather at KeyArena for slain officers memorial
Mourners gathered at KeyArena for the memorial service of Seattle police Officer Timothy Brenton on November 6, 2009.


Police were led to the apartment after learning he owned a car that matched the description of a 1980 to 1982 Datsun 210 coupe seen near the site of Brentons


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Update Notifier 1.1.6.141 Freeware

clipped by: merrie
clippers remarks: All your software updates in one place! ... Easy, Fast & FREE

About Us
Clean Softs Professional Association (CSPA) is a non-profit association that tries to introduce a new standard for verifying softs against viruses, spyware & trojans. The CSPA strives to show a professional image of the software industry.


Clip Source: cleansofts.org


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Most of the time having the latest version of a software is a good thing. Usually software updates add new features, which makes the software more usefull. Also with every update a software becomes more secure and more stable by fixing bugs & vulnerabilities from previous versions.


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The Forever War Of The Mind

clipped by: debbyski
Clip Source: www.nytimes.com
Wars are not over when the shooting stops. They live on in the lives of those who fight them. That is the curse of the soldier. He never forgets.

War is haunting. Death. Pain. Blood. Dismemberment. A buddy dying in your arms.

After America?s wars, the used-up fighters are too often left to fend for themselves.

This is inexcusable, and it comes with frightening moral costs

In his poem ?The Dead Young Soldiers,? Archibald MacLeish, whose younger brother died in World War I, has the soldiers in the poem tell us:?We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.? Until we help our returning soldiers get their lives back when they come home, the promise of restoring that meaning will go unfulfilled.



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Right-Wingers in Congress Love Their Own Govt.-Run Health Care

clipped by: chestnut501
clippers remarks: But They Hate Sharing It
Clip Source: www.alternet.org
Members of Congress and their families are blessed with their very own gold-plated, taxpayer-financed, Washington-run health care system.

Right under the Capitol dome, conveniently situated between the Senate and House chamber, is the Office of the Attending Physician. Inside are more than a dozen navy doctors, nurses, medical technicians, pharmacists and other health professionals, all employed by the government solely to attend to a select clientele: the 535 members of Congress.

No appointment needed, no pesky insurance forms to fill out, no co-pay -- just care.

For this, members pay a flat fee of $503 a year. A year! You and I are taxed to cover the real costs of this elite service. And thats not the end of public health benefits for lawmakers -- if they need a specialist, an operation, therapy, rehab or other pricey procedure, its all free at the governments Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval hospitals.


If its good enough for them, why not us?


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Liberals Finally Got the Military Murders Theyve Been Asking For

clipped by: merrie
clippers remarks: I imagine that President Obamas old mentors Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn are also pleased with the attack. After all, they sent Ayers girlfriend and other domestic terrorists of the Weather Underground to attack an Army dance at Fort Dix, an assault thwarted only by their own bomb-building ineptitude. If they had been competent, their attack on Fort Dix would likely have been worse than yesterdays assault.

So what say you, progressives... was the massacre of American soldiers all you dreamed it might be?

Disdain for the military is a constant theme on the political left, a group that has consistently portrayed soldiers as violent psychopaths and babykillers for far longer than Ive been alive. Ive noted images of progressive protesters carrying signs attacking the troops on numerous occasions. Among the most galling of their constant steam of obscenities directed at our soldiers are variations of the sentiment, "We support our troops when they shoot their officers."






These same liberals must have been thrilled yesterday afternoon to discover that an officer opened fire on our troops. Its time for them to break out their magic markers and pen new signs to praise Major Nidal Malik Hasan for doing what theyve asked.



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The Victims of Fort Hood

clipped by: merrie
clippers remarks: According to an officer who served with him at Walter Reed Hospital, Hasan spoke approvingly of the shooting of Army recruiters this past summer by a Muslim convert in Little Rock, Arkansas. Authorities also investigated Hasan as long as six months ago for internet postings discussing suicide bombings and other attacks, though they have not yet determined definitively if he was the author of those posts. One of those posts was a blog entry that deified suicide bombers as being similar to soldiers who throw themselves on hand grenades in order to save the lives of their fellow soldiers.

A cousin, Nader Hasan, builds a picture of the shooter as a bullied Muslim who was a good person who did not even like weapons, was conflicted about his military service, and was against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

But postings that are thought to be Major Hasan?s don?t match the portrait of a soldier who was conflicted. They present us with a picture of someone who housed beliefs that
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One of the more brief but powerful scenes at the beginning of 1998?s Saving Private Ryan is when Mrs. Ryan sees a government car slowly approaching her home. She walks out onto her front porch, only to slowly collapse into sobs when she realizes that the unexpected arrival heralds the death of her sons. There are no words in that scene. Some feelings are simply beyond words.


On Thursday afternoon, family members of real soldiers experienced the crushing sense of loss and isolation when they learned that their loved ones were inexplicably cut down on base.


Not in Iraq or Afghanistan, but in Texas.


The knee-jerk response of many to seeing the shooter?s Arabic name was to assume this was a terrorist attack. Impulsive or not, facts now suggest that Hasan?s Islamic faith was indeed a motivating factor in the killings. That supposition seems backed by claims he shouted ?Allahu Akbar!? before he began his rampage.


Bob Owens blogs at Confederate Yankee.


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Clippers comparing our troops to terrorists

clipped by: n2sooners
Clip Source: clipmarks.com
11-5-2009 6:42 PM
n2sooners

A terrorist by any other name.....

11-5-2009 6:48 PM
katsteevns

.......is a soldier.

Yesterday 3:37 PM
aperiozar

n2sooners, your inability to understand the point katsteevns is making reflects negatively on your IQ status.

A killer is a killer. If you dress him up in a military uniform and send him to invade Iraq he is still a killer. The fact that the American government pays his salary, simply makes it state terrorism, thats all.

Coming back to Fort Hood - it is a place where killers have been trained for decades. From this place many soldiers have left who went on to kill numerous innocent civilians in far-away places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Popped just for the comment by "aperiozar" on 11/6/09

Well said!


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Multiverses - Multiplying Universes?

clipped by: celestialdancer

HOW many universes are there? Cosmologists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin at Stanford University in California calculate that the number dwarfs the 10500 universes postulated in string theory, and raise the provocative notion that the answer may depend on the human brain.


Seeing double.  Its getting crowded out there in the multiverse (Image: Time Life Pictures/NASA/Getty)

This concept of a "multiverse" could explain a puzzling mystery - why dark energy, the furtive force that is accelerating the expansion of space, appears improbably fine-tuned for life. With a large number of universes, there is bound to be one that has a dark energy value like ours.

It might be, however, that this number is irrelevant, and that in a world ruled by quantum physics what matters is how many universes a single observer can distinguish. "Before quantum mechanics," says Linde, "we thought that reality was a well-defined word." In classical physics, observers are irrelevant - we simply want to know how many universes exist.



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Owens Breaks 4 Campaign Promises in First Hour in Congress

clipped by: merrie
clippers remarks: Mr. Owens also indicated during his campaign that he was firmly opposed to cutting Medicare benefits, taxing health care benefits, and increased taxes on the middle class in any way as you can see clearly in the screenshot taken directly from Mr. Owens campaign website.

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The House Health reform bill contains sections that cut Medicare benefits, tax existing health care benefits, and increases taxes on the middle class, yet Mr. Owens stated today that he will now vote in favor of those things contrary to what he had promised the voters of NYs 23rd Congressional District that he would vote against.

Mr. Owens indicated in his press release today that "This legislation will reform the insurance industry and provide increased access to affordable healthcare without taxing healthcare benefits, cutting Medicare benefits or raising taxes on the middle class, and that is exactly the direction.....
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Congressman-elect Bill Owens was sworn in at noon today.

Owens indicated in a press release released shortly afterwards that he was now in favor of the the "Affordable Healthcare for America Act" bill in direct contrast to his earlier position during the election campaign.


According to Politico.com, Mr. Owens assured voters that he felt the public option had no place in the health care reform bill.  Contrary to that position, Mr. Owens now indicates that he intends to vote in favor of the bill even though it now contains a public option.


UPDATED: A spokesman for Congressman Owens indicated correctly that Mr. Owens had recanted his solid position against public option later in the campaign, clarifying that he did not wish public option to be a litmus test for the Health Reform bill and that on Oct. 30th, several days prior to the election, in a debate had stated that he generally supported the public option as it was now written (at that time.)





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Ross Perot Jr Haggling to Finish Off the Rhino He Shot That Got Away

clipped by: celestialdancer
clippers remarks: "White rhino (Ceratotherum simum) are considered a conservation-dependent species and are classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Intense efforts have increased the population from fewer than 100 in 1895 to approximately 17,500 today.

Supporters of trophy hunting claim it is a viable method for ?managing? the white rhino population. The practice also brings in tourism dollars and helps fund conservation efforts. Many others oppose the notion of trophy hunting, pointing out that killing an animal to get a thrill - and acquire a stuffed head for one?s wall - is not an acceptable ?sport?."

Apparently his son Hill Perot got his trophy, "white rhino head".
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White rhino image for article about Ross Perot Jr. rhino trophy hunt in South Africa

The son of former American Presidential candidate Ross Perot - Henry Ross Perot Jr. - is reportedly engaged in a legal battle involving South African wildlife authorities over the head of rhino he wounded during a trophy hunt earlier this year.


Perot supposedly shot a bull rhino at Mkhuze game reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, but the animal escaped. However, Perot believes he?s still entitled to his trophy - the rhino?s head.


According to South Africa?s Independent Online, wildlife authorities have not been able to locate the wounded rhino - or a dead rhino.


A professional hunter acting for Perot then engaged lawyers to allow a ?follow-up? operation and it was agreed that Perot could have the animal?s head if it was tracked down during a hunting operation scheduled to start this weekend.


The professional hunter accompanying Perot is said to be Garry Kelly, who claims that the purpose of a second hunt was to destroy the wounded rhino in order to end its suffering.



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The First Video Footage of the Worlds Most Elusive Cat

clipped by: celestialdancer
clippers remarks: "Andrew Hearn and Joanna Ross, researchers from the United Kingdom?s Global Canopy Programme?s Bornean Wild Cat & Clouded Leopard Project, have been surveying five species of wild cats of Borneo for several years. Their work has uncovered some remarkable findings. Besides capturing the world?s first ever video of the rare cat, the two are also credited for snapping the first photograph of a live bay cat. Based in the Tabin Wildlife Reserve in Sabah, camera trapping and radio-tracking methods are utilized in their research. The program also provides educational materials, community surveys and training courses as well. " (from the article)
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Researchers in Malaysian Borneo have captured the world?s most elusive and endangered cat on film. The beautiful Bornean bay cat, Catopuma badia, is so rare; a live cat was not even photographed until 1998!


Although the amazing video only lasts seven seconds, the chestnut-red cat with the long tail can be clearly seen walking through the forest.  Because so little is known about this particular wild cat, even its eating habits are unknown. 


Endemic to the forests of Borneo, threats to this elusive animal include illegal pet trade, poaching, deforestation and habitat loss largely due to palm oil plantations.  Listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, it is estimated that only 2,500 Bornean bay cats remain in the wild today.


ALong with numerous photographs, the Bornean bay cat video footage is available on the MongaBay website.


Catopuma badia


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House passes health care reform bill!

clipped by: aklimento
clippers remarks: This is our first victory of historical significance. We did it! It will be much less injustice and suffering in the society, where taking advantage off weak and defenseless is not viewing as breaking the right of every human for decent existence.
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House passes health care reform bill; Vote garners only one Republican


Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Obama successfully lead an effort to pass health care reform in the House of Representatives.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Obama successfully lead an effort to pass health care reform in the House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON - The biggest overhaul of Americas medical system since Medicare took a big step forward Saturday night, narrowly passing the House with a controversial amendment to restrict coverage of abortion.


The bill passed 220-215, with 39 Democrats voting no and one Republican, Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.), voting in favor of the landmark bill.


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was forced to allow the abortion amendment after a deal with conservative Democrats collapsed and they threatened to sink the reform bill.


The move enraged liberals, but most agreed to stay on board and President Obama traveled to the House to make a personal appeal and seal the deal.


The bill proposes to spend $1.055 trillion to add 36 million Americans to the insurance rolls

A $61 billion GOP substitute bill failed


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Combat Wounded, Combat Dead

clipped by: merrie
clippers remarks: defense such as we?re already seeing explored on his behalf ? rather than as a committed jihadi, an unlawful combatant, a terrorist, a deserter who aided and abetted the enemy, and a traitor who took up arms against his nation. It?s a push Republican lawmakers and those Democrats who agree could take up, that would command a lot of public support. Politicization of justice? Tell me that hasn?t happened already in this country. I?d call it a simple demand for justice. We owe it to the dead and the wounded to acknowledge why and under what circumstances they died and bled.

Here?s an American hero who deserves the highest honors we can bestow on her. NY Daily News. Sgt. Kimberly Munley, cop, gunfighting woman. Went into a hot situation without regard for her own safety, gave better than she got, wounded in action, got the job done. I?d call that gallantry and valor in the face of the enemy, plus war wounds. Maybe even above and beyond. She?s reportedly an Army vet.

? deserve Purple Hearts. Their killer probably deserves desertion, treason and terrorism charges if, as all indicators seem to very strongly suggest, he was engaged in jihad, from his violence-inciting, hateful rants about the Koran, his denunciation of the United States as ?the aggressor? in arguments with fellow soldiers, to his shouts of ?Allahu Akhbar,? to what they believe were his Internet defenses of suicide bombings, to his choice of targets, the Soldier Readiness Center at Fort Hood. If al-Qaeda is an amorphous enemy, an idea made situationally manifest by the will of its adherents, and he was in fact an adherent of its violent agenda, then he is the enemy, his actions were acts of war, and they bled and died under enemy fire. 


Is any of the above very likely to be offically recognized? No. No matter what is learned about his motivation, in all likelihood he will be treated as a murder defendant in either a civilian or a military court ? possibly with an insanity or bullying


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Dont get too excited about Health reform bill

clipped by: jasonkelly
Clip Source: www.truthdig.com
It?s easy to be cynical about all this. The House measure, more ambitious than what they?re talking about in the Senate, doesn?t do a whole lot to control runaway health care costs. And while the insurance companies will have to play a more honest game of pool, they?ll be flush with millions of new paying customers. Then there?s the public insurance option, a nice gesture but really so stingy it would be met with riots in civilized Europe.


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Cougars Believed to Be Alive In Ontario

clipped by: celestialdancer
clippers remarks: "...with sightings being reported all across Ontario, it?s clear that while the Cougar may be as elusive as big foot, these animals are out there and probably in large numbers."

What amazing cats!!!
Clip Source: ecoworldly.com


The Eastern Cougar has become somewhat like big foot in some parts of Ontario, particularly Southern Ontario; while they once thrived in that region, the last documented living cougar in Ontario was recorded in 1938. Around this stage the Eastern Cougar was moved to the extinct list in the province of Ontario in Canada; however, a number of reported and confirmed sightings over the past decade have caused experts to reconsider if the cougar

is truly extinct in Ontario, or if it?s simply endangered.

Since 2002 alone, there have been over 500 reported sightings in Ontario

While very few of these sightings have actually been confirmed; there is enough DNA evidence collected through hair and Cougar scat to indicate that the Eastern Cougar is still alive and well in Ontario, though the true numbers cannot be confirmed.

Cougar Sightings Map from the Ontario Puma Foundation

Few Ontarians are aware that there might still be Cougars living among them


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Mystical Martian Moon Phobos

clipped by: dmoonme1
clippers remarks: Can you imagine id the man & his wife who discovered this moon could see the wonderful pictures today?
Also can we imagine that in another 122 years what they will tell about these magnificent moons?
Clip Source: apod.nasa.gov
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Stickney Crater

Explanation: Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planets moons in 1877. Over 9 kilometers across, Stickney is nearly half the diameter of Phobos itself, so large that the impact that blasted out the crater likely came close to shattering the tiny moon. This stunning, enhanced-color image of Stickney and surroundings was recorded by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as it passed within some six thousand kilometers of Phobos in March of 2008. Even though the surface gravity of asteroid-like Phobos is less than 1/1000th Earths gravity, streaks suggest loose material has slid down inside the crater walls over time. Light bluish regions near the craters rim could indicate a relatively freshly exposed surface.


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Someone remind Howard ONE Reason He lost the Election..Border Protection Policy

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Howard unleashes on Rudd over immigration


Former prime minister John Howard has lashed out at Kevin Rudds handling of asylum seekers and accused his Government of wasting the nations cash.


Mr Rudds approval rating dropped considerably last week as the impasse continues over what to do with hundreds of Australia-bound asylum seekers who remain in limbo.


John Howard:

Mr Howard used an interview with The Sunday Telegraph to attack the Federal Governments so-called Indonesian solution and defended his own record on immigration.


"We stopped the boats coming. The facts speak for themselves. The Indonesian solution? Well, there doesnt seem to be one," he said.



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Beautiful Nature Photography from Alaska

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Beautiful Nature Photography from Alaska

Purchased by the U.S. government from Russia, Alaska became a part of the union as the 48th state of the USA on January 3rd 1959. But, although we consider Alaska a cold, lifeless area, we are very far from the truth. Alaska offers natural wonders that blend the end of their temperatures with a rich and diverse flora and fauna. This collection of 23 wonders of nature in Alaska show a lively area in each season. From the frozen rock solid to the delicate plains of this near Arctic land.


Alaska Range Aerial

Florida to Alaska on Bicycle (#171) September 18, 1997: Chandalar Shelf

Powder Blue Evening by Gary Minish

Idyllic Alaska

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Mistical Alaska

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Another Peterson Lake Sunset

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Waterfall at Mendenhall Glacier

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Glacier in Western Canada

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Frozen waterfall on the Seward Highway, near Turnagain Arm, Anchorage, Alaska

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Hyder, Alaska

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10 Amazing Smoke Art Pieces

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10 Amazing Smoke Art Pieces




This mesmerizing image was created using smoke and is titled Jaws. (Link)



Sublime, beautiful and sensual ... absolutely unique inspiration of smoke art. (Link)



By photographer Dave Barstow. (Link)



Check out Mehmet Ozgurs awe-inspiring "smoke works" photography. (Link | Photo)



Inspiration of digital art and illustration, by graphic designer Ruslan Latypov. (Link)



Irene Muller examines the inner wisps and curls of colored smoke, producing photographs worthy to be framed in the process. This is the smoke thats produced in explosive interaction with electricity. (Link)



This incredible piece was called Darklord. (Link)



Really very creative smoke art. (Link)



Nice smoke art fish. (Link)



The most basic combination of elements: fire and air (smoke) - make an endlessly thrilling and enchanting dance of evolving forms. (Link)


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Deadly Drugs (Infomation is Beautiful)

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clippers remarks: Last week, the government has sacked its most senior drugs advisor, Dr Professor Nutt, after he claimed cannabis was no more harmful than alcohol. And that horse-riding was riskier than taking ecstasy.
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Deadly Drugs


Last week, the government has sacked its most senior drugs advisor, Dr Professor Nutt, after he claimed cannabis was no more harmful than alcohol. And that horse-riding was riskier than taking ecstasy.


(Technically hes right. The lifetime odds of dying from ecstasy overdose is 1 in 17,803. The risk of dying from horse-riding is around double - 1 in 7,833.)


Taking the science behind his statement and mashing it up with press coverage of drug risks creates an interesting picture.


Information is beautiful graphic - drugs

The governments own data backs up Nutts assertions. Cannabis seems pretty risk-free, mortality-wise, and its dangers are over-reported in the popular media. Meanwhile, fatalities from legal drugs like paracetamol and anti-depressants are higher than most illicit drugs combined. And those fatalities mostly go unreported.


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If You Want a Job Tomorrow, Cultivate Your Career Today

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I just completed a search for a new job. In these economic times, finding a job can be daunting, even in the software industry, which has fared better than most. (Today, it was announced that the official unemployment rate in the U.S. is 10.2%, the highest level in 25 years.) A job search can be harder if youre a software developer of a certain age (I turn the big Five-Oh in January).


Despite these obstacles, this was the easiest and most rewarding job search of my career. I had the good fortune to receive several excellent job offers. I regret that I had to turn down all but one of the opportunities. (I start at DRW Holdings after Thanksgiving.)



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Wonderful Chinese Proverbs...

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"Quarreling is like cutting water with a sword".

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song".

"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills".

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are".


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Stumble upon...

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Simple and lovely...pic

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Invisible Lion Cage - Too Close For Comfort?

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Jeepers... are you sure this thing is safe? Amazing invisible cage which puts you a whisker away from lions jaws

The four passengers in the jeep must feel a whisker away from death as a lion jumps up on to their bonnet for lunch.

But thats all part of the attraction. The jeep is a new zoo exhibit which allows visitors to get incredibly close to the lions.

The back part of the vehicle, up to where the windscreen should be, is actually on the outside of the reinforced glass cage. The bonnet is on the inside, and covered with meat to entice the big cats closer.

Lunch time: The astonished tourists are just inches away from the lions jaws at the Werribee Open Range Zoo in Victoria, Australia

Dont mind me: The lion tucks into his food as the bemused tourists look on

This incredible Lions on the Edge exhibit, which puts you just inches from a lion?s jaws, is one of the biggest attractions at the zoo.


A pause between courses: The lion polishes off his meal, and waits hungrily for the next

Come a little closer: The jungle king seems unperturbed by the toddler immediately behind him

You dont realise just how big they are until they are staring you in the face like that.


Behind the looking glass: Another view of the exhibit from the zoos website

This unique opportunity to get up close to the fearsome cats has won the 25-year-old zoo an award

Its both frightening, exciting and exhilarating all at the same time.

Brotherly love: Tombo and Tonyi cuddle together unaware that they are being watched in this photograph taken by a camera hidden beneath a log in their enclosure


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Elvis - Walk a Mile In my Shoes

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Elvis - Walk a Mile In my Shoes


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The Savage Detective (CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS)

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CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS, anthropologist, writer and adventurer, died just over a week ago at age 100.

His edifice, structuralism ? the theory of a structural unity in all cultures ?

In his book ?La Pensée Sauvage,? published in 1962, he showed these ?primitive? people as the equals of those in the most elevated cultures of the civilized world.

his humanity and his melancholy kindness, which made him reluctant to go into the field for fear of intruding on the people he studied or finding himself disappointed by what had been lost to the evolution of modern times.

He expressed in his books the beauty and intelligibility of myths. And he kept in his heart the warmth and the modesty of the young man he once was, a man who was struck by a pessimistic sympathy for dying civilizations, dying people.

He was never sure that what he had put to light would even survive the present,

elucidated in ?Tristes Tropiques,?

?The world began without the human race and will certainly end without it.?


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Something Scary in the Pantry

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Your body is probably home to a chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA. It?s a synthetic estrogen that United States factories now use in everything from plastics to epoxies ? to the tune of six pounds per American per year. That?s a lot of estrogen.


More than 92 percent of Americans have BPA in their urine, and scientists have linked it ? though not conclusively ? to everything from breast cancer to obesity, from attention deficit disorder to genital abnormalities in boys and girls alike.

Consumer Reports magazine tested an array of brand-name canned foods for a report in its December issue and found BPA in almost all of them.

The BPA in the food probably came from an interior coating used in many cans.

?The vast majority of independent scientists ? those not working for industry ? are concerned about early-life low-dose exposures to BPA,?

American Medical Association reported

humans with higher levels of BPA i

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the Treachery of image - Mgritte pipes diversity

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The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images 1928?29) is a series of paintings by René Magritte, the most noted of which is famous for its inscription Ceci nest pas une pipe

As Magritte himself commented: "The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, its just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture This is a pipe, Id have been lying!"
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With "The Treachery of Images" Magritte questions, the inherent tendency of the human mind to habitually label everything we see, overlooking the need to find a deeper meaning. Magritte presents a very simple example to convey how our perceptions and the habitual use of language can falsely manipulate our thinking. "The Treachery of Images" was a powerful work with which Rene Magritte challenges the common norms of communication and interpretation. It was a great influence on many conceptual artists.
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Congressional Fraud NY-23

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Mr. Owens assured voters that he felt the public option had no place in the health care reform bill.  Contrary to that position, Mr. Owens now indicates that he intends to vote in favor of the bill even though it now contains a public option.

A spokesman for Congressman Owens indicated correctly that Mr. Owens had recanted his solid position against public option later in the campaign, clarifying that he did not wish public option to be a litmus test for the Health Reform bill and that on Oct. 30th, several days prior to the election, in a debate had stated that he generally supported the public option as it was now written (at that time.)

Many feel that it was unlikely Mr. Owens would have won those crucial few thousand votes if the voting public was aware of his intent

The majority of residents in this district do not support the Health Reform bill as it is now written and many feel like theyve become victims of a fraud perpetrated by their chosen candidate.


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The 15 Worst Porno Ideas Possible

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And the WINNER is...

Dr.Macaroni. Congrats, You win money!



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Russian Icebreaker

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The Northern coast of Russia is covered with through the most part of the year. People of Russia couldn?t stand the situation when they have a 5000 mile long coastline but can?t transport anything across it. They thought they can fight the nature for their freedom of movement and have implemented those giant, nuclear-powdered icebreakers. They are completely independent from the fuel and are being powered by small nuclear power-plants on board. Here are some photos of those machines and the coastline across which they swim crushing all this ice and scaring the polar bears.


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The Old Vet and His Tank

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Tempting Toys

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Russian toys

Ever wondered how plush toys do look like in Russia. If they use same teddy bears as American kids have or they have some Ivan Bears?

I am not sure about little Winnie-the-Poohs but they for sure have some tigers and more, being done on this toy factory.

And no matter what toys they would make for Russian children they still are afraid of N1H1 virus using masks too.


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What?s this all about? Is it a new approach to sexual upbringing from early age?
Giving kids the possibility to know the reality of things way before they get it traditionally?
Like we are all the same and no need to hide some of our body parts.


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Fantastic Optical Illusion Artworks by Rob Gonsalves

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Fantastic Optical Illusion Artworks by Rob Gonsalves

Rob Gonsalves is an artist from Toronto, Canada. What I really love in his work is the surrealism inspiration and how he mixes elements to create amazing transitions from bridges to clouds to caravels. Even though his work is categorized as surrealistic, Robs work is deliberately planned and results from a conscious thought, the exact opposite of surrealism.


For more information visit Rob Goncalves website


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House on a Rock at Rhode Island

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Clingstone, an unusual and such a vintage, 103-year-old mansion in Rhode Island?s Narragansett Bay, survives through the love and hard work of family and friends. Henry Wood, the owner, runs the house like a camp where all skilled workers welcome. The Jamestown Boatyard hauls the family?s boats and floating dock and stores them each winter in return for a week?s use of the house in the summer.

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Mr. Wood, a 79-year-old Boston architect, bought the house with his ex-wife Joan in 1961 for $3,600. It had been empty for two decades. Clingstone had been built by a distant cousin, J.S. Lovering Wharton. Mr. Wharton worked with an artist, William Trost Richards, to create a house of picture windows with 23 rooms on three stories radiating off a vast central hall. The total cost of the construction, which was completed in 1905, was $36,982.99. However, bear in mind that the currency in 1905 is not the same as for now. Possibly the price is estimated about $4 million


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Saved Jobs?

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California State University officials reported late last week that they saved more jobs with stimulus money than the number of jobs saved in Texas ? and in 44 other states.


In a required state report to the federal government, the university system said the $268.5 million it received in stimulus funding through October allowed it to retain 26,156 employees.


That total represents more than half of CSUs statewide work force. However, university officials confirmed Thursday that half their workers were not going to be laid off without the stimulus dollars.


"This is not really a real number of people," CSU spokeswoman Clara Potes-Fellow said. "Its like a budget number."


Multiple cases of inflated and underreported job tallies have surfaced since the federal government released detailed stimulus reports last week, said Craig Jennings, a senior policy analyst at OMB Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group that tracks federal spending.



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Afghanistan Coalition About To Burst

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"The coalition is about to burst in Afghanistan, and the mission nearing an end, assesses an Afghanistan-researcher.

That is the assessment from Gen. Henry Jedig Jorgensen, Acting Head of Research Unit Danish Institute for Military Studies after the heads of military command and officers today in the Jyllands-Posten have expressed great skepticism about the Afghanistan mission.

He stresses that the countries behind the Afghanistan mission are about to [pull out]."

Canada?s top general issues order to start planning pullout of military units


Gen Walter Natynczyk, Canadas Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), addresses soldiers of a forward operating base during his first visit with Canadian troops on bases throughout Kandahar Province in Afghanistan from 8 to 12 July 2008.

Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk?s direction to units for a ?drawdown? of forces in Afghanistan lays the groundwork for what will be a lengthy process of transporting tonnes of equipment and supplies back home.


Canada?s military mission in Kandahar is scheduled to end in the summer of 2011.


 ?It?s a directive that people start the planning,? Natynczyk said in an interview with the Citizen Thursday night. ?Based on the (Parliamentary) mandate we have to make the preparations right now in terms of the plans with our allies (and) all of the logistics because we have so much stuff there, you can only imagine. It?s going to be more than a year process to haul it all out.?


Parliament has set 2011 as the end of the mission. ?You have to put an end date on these things,? Prime Minister Stephen Harper told reporters last year.



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How to Destroy Liquors Worth $200 000 in 5 Seconds

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13 Disaster and end of world movies

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Disasterpiece theater: Thirteen cinematic tales of disaster



Its the end of the world as we know it... and we feel fascinated




Reality is terrifying enough, so why do we crave disaster movies? Just when we thought we were safely out of the 70s Irwin Allen-drenched disaster era ("The Poseidon Adventure," "The Towering Inferno"), the 90s revived the genre with star-studded, expensive epics of Gotterdammerung. Remember "Deep Impact," "Armageddon" and "Volcano?"


Now, Roland Emmerich has decided to once again destroy the world, this time for good it seems in "2012." With that in mind, weve come up with a cursory list of movies that feed our fascination with cataclysmic fear -- in many forms -- and entertain our thirst for watching stuff blow up. It looks like weve been paranoid a lot longer than we thought.



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Virtual bonfire night

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Virtual bonfire night

Organisers of a Guy Fawkes night party in Devon claim health and safety officials have forced them to watch a film of a bonfire rather than the real thing.


Virtual bonfire /PA pics

The event, dubbed non fire night, at Ilfracombe Rugby Club will see about 2,000 revellers hold sparklers and gather around a big screen showing footage of a bonfire.


Recorded images of a roaring real fire will be projected onto the 16ft by 12ft screen mounted on a scaffolding stand - at a cost of £300.


Organisers say they were put off having a real fire by the mountain of paperwork and regulations set by council chiefs, reports the Daily Telegraph.


Officials at the authority said that to have a real fire they would require five qualified fire marshals and metal barricades to keep people at a safe distance.


The non-fire night will also involve giant heaters, lighting and a smoke machine to give the crowd the taste of a real bonfire night.



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GE Reveals Phone-Sized Ultrasound Device

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GEs new ultrasound device fits in the palm of your hand.

The first time I saw this thing I thought, ?Holy crap! An iPod mated with an X-ray machine.? General Electric (NYSE: GE) CEO and Chairman Jeff Immett debuted a pocket sized ultrasound scanner a few weeks ago at the Web2.0 conference in San Francisco. The Vscan is aimed at enhancing the level of diagnostic power of the average doctor, helping detect dangerous conditions before they get worse. Check out the introductory video from GE Reports after the break.

Ultrasound has a wide range of uses from examining fetuses to checking on the heart. It?s non-invasive, provides relatively quick results, and costs less than other examinations. The Vscan puts all of those advantages in the palm of your doctor?s hand. GE hopes that the device will become as common as the stethoscopes doctors rely upon today.


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Space Hotel on Schedule to Open spa

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Brothel offers discount to cyclists

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Brothel offers discounts to cyclists

A Berlin brothel is doing its bit for the environment - by offering discounts to customers who arrive on bicycles.


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"The recession has hit our industry hard," said Thomas Goetz, owner of the Maison denvie brothel.


"Obviously we hope that the discount will attract more people. Its good for business, its good for the environment - and its good for the girls."


Customers who arrive on a bicycle or who can prove they took public transportation get a five euro (£4.30) discount from the usual 70-euro fee for a 45 minute session.


"We have around three to five new customers coming in daily to take advantage of the discount," he said, adding the green rebate has helped alleviate traffic and parking congestion in the neighbourhood.



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Making healthcare better

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clippers remarks: Interesting look at the need to move to a more evidence-based approach.
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For most of human history

doctors have done more harm than good

Yet patients continued to go to doctors, and many continued to put great in faith in medicine.

There was a strong intuitive logic behind those old treatments

They made a lot more sense on their face than the abstract theories about germs and viruses

In the end, of course, the theories about germs and viruses won out. They had the advantage of being correct, and doctors ? haltingly and skeptically, but eventually ? embraced them.

But there is one important way in which medicine never quite adopted the scientific method.

once a treatment enters the mainstream ? once we know whether it works in certain situations ? science is largely left behind. The next questions ? when to use it and on which patients ? become matters of judgment, not measurement. The decision is, once again, left to a doctor?s informed intuition.

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How to Bypass ?This video is not available in your country?

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clippers remarks: Both workarounds above are brilliant and work like a charm. Also, if someone posts a youtube on CM, for example, and I get the dreaded *not available in your country" message, you cant even see what the youtube was supposed to be! So, to get around that, I just do a Google search for the youtube URL itself and the top search result will tell you the title and exactly what video they want to keep from you. Then I just paste that title into youtubes search box and voila! I hope this will help others who also HATE that damned *not available* message. Enjoy. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pXWTG7XzH4
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This video is not available in your country

You might not notice this if you are staying in US, but some YouTube videos, especially official music videos, are restricted to viewers from the United States only. Whenever a viewer from outside US wants to view those videos, YouTube says ?This video is not available in your country?.

Workaround #1 ? Using Hide My Ass!


Hide My Ass! works flawlessly in bypassing the YouTube region filter. As Hide My Ass! streams YouTube video using its own player, it will prevent the YouTube player from displaying the ?We?re sorry, this video is no longer available? message. The server is located in US, therefore videos restricted to US viewers will play without a problem.


Hide My Ass!s custom YouTube player

Workaround #2 ? Convert & Download Using Zamzar


Alternatively, you can use Zamzar to convert the YouTube video into any video format, then download and watch it locally. You might want to try other YouTube video downloaders too, but I have no luck so far.


Zamzar

Censorship? Discrimination? Muting? To hell with all that.



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"If an Institution is Too Big to Fail, It Is Too Big to Exist"

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Clip Source: www.truthout.org

Friday 06 November 2009

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) proposed legislation calling for the breakup of failing financial institutions within a year.

Alison Vekshin, reporting for Bloomberg:

"U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders unveiled legislation requiring Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to name banks whose collapse may shake the economy and break up the firms in a year, fueling efforts to end taxpayers bailouts....

"The legislation would give Geithner 90 days to list the commercial and investment banks, hedge funds and insurance companies deemed ?too big to fail.? Those firms would be broken up within a year, he said. Representative Paul Kanjorski, a Pennsylvania Democrat, is considering a measure in the House that would break up large financial firms."


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10 Things You Didnt Know About Orgasm

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clippers remarks: Did you know, that theoretically dead people can orgasm? Or that orgasm can cause bad breath? I sure didnt and Im not sure I really wanted to know. All I can say is wow and ewww. The video wouldnt clip, so go to the source.
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Mary Roach: 10 things you didnt know about orgasm

"Bonk" author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about sexual climax, ranging from the bizarre to the hilarious. (This talk is aimed at adults. Viewer discretion advised.)



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Free Dictionary Project

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Tests and quizzes




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Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

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Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)


Vatnajökull is the largest glacier in Iceland. It is located in the south-east of the island, covering more than 8% of the country. With a size of 8,100 km², it is the largest glacier in Europe in volume (3,100 km³) and the second largest in area. The average thickness of the ice is 400 m, with a maximum thickness of 1,000 m. Under the glacier, as under many of the glaciers of Iceland, there are several volcanoes.
So here are some b/w pics of the largest glacier in Europe, don?t miss them, they are beautiful.

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Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

Black and white photos of the largest glacier in Europe (29 pics)

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FLIP ? The Flipping Ship

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FLIP

FLIP (or, Floating Instrument Platform) is an amazing ship ? technically it isn?t a ship, but more like a buoy since it doesn?t have its own propulsion and has to be towed around ? but I bet you though no other sea vessels in the world can do what it can ? intentionally ?capsizing? so that it can turn 90 degrees, and turn from ?ship-mode? to a ?platform mode? by flooding its tail:


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The Flip - Animation

There is more good information at Popular Mechanics site in the story titled:



More Links:






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Sex and school don?t mix

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Teenagers Kissing

So Ed Balls has decreed that sex education will be compulsory. (At the moment, parents can opt out if they don?t fancy the idea of their little darlings being given the facts of life by spotty Mr Boil in a grotty classroom.) From 2011 the nanny state will be given full control of the birds and the bees (opening instalments from age five; no parental opt-out at all for 15-year-olds) and if you bunk off, you will be fined.


Sex ed has, of course, always been a bit of a joke. I have vivid memories of a flustered biology teacher showing 30 tittering girls how to put a condom on a boiling tube (the tube was rather puny, and the rubber sagged off it like an old balloon; poor Mrs W stuttered that it wasn?t quite like that in real life).


The argument expounded by Balls is that knowledge is power: telling kids how it all works and encouraging them to use contraception is meant to enable them to say no or to take precautions.


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A Guide to Understanding the Tactics of the Southern Poverty Law Center in the Immigration Debate

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clippers remarks: It is therefore essential that we thoroughly examine and respond to the charges and the motives of those leveling the accusations. This publication is designed for the media, legislators and others who are actively involved in writing about or formulating immigration policy. Its purpose is to provide: * An overview of the unscrupulous tactics now being used in the immigration debate which distort factual reporting and limit meaningful debate. * A summary of FAIR?s 30-year record of advocacy on immigration. * An examination into the SPLC?s motives, terminology and techniques used against FAIR and others. * An objective third party analysis of the SPLC?s tactics and motivations. * Conclusions and suggestions for fair reporting and open mindedness.
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The debate about U.S. immigration policy is a difficult and often emotional one. In recent years, a new component has been added. Shifting focus away from a debate based on the merits of various policy options, some of those advocating higher levels of immigration and amnesty for illegal aliens have resorted to attacking and impugning the motives of their opponents.


In the eyes of the law, there is no such thing as a ?hate group.? It does not exist in federal statutes. It is a term entirely concocted by the SPLC. Moreover, the SPLC itself has no concrete definition. While lacking any useful specificity, the SPLC nonetheless deliberately uses this highly charged term to achieve political ends and to create an illusion that there is a surge of dangerous groups operating in America in order to increase the SPLC fundraising. In the process, the truth gets lost, reputations are damaged, and meaningful discourse on immigration policy is muted.


The full guide is available in pdf format.






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Republicans for Rape????

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Jeff Sessions (R-AL)




Richard Shelby (R-AL)




Jon Kyl (R-AZ)




John McCain (R-AZ)




Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)




Johnny Isakson (R-GA)


Mike Crapo (R-ID)




James Risch (R-ID)




Sam Brownback (R-KS)




Pat Roberts (R-KS)




Jim Inhofe (R-OK)




Mitch McConnell (R-KY)


Below is the list of thirty legislators who were brave enough to stand up in defense of rape and vote against Senator Al Frankens anti-rape amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill.  We applaud these courageous men!  Roll over the portraits with your mouse to see the Senators phone number, or click on a portrait to visit the Senators contact page.   We encourage you to send your kind words to these gentlemen!




Republicans for Rape


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African Muslim with violent genes gets sentence cut

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clippers remarks: *wtf*......
Clip Source: www.nature.com

An Italian court has cut the sentence given to a convicted murderer by a year because he has genes linked to violent behaviour ? the first time that behavioural genetics has affected a sentence passed by a European court. But researchers contacted by Nature have questioned whether the decision was based on sound science.


Chromosomes

A court in Italy has cut a prisoners jail term because he has genes associated with aggressive behaviour.Ingram Publishing

Abdelmalek Bayout, an Algerian citizen who has lived in Italy since 1993, admitted in 2007 to stabbing and killing Walter Felipe Novoa Perez on 10 March. Perez, a Colombian living in Italy, had, according to Bayouts testimony, insulted him over the kohl eye make-up the Algerian was wearing. Bayout, a Muslim, claims he wore the make-up for religious reasons.


?Theres increasing evidence that some genes together with a particular environmental insult may predispose people to certain behaviour.?

Pietro Pietrini
University of Pisa


Terrie Moffitt


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thin film solar

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A new solar industry report shows that global PV production in 2008 reached 6.4 GW ? an increase of 60% from 2007. China and Taiwan are emerging as world leaders with collectively 40% of the world market share.


So why the buzz? Thin film solar uses exotic mixtures of metals to achieve much lighter and flexible PV cells than silicon, and can be applied directly onto foil, windows, and potentially even used as solar paint Several companies and technologies are competing for this market that will continue to be one of the fastest growing renewable sectors.


The field is exploding. The many breaking thin-film solar stories this week include:



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Stimulus

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clippers remarks: Hows that stimulus working out for you?
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Apostle Claver

clipped by: Normn8or
clippers remarks: Absolutely a Stand Up Man. Outstanding.
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Apostle Claver


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Need an Ask and Tell Policy Regarding Jihadists

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clippers remarks: Also obvious now is the fact that political correctness has run so amok that a jackass jihadist in our armed forces can spew his anti-American babble, blog about killing us, set red flags off all over the psychological place, and no one holds him down and scrapes his frontal lobe with a cement trowel. Once again, going PC gets people killed. To heck with being PC with people who want us dead; our playing the nice guy with this goon?s right to be a murderous idiot got our beloved soldiers butchered. Allow me to go back to these little Saladins and their normative murderous targets, por favor. Who are the regular marks for the mighty jihadists? Let?s see ? unarmed soldiers, people eating calzones at a Pizza Hut, buses full of little school children, and people flying coach to grandmother?s house. Pathetic. Truly ignoble and pathetic. It seems as if going head-to-head with an American badass is just too, too much for these jihadist jackanapes.
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We Need an Ask and Tell Policy Regarding Jihadists in Our Military

When the initial news reports started pouring out of Fort Hood about the mass murder (read terrorist attack) of some of America?s finest, I turned to my wife and daughter and without hesitation said, ?I?ll bet you a hundred bucks it was a Muslim.? I was spot on. But shame on me for thinking such a thing, right? (Yeah, those of us who immediately thought that the murderer, given the circumstances, had to be a Muslim, we?re the bad guys.)


Yep, a Religion of Peace adherent, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, as you well know by now, opened fire as he screamed ?Allahu Akbar!? on a room full of unarmed soldiers, killing 13 and wounding 30. Unarmed soldiers. Wow. What a wussy. What a ?mighty warrior? for Allah, eh? Unarmed soldiers. I say it?s high time to begin carrying on base because, obviously, such d-bags cannot read that military bases are to be gun free zones.



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November

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No sun - no moon!
No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! -
November!


By Thomas Hood


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Success Quotes...

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Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for the success.
You may be whatever you resolve to be - determine to be something in the world and you will be something.

" I cannot," never accomplished anything. "I will try" has worked wonders.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, which we must fervently believe in, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.


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Is the Catholic Church a Force for Good in the World?

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clippers remarks: I saw this debate on BBC yesterday and it was really good. They poll people both before and after the debate about how they see the Catholic Church and the results were a bit surprising, but then again, not. Make up your own mind.

(5 parts)
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The Intelligence Squared Debate - Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry vs. The Catholics (Part 1/5)


Is the Catholic church a force for good in the world?

"It stands up for the oppressed and offers spiritual succour to billions say the Churchs supporters. But what about the Churchs teachings on condoms, gays and women priests, ask the detractors."

Speaking for the motion, Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Anne Widdencombe MP. Speaking against the motion, Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry.

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Abraham Maslow Quotes

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clippers remarks: We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow

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Abraham Maslow Quotes

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didnt go insane.

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that youll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Ones only rival is ones own potentialities. Ones only failure is failing to live up to ones own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.


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Know your sports drinks

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There are now several distinct types of sports drinks available for athletes. Be sure to use the right product for your needs.


Regular Sports Drinks

the traditional, basic formulation of water, 6 to 10 percent carbohydrate, and electrolyte minerals

useful before exercise (to hydrate and increase blood glucose levels) and during exercise lasting 60 minutes of longer

may be inadequate

during multi-hour workouts

Cytomax

PowerBar Endurance

Low-Calorie Sports Drinks

perform similarly to plain water

PowerAde Zero

Accelerade Hydro

Enhanced Sports Drinks

offers various extra ingredients that the regular sports drinks don?t have

Most of these added ingredients are worthless

The only sports drink ingredient extras worth considering are added sodium, caffeine, and protein or amino acids.


EFS

Heed

Ultra-Endurance Sports Drinks

like crosses between regular sports drinks and meal replacement shakes

not as easily digested during high-intensity exercise

CarboPro Powder

Perpetuem

Recovery Sports Drinks

for use immediately after exercise

accelerate muscle recovery

Endurox R4

GU Brew Recovery


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Natures sports drinks

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Natural Solution

Iced Green Tea

Pre- or postrun and on easy runs less than an hour

a stellar source of catechins, antioxidants that fight heart disease and cancer

can reduce muscle damage caused by exercise, and also speed recovery

Coconut Water

Pre- or postrun or on runs of about 60 minutes

potassium?way more than sports drinks

maintain water balance and helps trigger muscles to contract and relax optimally

enough carbohydrates for an hour-long run but not enough sodium for longer efforts
Chocolate Milk

Postrun

the ideal amount of carbohydrates and protein that tired muscles need for recovery

Cherry Juice

After a hard run

decreased inflammation, oxidative stress, and muscle damage

Vegetable Juice

Postrun

three to five times the amount of sodium and 13 to 17 times the amount of potassium in sports drinks


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How synthesizers work

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clippers remarks: Lets take a look at what synthesizers are and how they are used to create sounds.
Clip Source: www.maketrance.com

There are so many synth plugins out there, including free ones. Although they all have their own unique touch to them, they tend to have a similar set of features. There are also different types of synthesizers and synthesis methods (such as additive, subtractive, fm synthesis). What I want to do here is choose a freeware subtractive synthesizer and see how it works. Most of the information will be outlined below. However, to hear examples of how the settings affect the sound, play the video on the right where I go through the controls and play notes.


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Idiots in the News

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clippers remarks: I thought the "birther movement" was a dead horse to most sane people. Well, it just goes to show you that insanity/stupidity is alive and well in good ole Georgia.
Clip Source: www.ajc.com

Rep. Deal wants Obama to prove citizenship


WASHINGTON -- Republican gubernatorial candidate and U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal says he wants the president to prove he is an American citizen.


Deal says he has "no reason to think" that President Barack Obama is not a legal U.S. citizen but enough questions have been raised that he plans to write a letter to the president asking him to produce a birth certificate showing he was born in the United States.


"I have looked at the documentation that is publicly available and it leaves many things to be desired," Deal said in an interview Friday.


Deals statement came a day after he noted in an online chat that he would join other U.S. House members in writing the president and asking that he release a copy of his birth certificate.



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King And Nonviolence

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clippers remarks: Yes its true that September 11th changed a lot of things and reminded us how vulnerable we are. It made us realize we face a dangerous and diabolically clever enemy. It strengthened our resolve and triggered important steps to prevent future attacks, actions that made us more secure as a nation. But 9/11 did not and could not change the basic ground rules: War or incitement to violence is justified only when its in response to a deliberate attack and only when its undertaken as a last resort. And even during wartime, nations must observe the highest moral standards. Its so easy to incite violence. And its so wrong.
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I think I?ve written some variation on this ever year now for several years, but I do always wish that praise and attention for Martin Luther King, Jr. would pay more attention to his teachings on violence and non-violence.

By the standards of today?s discourse, King would be considered deeply unserious. Serious people understand that if you think something is important, the serious way to go about expressing that is by voicing support for having other people go kill other people. Doubts about the ethics of such action are loathesome moral equivalence and doubts about their wisdom demonstrate naïveté.

And yet even though this Christian nonviolence is in many ways the most mainstream aspect of this radical figure who?s become a mainstream icon, it?s something that none dare take seriously today.


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NEW HOPE FOR CANCER PATIENTS

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clippers remarks: SCIENTISTS have come a step closer to destroying breast cancer cells without killing healthy cells.
Clip Source: www.express.co.uk
SCIENTISTS have come a step closer to destroying breast cancer cells without killing healthy cells.

Experts around the globe are looking at a range of ways to do this, including new drugs and special lasers.

But now a team in Israel has demonstrated that a drugs therapy already shown to work in genetic breast cancer may also kill other breast cancer cells without damaging healthy ones.

A paper in the journal Breast Cancer Research reveals the drugs can block an enzyme that all cells need to thrive.

However, a team led by Professor Cohen-Armon of Tel-Aviv University found that cancer cells seem more reliant on this enzyme, known as PARP, than other cells.

The team hope the discovery will one day work on other cancers and British research led by Dr Alan Ashworth suggests the drugs may in fact work on a far wider number of cancers.

But he stresses that tests have so far been carried out only on mice and treatment is a long way off.

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Lucky Man !!

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A Scottish game warden who bought a metal detector for a new hobby discovered a £1m hoard of Iron Age jewellery - on his first outing.


David Booth with his find /PA pics

Five days after taking delivery of the £240 metal detector and seven steps into his first treasure hunt, David Booth unearthed four 2,300-year-old torcs made of pure gold.


It has been described by experts variously as "prime Iron Age bling" and the most significant discovery of Iron Age metalwork in Scotland, reports The Times.


ir Drummond Safari Park in Stirlingshire, said: "I saw a gli

Mr Booth, 35, a warden at Blampse of one of them, then uncovered the rest of the hoard.


"They were in a wee group. Half me was saying, that does look important, but I was thinking I couldnt be that lucky on my first go.


"I took them home, gave them a wee clean up and went online. I looked at some torcs and kind of guessed this was iron age history."



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PJs for the Cure

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clippers remarks: Perfect gift for the ones you love.



Your Dreams

Brooke and her Grandmother



Giovanni



Giovanni was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes one month after his fourth birthday. He has been living with type1 diabetes for over two years. He wears an insulin pump and checks his sugar over ten times a day.

Giovanni loves anything that has to do with art, creating and building. He enjoys building with anything from cardboard boxes to clay. Giovanni may have type 1 diabetes, but type 1 diabetes doesn?t have him!


Elissa



Elissa was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in June 2007 at age 8. She has been supported by friends and family ever since. The family has participated in the JDRF Walk ever since. ?Elissa?s Team,? comprised of our family and friends, participates in the JDRF walks anually.

Now, she is 10 years old. She is very active and healthy. With all of our effort, we hope to find a cure for juvenile diabetes soon.


JDRF has been funding research to find a cure, and they?ve had some exciting advances over the years.


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Israel: Remote control occupation

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New technologies are allowing Israel to maintain control over its occupation remotely


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Noam Chomsky: US Foreign Policy is Straight Out of the Mafia

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Noam Chomsky is the wests most prominent critic of US imperialism, yet he is rarely interviewed in the mainstream media. Seumas Milne meets him

Noam Chomsky is the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar. A philosopher of language and political campaigner of towering academic reputation, who as good as invented modern linguistics, he is entertained by presidents, addresses the UN general assembly and commands a mass international audience. When he spoke in London last week, thousands of young people battled for tickets to attend his lectures, followed live on the internet across the globe, as the 80-year-old American linguist fielded questions from as far away as besieged Gaza.


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Justices Weigh Life in Prison for Youths Who Never Killed

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ? There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed. All are in the United States. And 77 of them are here in Florida.



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List of countries unilaterally invaded by America

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clippers remarks: This is a list of 70 countries unilaterally invaded by America since WWII - killing countless civilians in the process.

A Brief History of U.S. Interventions:
1945 to the Present


by William Blum


The engine of American foreign policy has been fueled not by a devotion to any kind of morality, but rather by the necessity to serve other imperatives, which can be summarized as follows:


* making the world safe for American corporations;


* enhancing the financial statements of defense contractors at home who have contributed generously to members of congress;


* preventing the rise of any society that might serve as a successful example of an alternative to the capitalist model;


* extending political and economic hegemony over as wide an area as possible, as befits a "great power."


This in the name of fighting a supposed moral crusade against what cold warriors convinced themselves, and the American people, was the existence of an evil International Communist Conspiracy, which in fact never existed, evil or not.


The United States carried out extremely serious interventions into more than 70 nations in this period.



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GOP prefers teabagging over governing

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clippers remarks: Oh, this is just too freakin funny! Priceless, really. I love the comments, too! Especially the one from "Dorn 76" - November 6, 2009 1:49 PM

"The day HCR finally comes up for a vote well just tell these idiots some teabaggers and Fox News cameras are outside making a ruckus."

Patriot Games: GOP Reps Pick Tea Party Rally Over National-Security Votes


When its a choice between strengthening the Patriot Act, or showing up for the Tea Party Patriots, whats a GOP lawmaker to do? Well give you one guess...


Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off votes on the signature anti-terror legislation of the post 9/11 era to attend Michele Bachmanns Tea Party rally against health-care reform.


But had a few more of their own showed up to vote, instead of playing to the Tea Party crowd, perhaps they would have been able to fix some of what they didnt like about it.

The day HCR finally comes up for a vote well just tell these idiots some teabaggers and Fox News cameras are outside making a ruckus.



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Obama uses the word teabagger to describe opposition

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Both Mr. Obama and the House leaders showcased Democrats? newest colleague, Representative Bill Owens, who last Tuesday won a special election in an upstate New York district that Republicans had held since 1872. In the campaign, Mr. Owens gave unabashed support to the pending House health care bill, despite the opposition of national conservative groups, including the new Tea Party Patriots, who backed Mr. Owens? conservative rival.


Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, ?Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit? Democratic voters ?and it will encourage the extremists.?



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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts.

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Seek patience
and passion
in equal amounts.
 
Patience alone
will not build the temple.
 
Passion alone
will destroy its walls.
 
~ Maya Angelou ~
 
 
(Life Mosaic)

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Beatles - Dig a pony (on the roof)

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clippers remarks: Brilliant!
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Beatles - Dig a pony (on the roof)


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20 tips for a great Thanksgiving

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#1 - Thanksgiving planner: Your step-by-step guide





#2 - How to save money at the supermarket





#3 - A truly old-fashioned Thanksgiving





#4 - Video: Corny salmon cakes





#5 - Make-ahead recipe: Rice and fruit salad





#6 - A Thanksgiving prankster: Gobble-gobble





#7 - Thanksgiving disasters, an iVillage top 10




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#8 - Video: Apple blueberry walnut crisp





#9 - Make-ahead recipe: Roasted potato wedges





#10 - A one-of-a-kind approach to Thanksgiving





#12 - Video: Raising "good" cholesterol





#13 - Make-ahead recipe: Cranberry applesauce





#14 - Kitchen: Skimming 101




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#15 - Easy ways to make a difference this Thanksgiving





#16 - 8 tips for a tasty, sustainable Thanksgiving





#17 - Make-ahead recipe: Nutty broccoli





#18 - A guide to surviving Thanksgiving sports





#19 - Wine buyers guide





#20 - Top tips for a guilt-free Thanksgiving






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Obama admits he is a Muslim

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Obama Admits He Is A Muslim


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Obama admits that he is a Muslim. Obama bowing before a Muslim king. Obama talking about his Muslim family. Obama quoting from the Koran. Obama defending Islam. Obama visiting a Mosque. And many m...


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European Union court bans crucifixes in Italian classrooms

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04th November 2009

Crucifixes have been banned in Italian schools by a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights. 


The decision has enraged politicians, with Italys foreign minister Franco Frattini saying: This is a death blow for a Europe of values and rights. 


Europes roots lie in its Christian identity. At a time when were trying to bring religions closer, the Christian religion gets whacked. 


The case was brought by a Finnish woman, Soile Lautsi, who is married to an Italian. 


Both are atheists.

The European courts ruling, which will be enforced in three months, said crucifixes could disturb children who were not Christians.

And it ordered the Italian government to pay 5000 Euro moral damages to Lautsi.


Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini introduced legislation in 1924 ordering all classrooms to display crucifixes. Despite several attempts to have the law overturned in recent years it has stood.


secular, state-run schools must observe confessional neutrality


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Ft Hood gunman told colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut

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Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at Americas Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.


Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army doctor named as a suspect in the shooting death of 13 people and the wounding of 31 others at Fort Hood, Texas

He also told colleagues at Americas top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire. The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July.


Colleagues had expected a discussion on a medical issue but were instead given an extremist interpretation of the Koran, which Hasan appeared to believe.


It was the latest in a series of "red flags" about his state of mind that have emerged since the massacre at Fort Hood, Americas largest military installation, on Thursday.



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Mind Control With Sound and Light

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researchers are developing

advanced brain scans and wireless neuro-implants that will soon enable paralyzed people to remotely operate computers with their minds, the gap in the human-machine interface is closing.

Weve posted many times about zapping regions of the brain with magnetic pulses, called transcranial magnetic stimulation, to treat depression, boost creativity, or even improve reaction time. And brain "pacemakers" are increasingly common treatments for epilepsy, Parkinsons, and even depression. Whats next? Mind control through sound and light.

researchers are using ultrasound pulses to stimulate activity deep inside the brain from the outside. The sound waves cause brain cells to spew certain chemical neurotransmitters, ultimately resulting in physical movements or other effects.

other researchers are exploring how light,

can "probe" the brain

to learn about neuronal function.


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Republicans Face Backlash, Top Democrats Warns

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Democrats Face Electoral Backlash After Health Care Vote, Top Republican Warns



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First Ever Pop-Chart

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On November 8 1952, The first ever UK pop chart was published by the New Musical Express after staff asked 53 record shops to divulge their sales returns. ?Here In My Heart? by Al Martino was the first No.1. The song stayed at No.1 for nine weeks.

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Dana Milbank Is, as Mark Levin Describes Him, "A Punk, a Liar and a Coward"

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clippers remarks: Constitutional attorney, bestselling author and hit radio show host Mark Levin certainly doesnt mince words. Alerted to Milbanks latest hit piece in The Washington Post, Levin called Milbank out as a propagandist of the first order.

The reason: out of literally tens of thousands of patriotic signs and shirts at Thursdays Capitol Hill protest, Milbank picked out a handful as supposedly representative of a crowd he described as "hateful and gruesome."

An outraged Levin called Milbank a "punk, a liar and a coward" while challenging him to a debate on his show.

Heres a Nazi reference that Milbank might appreciate: I think of him as the Josef Goebbels of his age. He writes patent propaganda in service of the State. And I can prove it.

Bubba visited DC for the rally and wandered through the crowd for hours taking scores of photos. I created a montage -- click to zoom if youd like read the dozens of visible messages -- from his collection.
In the front of the protest, a sign showed President Obama in white coat, his face painted to look like the Joker. The sign, visible to the lawmakers as they looked into the cameras, carried a plea to "Stop Obamunism." A few steps farther was the guy holding a sign announcing "Obama takes his orders from the Rothchilds" [sic], accusing Obama of being part of a Jewish plot to introduce the antichrist.

But the best of Bachmanns recruits were a few rows into the crowd, holding aloft a pair of 5-by-8-foot banners proclaiming "National Socialist Healthcare, Dachau, Germany, 1945." Both banners showed close-up photographs of Holocaust victims, many of them children....

"Who knew a casual comment on TV could generate this?" Rep. Jeb Hensarling (Tex.) exulted as he stood in front of the Dachau banner.

Now, objecting to the health-care bill is one thing. But doesnt it send the wrong message for House Republicans to hold an event on the Capitol grounds full of hateful and gruesome words






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Utterly Beautiful Video of Elephant Birth

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The accompanying text via the email that accompanied the link;
Last month, staff at the Elephant Safari Park in Taro, Bali , filmed one of its elephants giving birth
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Obama cant be bothered by Islamic terrorism

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A Muslim fanatic, known to the FBI as a fan of suicide bombers and to colleagues as an opponent of our government, coolly buys weapons, heads to a military facilityhe knows will be packed with unsuspecting soldiers, waits for the crowd to thicken, then shouts, ?Allah is great!? and guns down 51 patriots, calmly reloading among the dead and dying.


But don?t rush to judgment.


Imagine if, instead of Fort Hood, the massacre had gone down at a mosque in Detroit ? carried out by a maddened Christian or Jew. Obama would?ve been aboard Air Force One before the pilots had time to file a flight plan and he would?ve been on site before the gun smoke cleared, hugging and boo-hooing and dispensing stirring rhetoric for the evening news.


An Army specialist and his daughter pray together at the entrance to Ft. Hood after Thursdays attacks.


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How We Drive: the blog of Tom Vanderbilts book Traffic

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Traffic

How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt?s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.




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Martian landscapes

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Since 2006, NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel. Collected here is a group of images from HiRISE over the past few years, in either false color or grayscale, showing intricate details of landscapes both familiar and alien, from the surface of our neighboring planet, Mars. I invite you to take your time looking through these, imagining the settings - very cold, dry and distant, yet real. (35 photos total)








































































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Holy Androgony! Gender Illusion: Contrast = Attractiveness

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Holy Androgony! Gender Illusion: Contrast = Attractiveness

illusion of sex increased facial contrast

What gender is the face on the left? How about the one on the right? Most people would say that the picture on the left shows a woman and the picture on the right shows a man. Actually, both pictures show the same androgynous face, but with differing levels of contrast. Richard Russell, assistant professor of psychology at Gettysburg College, published a study in the scholarly journal Perception about the effects of contrast of human faces on the perception of gender. He found that faces with more contrast are seen as more feminine, while faces with less contrast are seen as more masculine.


Typically, female faces feature lighter skin than male faces, regardless of gender. However, Russell found that female lips and eyes are not correspondingly lighter, giving female faces a much higher contrast than those of males. His findings serve to illustrate why cosmetics work to make women?s faces appear more feminine


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A quiet voice for gay marriage

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clippers remarks: Many of these former spouses -- from those who still feel raw resentment toward their exes to those who have reached a mutual understanding -- see the legalization of same-sex marriage as a step toward protecting not only homosexuals but also heterosexuals. If homosexuality was more accepted, they say, they might have been spared doomed marriages followed by years of self-doubt.

"Its like you hit a brick wall when they come out," Brooks said. "You think everything is fine and then, boom!"

Carolyn Sega Lowengart calls it "retroactive humiliation." Its that embarrassment that washes over her when she looks back at photographs or is struck by a memory and wonders what, if anything, from that time was real. Did he ever love her?

If anyone could have talked himself out of being gay, Kimberly Brooks said, it was her husband.


Kimberly Brooks, below, holds her wedding photo, above, with then-husband Robert Webb. The marriage ended when he became involved with a man.

He wanted to be straight; she wanted him to be straight. She once followed his gaze across the beach to another man but quickly dismissed the thought. No, he couldnt be. Then he started spending more time with one particular friend, and an unease pushed Brooks to ask the question that ultimately confirmed her fear

"He said, I dont know. And in that moment, I knew," said Brooks, who is a therapist in Falls Church. "That day, the marriage was over."


As the debate over legalizing same-sex marriage in the District grows louder and more polarized, there are people whose support for the proposal is personal but not often talked about. They are federal workers and professionals, men and women who share little except that their former spouses tried to live as heterosexuals but at some point realized they could not.



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Unique Birthday Cake Ideas

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Animal Cakes

Mover Cakes

Food Cakes

FairyTale Cakes

Fun and Games Cakes

Insect Cakes



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DIY Medicine Cabinet: Grandma?s Remedies

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DIY Medicine Cabinet: Grandma?s Remedies


Is the economy beating you up? It?s time to get creative. Next time you have an ache or pain, forget about a costly trip to the drugstore and test drive some of your grandmother?s remedies instead. It?ll save money and be gentler on your body and the environment. Recessionistas (and Gents), welcome to the DIY medicine cabinet.

Sore Throat
Sore, scratchy throats are usually a sign of a cold or flu coming on, so you don?t want to ignore this symptom, but you can relieve the pain by gargling with warm salt water a few times a day and then drinking a soothing honey-lemon tea.

Stop Bleeding

You?d think it would burn, but a sprinkle of cayenne pepper on a cut will quickly stop the bleeding and actually relieve the pain.
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Nausea
The classic cure for nausea or carsickness is ginger tea or candied ginger.

Headache and Migraine
Try rubbing peppermint or lavender oil on your temples and the base of your neck; sniffing these oils may also help.


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Unemployment hits 10.2%

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Fort Hood Shooting: CCTV Shows Hasan Before Killings

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clippers remarks: CCTV footage of US soldier hours before shooting rampage shopping at convenience store, wearing what appear to be traditional Muslim robes and a prayer cap.

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US army officer Major Nidal Malik Hasan was captured on CCTV in the hours before the killing, wearing what appear to be traditional Muslim robes and a prayer cap.


Hasan has been identified as responsible for the killing of 13 people and wounding of 30 more in the mass shooting at the Fort Hood base.

Before the killings, the military psychiatrist was caught on camera shopping at a convenience store at the base, in CCTV footage unearthed by US broadcaster CNN.


After it was filmed, Hasan, armed with two handguns, walked into a training centre and opened fire on fellow soldiers who were having last-minute medical check-ups before being deployed to Afghanistan. Thirteen were killed and 30 injured.









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Appendix: Not so useless?

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Duke University Medical Center researchers believe they have discovered why the appendix exists and what purpose it serves in modern humans.

They think it is used to reboot the digestive system and produce the bacteria sometimes eliminated by disease. How is it that people have them removed and live normal lives afterward?

In modern times, it is relatively unimportant. In crowded areas people can easily replace lost bacteria from contact with others but in ancient times, when isolation was more common or when diseases such as cholera or amoebic dysentery struck and eliminated the stomachs good bacteria, the appendix was likely how the human body regenerated good bacteria.

In that sense, modern hygiene makes it more likely that the under-utilized appendix will need to be removed.


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Oscar the Grouch Sings The Internationale

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How did we lose PBS? The network that once exiled gay-friendly bunnies, fired politically-suspect childrens show hosts, and provided endless hours of aircraft carrier war porn on its science show, Nova, is now allowing muppets to deride the most ideologically correct news network in the world.

Yes, its come to that. Oscar the Grouch now dates a puppet who openly mocks Fox News. No wonder some of Americas finest patriots are soiling their cod pieces. Its treason. Worse yet, its treason committed by a ball of yarn who cavorts with someone who belongs to Foxs prime demographic: an angry old man who treasures garbage and cant make a move until someone shoves a hand up his ass. If we lose Oscar the Grouch, we lose America. Itll be NY-23 all over again.

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Friends of the Moon Groups Say No to Future Bombs/Crashes

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When a NASA spacecraft rammed into the moon in October, it tossed up a hard-to-see plume of lunar material.


But the event also stirred an observable cloud of public anxiety and protests in some quarters about "bombing" the moon, a backlash that may hint at a rising "Friends of the Moon" movement.


In the Huffington Post, screenwriter Amy Ephron called it "NASAs own version of shock and awe" and put in motion a "Help Save the Moon" Twitter Page in the hope that readers "can convince NASA not to try any further experiments of this kind," she wrote.


"Well, I for one, dont like explosions. Call me a pacifist, call me cautious, call me an environmentalist, or call me something worse, I dont really care," Ephron explained.


PC World Blogger, Jeff Bertolucci, came up with his own "possible, covert goals" of why NASA bombed the Moon. His self-admitted lighthearted look included:


         To destroy secret alien moon bases on the far side


         Hate high tides? So does NASA



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Hormones are the Switch For the Lantern Shark

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That is the link to the video that wouldnt clip. The article is fascinating...
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The safe answer to how a lantern shark turns its luminescence on and off is: ?Any way it wants.? Now researchers have looked into the belly of the beast and found that three hormones act as on-off switches for these glow-in-the-dark sharks. It is the first discovery of hormones controlling bioluminescence in animals, the scientists report in the November 15 Journal of Experimental Biology.


In all animals investigated up to this point, luminescence is triggered by nerve cells. Finding a parallel pathway to bioluminescence ? one that?s controlled by hormones, not nerves ? strongly supports the notion that light-emitting powers have evolved multiple times in animals, comments marine scientist Jim Gelsleichter of the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, who was not involved in the research.


The light-emitting cells in some sharks aren?t connected to prominent nerve cells, and the slow onset of their glow hinted that something other than nerves were involved.


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Another Republican says health care reform will destroy America. Rep. Broun, that is.

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clippers remarks: Right -- if a liberal like Grayson calls out Republicans (who have no health care plan), they get their freak on. But I guess they have already been immunized to conservative insanity.

Oh, and we have Rep. Gohmert saying this: Dems Would Allow Seniors To "Die Off More Quickly"

This is standard conservative behavior that never gets mentioned by the media. It only comes up when a liberal is attacked and then they spend 24-48 hours to defend themselves and are forced to use these outrageous statement made by Republicans. And of course they have no traction, because of the defensive position the media puts liberals in.
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And here we have another nut job Republican who claims health care reform will destroy America. Wheres the outrage by the Villagers over these statements?
Media Matters:


Its an impressive feat, but there may not be a Republican member of Congress who has been more openly scornful of President Obamas plans for health care reform than Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA).


In July, Broun declared that the public insurance option "is gonna kill people." Later in the month, he argued that "ObamaCare" would "give every single one of those illegal aliens health insurance." At a town hall meeting in September, Broun literally walked away from a constituent who couldnt get health coverage after telling him, "If you have a suggestion, send it to me." And, just a few weeks ago, he introduced "alternative" legislation that would eliminate Medicare altogether.


Yesterday, Broun escalated his attacks on the Democratic reform bill, saying that its passage "destroy America as we know it today."

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5 Tips for Photographing Children

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1. LET THE KIDS HAVE FUN


Children are most expressive when they are being themselves.

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2. FAMILIAR ENVIRONMENT


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3. PLAY THE EXPRESSIONS GAME


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4. PARENTS OR NO PARENTS


Some kids feel shy with other people watching them including their parents. Other kids love having an audience.

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5. KEEP IT RELAXED


Family and especially children portraits are nothing like other high stress photographic assignments like wedding or fashion shoots. Keep it easy, relaxed and conversational. Sell your personality before anything else and the bonds you make will last as long as the pictures.


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Post-Communist Postcards

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Nicolae Ceausescus "Palace of the People," now the Romanian parliament building, Bucharest

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Bucharest, Romania, in the rain

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Bucharest, Romania

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Old City, Bucharest, Romania

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Old City, Bucharest, Romania

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Transylvania, Romania

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Medieval clock tower, Sighisoara, Romania ? birthplace of Vlad the Impaler

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Brashov, Romania

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Kiev, Ukraine

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Orthodox Church, Kiev, Ukraine

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Crimea, Ukraine

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Yalta on the Black Sea, Crimea, Ukraine
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A statue of Lenin angrily stares at a McDonalds across the square in Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine

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The 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall [70 photos]

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Monday, November 9th, 2009 will mark the 20th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall came down. Built with barbed wire and concrete in August of 1961 by the Communist East, The Berlin Wall, stretching for about 30 miles, was a Cold War symbol which separated East and West Berlin, preventing people from leaving East Germany. According to the ?August 13 Association? which specialises in the history of the Berlin Wall, at least 938 people ? 255 in Berlin alone ? died, shot by East German border guards, attempting to flee to West Berlin or West Germany. It stood for 28 years as a division between the Soviets and the Allies. The wall was torn down after Communism collapsed in 1989. During the summer of 1989, tens of thousands of East Germans fled the communist regime. The photos below show the initial building of the Wall in 1961, the fall of the Wall in 1989 and how the sections of the Wall look today.
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Tehran Nov 4th

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MODELING AND ALL THAT CAME AFTER.

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Modeling and All That Came After



UNFAZED Léon Bing, as she was in the 60s, shot by Dennis Hopper.




MEMOIRIST Léon Bing, in her Pasadena apartment, where an Ed Ruscha painting hangs on the wall.


I FIRST met Léon Bing in Pasadena, in 1998, while working on an article about Rudi Gernreich, the California revolutionary who had shocked the world with his topless bathing suit. Ms. Bing, a model in the 1960s, had not worn the famous suit; that distinction belonged to Peggy Moffitt, who also saw herself as the keeper of Gernreich?s legacy.


Ms. Bing, on the other hand, had moved on, writing a widely admired book, ?Do or Die,? in 1991, about gang life in South Central Los Angeles and two other books that dealt with failed public trust toward children.


So we arranged to meet at a restaurant in Pasadena, where she lives in a small apartment. Then nearly 60, she was still striking, exotically so, with cheekbones that looked like sharp objects wedged in a black bob.


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SHOULD THE RICH PAY FOR THE UNINSURED?

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Should the Rich Pay for the Uninsured?


Obama at Childrens Hospital

Updated, July 20, 7 p.m. | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today that she would like to scale back a proposed income surtax on the highest wage-earners so that it applies only to individuals earning more than $500,000 and couples earning more than $1 million.


President Obama is stepping up his push for health care reform, even as Republicans and some Democrats are urging a delay on any vote in Congress. A central issue now is how to pay for expanded coverage. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the House version of reform could add $239 billion to the deficit over the next decade.


One way to pay for reform, as proposed by the House Democrats, is to make the wealthiest Americans pay a surtax , ranging from 1 percent to 5.4 percent of income. Is it time for President Obama to consider raising taxes on some to pay for health care expansion? Or is this politically untenable during a recession?



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RELAX ,DEMOCRATS

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clippers remarks: WINNING.
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Relax, Democrats




TO hear Republicans tell it, Tuesday?s elections, in which their candidates captured the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, were a repudiation of President Obama and indicated a voter shift toward their party. They should calm themselves down. The results don?t show this and, in fact, suggest some rather daunting challenges for the Republicans.


Start with the predictive value of the Virginia and New Jersey victories: there is none. Sometimes the party that wins both those governorships gains seats in the next Congressional election; sometimes that party loses seats. Far more consequential is the historical pattern that the new president?s party tends to lose seats in the first midterm election. Once that is taken into account, as the political scientist Alan Abramowitz of Emory University has shown, victories in Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races tell you nothing about who will gain seats in 2010 or how large that gain will be.


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Republicans Need to Dump the Neoconservatives

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clippers remarks: The republicans need a "tea party" within their own camp! The Bush and present GOP "conservatives" are pushing big government Statism as much as Democrats, with only a different slant. Wars for democracy are a key element of both parties now.

There is an insidious philosophy underlying this acceptance of the "natural" growth of statism. Neoconservative columnist David Brooks wrote ... we need "a vigorous One Nation Conservatism ... by making the nation great, individuals are able to join their narrow concerns to a larger national project."


Actually, it was originally the Democrats that used to believe in curtailing the powers of the Federal government. (This was after the Civil War where they were called Dixie-crats).

See this related Clipmark: Danger--America Becoming Statist, First Bush Now Obama
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The GOP should dump the neocons


Limited-government conservatives have been undermined by big-government neoconservatives.


The founders envisioned a federal government constitutionally limited to defending our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. For that to happen, we must have at least one political party that strongly advocates limiting the power of government. For much of the 19th century, that party was the Democrats. For the early part of the 20th century and from the early 1960s through 1988, that party was the Republicans.

Today, it is difficult to find noninterventionists in either party.

It is important to realize that neocons are not just nation-building, America-first advocates. They like big government across the board.

As for the GOP, it has outwardly abandoned the limited-government principles of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.

What happened to the Republicans? Well, the two Bush presidencies didnt help.


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The Antimatter of Lightening

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WASHINGTON, D.C. ? Designed to scan the heavens thousands to billions of light-years beyond the solar system, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has now recorded some more down-to-Earth signals. During its first 14 months of operation, the flying observatory has detected 17 gamma-ray flashes associated with terrestrial lightning storms.


The flashes occurred just before, during and immediately after lightning strikes, as tracked by the World Wide Lightning Location Network.

During two recent lightning storms, Fermi recorded gamma-ray emissions of a particular energy that could only have been produced by the decay of energetic positrons, the antimatter equivalent of electrons.

It?s a surprise to have found the signature of positrons during a lightning storm, Briggs said.


The unusual positron signature seen by Fermi suggests that the normal orientation for an electric field associated with a lightning storm somehow reversedRead more at www.wired.com


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CBO Confirms GOP Plan Will Lower Health Care Premiums, Lower Deficit Without Tax Hikes

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House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed in a letter tonight that the Republican health care plan will lower health care premiums by up to 10 percent and reduce the deficit by $68 billion over 10 years without imposing tax increases on families and small businesses:

?When it comes to reforming health care, controlling skyrocketing costs is the American peoples? top priority. Now CBO has confirmed that the Republican plan will lower health care costs for American families, and that?s good news for everyone struggling in today?s economy. The choice now could not be clearer: Speaker Pelosi?s plan raises costs. Our plan lowers them.



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Lawmakers seek ban on laptops in airliner cockpits

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clippers remarks: This is the mentality of legislators. They approach this isolated situation as if it were a quickly escalating ?problem? that must be addressed immediately instead of leaving it to the airline to tighten their own rules of conduct for pilots. Legislators love to jump on stuff like this because it has the appearance, to us lowly tax payers, that they are coming to our rescue to protet us from the evil use of laptops in cockpits. And it makes them feel good about themselves that they are doing something useful.

More legislation! More rules! More laws! More oversight! Yeah, that will make us all be more responsible.

Lawmakers are moving to ban the use of computer laptops and other personal electronic devices in airline cockpits to prevent another incident like the Northwest Airlines plane that overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles.

Sen. Byron Dorgan, chairman of the aviation subcommittee, said in an interview that his staff is working on a bill that he expects to introduce in about a week

He said he was surprised to learn after the Oct. 21 incident that the Federal Aviation Administration doesnt specifically prohibit pilots from using laptops, DVD players, MP3 players and other devices during flight except below 10,000 feet while the plane is taking off or landing.


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Obsidian Portal

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What is ObsidianPortal?


Obsidian Portal allows you to create Dungeons and Dragons campaign websites and other tabletop role-playing games. Rather than trying to automate the playing of the game, Obsidian Portal provides tools to help facilitate the storytelling. Every campaign gets a shared blog/wiki to showcase their story, as well as integrated tools to help track NPCs, locations, treasure, and all the other minutae that makes up an RPG. Check out this video for more details.

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Our Featured Campaign for the month of November is the Pursuit of Destiny, DMed by cwgabe. Believe it or not, cwgabe is in fact the same Gabe who draws Penny Arcade. Yes that Gabe. Web comics MVP, Gabe. I know, I was totally surprised too! Well not totally surprised. I had to track him down at the new Penny Arcade office and ask him and Tycho if I could do it, but they?re cool and they said yes. Also they?re coming to my birthday party. Robert Khoo too. True story.



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Glenn Beck Compares Derailing Health Care To Preparing For 9/11

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clippers remarks: HERE IS A TRANSCRIPT OF BECK:

Ten years ago, I could have shouted every single day about Osama bin Laden and his wacky crazy threats to kill Americans in New York and nobody would have been willing to stand in line two hours while some security officer made grandma take her shoes off. No one would have done it. But dont you see. While the government is still not willing to do these things, today America is different. America has changed. Washington, were not going to let you get away with it anymore. Look, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Conservatives are awake. 9/12ers are willing to do the hard things. We know what this means! Were taking time out of our busy lives, taking time away from their families, theyre attending town hall meetings. Do you think they want to do that? They are calling their representatives. How many times do we have to be yelled at by your people in Washington? They are reading 2,000-page healthcare bills on the weekend. The 9
Glenn Beck

The latest lunatic fringe talking point equates Democratic-led efforts at health care reform with the 9/11 terrorist attacks on American soil.


During his Monday broadcast, Fox News host Glenn Beck applauded the tea-party protesters and grassroots organizers who are "taking time out of our busy lives" to work against the enactment of health care reform.


Beck said the 9/12ers, as they are also referred to, "are reading 2,000-page healthcare bills on the weekend. [They] are willing to stand in line and take our shoes off before the plane actually hits the tower."


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Perhaps Beck was concerned that he was losing the battle of hyperbole to another conservative firebrand. Earlier in the day, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) raised the specter of 9/11 herself, warning from the floor of the House of Representatives that America has more to fear from health care than from terrorism.


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The Electric Universe

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clippers remarks: NASAs Interstellar Boundary Explorer adds more evidence that our Sun, like all stars and the universe itself is electric in nature.
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NASAs IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) spacecraft has made the first all-sky maps of the boundary between the Sun?s environment (the heliosphere), and interstellar space.

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The EU model is based on a hierarchy of repeated patterns of plasma behavior, from the size of a galaxy down to a few centimeters in the laboratory. Therefore it is subject to experimental confirmation, unlike most astrophysical theory today.

IBEXs recent results that have taken researchers by surprise have given yet more strength to the EU model, a model that confidently predicts that the shape of the Sun?s galactic plasma environment is the hourglass, Z-pinch shape of planetary nebulae and supernovae, aligned with the local interstellar magnetic field. The beautiful symmetrical patterns that arise in plasma discharges from very simple principles renders all modeling that ignores the electrical nature of matter and the universe worthless.


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Afghanistan policy may lead to civil war unless Afghans brought to the table

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clippers remarks: We have a military policy designed for conquering nations, but Afghanistans problems are civilian ones that will only be solved by getting the Afghan people into the process.
Washingtons current policy derives from a military agenda and not a civilian one. In fact it may now be impossible for Washington to return to a government orchestrated strategy of nation-building anywhere after thirty years of privatized foreign policy and military buildup that favored profit driven development schemes at the expense of civil society

the administration has pushed Hamid Karzai for the run-off election in the belief that it will legitimize his rule in order that General McChrystal can get his troops to go on fighting. What this ignores is that a corrupt, incompetent government stacked with Tajik warlords is abhorrent to everyone in Afghanistan - Pashtun and Tajik alike

Washingtons current policy may lead to outright civil war

it will have little success until the Afghan people and the population of Pakistans Western territories are brought politically into the decision making

President Obama still has the credibility to do that, but his window of opportunity is closing


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Timeline shows Bush, McCain warning Dems of financial and housing crisis; meltdown

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clippers remarks: Lest we forget
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Timeline shows Bush, McCain warning Dems of financial and housing crisis; meltdown


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Truth-speaker upsets Larry Kings circus of silly

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This guy is some kinda beautiful.
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CNN, Larry King (barely a)live. Shoshanna Johnson (former POW), Dr Phil, and some JAG officer that I would pronounce my gayness for if I knew who he was.


Paraphrasing here, but the JAG said: As I sit here listening to all this psycho-babble crap, with you guys talking about PTSD nonstop, how come not once have you guys hit on this guys last name being ?Hasan? and discuss Islamofacism.


Phil and Shoshanna lose their minds, accuse him of racism, general mayhem, etc.


Best TV moment I ever witnessed.



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Vast water reservoir beneath eastern Asia

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Scientists probing the Earths interior have found a large reservoir of water equal to the volume of the Arctic Ocean beneath eastern Asia. The left figure is a slice through the Earth, taken from the figure on the right, showing the attenuation anomalies within the mantle at a depth of roughly 620 miles. In both images, red shows unusually soft and weak rock believed to be saturated with water, and the blue shows unusually stiff rock (yellow and white show near-average values). Credit: Eric Ch

Scientists probing the Earths interior have found a large reservoir of water equal to the volume of the Arctic Ocean beneath eastern Asia. The left figure is a slice through the Earth, taken from the figure on the right, showing the attenuation anomalies within the mantle at a depth of roughly 620 miles. In both images, red shows unusually soft and weak rock believed to be saturated with water, and the blue shows unusually stiff rock (yellow and white show near-average values)
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Water covers 70 percent of Earth?s surface and one of its many functions is to act like a lubricant for the movement of continental plates.


?Look at our sister planet, Venus,? Wysession said. ?It is very hot and dry inside Venus, and Venus has no plate tectonics. All the water probably boiled off, and without water, there are no plates. The system is locked up, like a rusty Tin Man with no oil.?



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Spectacular views of the chaotic terrain on Mars

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They cover 225 x 95 km or 21.375 sq km, an area roughly half the size of the Netherlands.

The upper portion of the image swath shows the eastern margin of Kasei Valles and the western margin of the Lunae Planum plateau and the adjoining Sacra Fossae. Kasei Valles is one of the largest outflow channels on Mars, spanning 3000 km, from the Chryse Planitia basin in the north to Echus Chasma to the south.


Sacra Fossae is a fault system that extends for more than 1000 km. It is several hundred metres deep

The images show an old 35 km-diameter impact in the north. The crater?s south-western rim is eroded strongly. The erosion is caused mostly by flowing water. The source of the water was located in Echus Chasma, which lies roughly 850 km to the southwest.


The crater floor and the northwestern part of the imaged region are remarkably flat and have been formed by sediments and basaltic lava flows originating from the Tharsis volcanic region.

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contradictlexia

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They are arguing that any indications that Hasan was motivated by his religion should be treated as nothing more than the crutch of a madman, and that no broader conclusion can be drawn from that.


They are SIMULTANEOUSLY arguing that any indications that Hasan was motivated by stress from being deployed should be treated as indicative of a broad trend and that deployments are abusive to all soldiers everywhere.


Hmm. It?s like they have contradictlexia.



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How About We Bomb Mecca?

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clippers remarks: The mainstream media is falling all over itself today in an attempt to somehow paint this domestic Islamic terrorist as the victim rather than the perpetrator.
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How many more innocents must be killed by islamofascists before that glorified cult is recognized for what it is? Adherents of the world?s most violent and intolerant religion flew terrified passengers into the World Trade Center?s towers screaming the same line Hassan yelled out as the coward machine-gunned down his fellow soldiers. Nearly every day we read about some innocent young girl being killed by her own relatives because she ?dishonored? her family by doing something non-Islamic. I have come to believe that a devout Muslim is incapable of anything close to real love. A loving father would die to save his daughter?s life, not the honor of a phony religion. In reality they more closely resemble trained beasts rather than people. People simply do not act in that fashion on a regular basis. People have aberrations and in some cases will act stupidly or violently, but unless there is a real problem with their mental/emotional makeup they do not act as an Islamist does.



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Pregnant Soldier Shot Dead By Fort Hood Killer Screaming ?Allahu Akbar? ..Update: Hasan Sat on Obama

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Undersea Eruption in Stereo

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