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The Twilight Zone: At the Threshold of the Fifth Dimension
Post Date: 2011-10-10 09:56:30 by Eric Stratton
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The Twilight Zone: At the Threshold of the Fifth DimensionBy John W. Whitehead 9/29/2011 "I am not a meek conformist but a tired nonconformist."—Rod SerlingOn Friday, October 2, 1959, The Twilight Zone premiered on national television. Even though it was never a top 25 show, The Twilight Zone was an oasis in television wasteland that captured a generation. However, it almost didn't happen. Its subject matter troubled television executives, and the fact that the episodes often left viewers hanging went against formula.I was barely 13 when I saw the pilot episode, "Where Is Everybody?" It left me speechless and compelled me to watch the following 156 episodes ...
Wal-Mart stores closed and fined over falsely labeled pork in SW China
Post Date: 2011-10-10 06:12:38 by Tatarewicz
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CHONGQING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- The government of Chongqing municipality has shut down ten Wal-Mart stores that have been accused of fraudulently selling ordinary pork as organic pork, according to the local administration of industry and commerce on Sunday. The ten Wal-Mart stores and two other stores that were acquired by Wal-Mart are accused of selling 63,547 kilograms of falsely labeled pork over the past two years, which generated approximately 730,000 yuan (114,500.82 U.S. dollars) of illegal income, said Huang Bo, director of the Chongqing Administration of Industry and Commerce. The city has fined the stores 2.69 million yuan, Huang said, adding that Wal-Mart has been punished by ...
Brother can you spare a dime?
Post Date: 2011-10-09 14:19:31 by Southern Style
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National Do Not Call Registry
Post Date: 2011-10-09 10:51:15 by Lod
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1.888.382.1222 will quickly register your number.
Poster Comment:Way too easy. We'll see how it goes.
Car-free Sunday for smog-struck Milan
Post Date: 2011-10-09 06:17:41 by Tatarewicz
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The northern Italian city of Milan is banning all traffic from its streets for 10 hours on Sunday in an attempt to reduce smog. The measure, first imposed on a trial basis in 2007, is triggered whenever pollution exceeds the statutory limit for 12 consecutive days. Satellite imagery shows Milan to be one of the most polluted cities in Europe. An estimated 120,000 vehicles will be affected by the move, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper. The most polluting vehicles have been banned from driving through the city centre since Thursday. But on Sunday, there will be no traffic at all permitted between 0800 and 1800 local time (07:00-17:00 GMT). The ban is imposed when ...
Stinky tofu - a delicacy for some
Post Date: 2011-10-09 04:35:35 by Tatarewicz
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It's the deep-fried taste, it's the crispy crunch, and it's the stench. It's stinky tofu, the iconic "bizarre food" that you can never forget once you've tried it, or even had a whiff of it. Stinky tofu is made by soaking fresh tofu in a brine of salt and fermented vegetables. It sounds vile, but once you get past the stench, it is actually a healthy snack. Years ago in Hong Kong, stinky tofu was sold by hawkers with their little wooden carts outside subway stations. They would deep-fry the squares of tofu in bubbling oil and serve it piping hot. However, protests from people with sensitive noses, who found the wafting odor offensive, has made it a lot harder ...
Owners baffled by theft of 50-foot-long Pa. bridge
Post Date: 2011-10-09 02:55:33 by farmfriend
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Owners baffled by theft of 50-foot-long Pa. bridge NEW CASTLE, Pa. — A 50-foot-long bridge in western Pennsylvania has been stolen, and its owners say they're baffled by the crime and have no idea who took it. New Castle Development spokesman Gary Bruce said Friday that he "couldn't believe it when they told me it was gone." A state police report says the 20-foot-wide span in North Beaver Township went missing between Sept. 27 and Wednesday. The bridge was made out of corrugated steel and valued at about $100,000. Thieves used a blowtorch to cut it apart, presumably to sell it for scrap metal. The bridge was used occasionally as a back entrance to the company ...
Information Warfare on CoastToCoastAm Sunday night
Post Date: 2011-10-09 02:29:54 by Tatarewicz
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Information Warfare Date: 10-09-11 Host: John B. Wells Guests: Charles R. Smith Joining guest host John B. Wells (email), specialist in cyber warfare and information security, Charles R. Smith will discuss the current state of information warfare including how unmanned aircraft can penetrate information systems and personal computers and download information and insert viruses. Website(s): softwar.net
Putin prepares for Armageddon - Sorcha Faal
Post Date: 2011-10-09 00:26:16 by Tatarewicz
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A grim Federal Security Services (FSB) report on Prime Minister Putin’s plan to meet China’s leader Hu Jintao in Beijing next week warns that both Russian and Chinese military forces are being placed on their ‘highest alert’ in anticipation of a massive land invasion believed being planned by the United States of both the Middle East and Central Asia. The plans for this “Total Global War” the Americans are preparing to launch were first revealed to China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) by the former Blackwater mercenary Bryan Underwood who is currently being held by US authorities for spying and which we reported on in our 4 October report titled ...
Guy On A Buffalo
Post Date: 2011-10-08 15:34:08 by X-15
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Nine things you didn’t know about the life of Steve Jobs
Post Date: 2011-10-08 04:36:45 by Tatarewicz
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For all of his years in the spotlight at the helm of Apple, Steve Jobs in many ways remains an inscrutable figure — even in his death. Fiercely private, Jobs concealed most specifics about his personal life, from his curious family life to the details of his battle with pancreatic cancer — a disease that ultimately claimed him on Wednesday, at the age of 56. While the CEO and co-founder of Apple steered most interviews away from the public fascination with his private life, there's plenty we know about Jobs the person, beyond the Mac and the iPhone. If anything, the obscure details of his interior life paint a subtler, more nuanced portrait of how one of the finest ...
Man impersonating cop pulls over real cop
Post Date: 2011-10-08 04:12:57 by Tatarewicz
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police say a New Mexico man pretending to be police officer pulled over a real Albuquerque Police Department detective and is facing charges. KOB-TV reports (bit.ly/qRna9O ) that Tyree Appleberry was given the citation Wednesday on charges of impersonating a police officer then arrested for an outstanding warrant. According to police, the 42-year-old turned on his strobe lights on his white Chevy Tahoe in an attempt to stop a driver, who turned out to be an undercover officer. But Appleberry said he was not impersonating an officer and was instead asking the driver why he was in the parking lot next to an auto auction yard where his friend works. ...
Marriage helps cut crime: study
Post Date: 2011-10-08 01:12:28 by Tatarewicz
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Marriage can potentially help reduce crime by enabling people to develop greater self-control, according to a new study examining changes in marital status, self-control and marijuana use between late adolescence and early adulthood. The study by Dr Walter Forrest, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Monash University and Associate Professor Carter Hay, from Florida State University found that young marijuana users who went on to marry were less likely to have continued using the drug than those who remained single. The research also uncovered a key reason for the change was that those who married also experienced significant improvements in self-control. “Self-control is one of the ...
I need computer help.
Post Date: 2011-10-06 21:53:08 by Horse
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I need computer help. I am legally blind. I think someone sent me a virus I restarted my computer and am running my anti-virus software. I cannot watch YouTube videos. It goes in to a loop so I keep hearing the first few seconds. I started one video an hour ago. I cannot advance it to the end so I can hit replay. Any suggestions? I am on Windows 7.
PERFECT BOILED EGG
Post Date: 2011-10-05 23:30:44 by Tatarewicz
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It's a controversy that has created turmoil in Britain. For centuries it was widely assumed that it took three minutes to boil the perfect boil egg. It was a fact backed by several A-list chefs. A piece of wisdom that every decent Englishman and Englishwoman stood by. I may be going out on a limb here, but it was darn near part of the national character. So you can imagine the reaction when British TV cook, Delia Smith, announced that six minutes -- not three -- is the optimal time to boil an egg. Suffice it to say, it has shaken the very foundations of British society. To resolve the issue -- and prevent a possible civil war -- the Royal Society of Chemistry enlisted the help of a ...
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT APPLE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW?
Post Date: 2011-10-05 20:55:57 by Itistoolate
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Bagpipes at a Funeral
Post Date: 2011-10-05 11:17:30 by abraxas
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Bagpipes at a Funeral I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the Oklahoma back country. As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost and, being a typical man, I didn't stop for directions. I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight. There were only the diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch. I felt bad and apologized to the men for being late. I went to the side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn't ...
Funny Blogger on youtube "ramzpaul"
Post Date: 2011-10-05 06:04:04 by noone222
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Poster Comment:Take a minute to see how someone with a sense of humor approaches the absolutely horrendous condition the country, the economic system, and even your personal life is in today because the productive members of society have been enslaved to care for the laziest collective of non-productive motherfuckers in the world. Amerika, love it or off with your head !
C alif wife who killed, cooked husband seeks parole
Post Date: 2011-10-05 03:02:39 by Tatarewicz
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A woman who killed her newlywed husband and chopped and cooked his body parts over Thanksgiving weekend in 1991 is seeking release from a California prison. Omaima Nelson, an Egyptian-born former model and nanny, is set to appear before parole commissioners Wednesday at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla where she has been serving a life sentence. Nelson was convicted of murdering her 56-year-old husband William Nelson in a grisly killing that authorities likened to the fictional slayings of Hannibal Lecter. Prosecutors said the then-23-year-old killed Nelson and likely plotted to steal from him as she had done with other middle-aged ...
What is your favorite website?
Post Date: 2011-10-04 20:14:31 by Itistoolate
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I like sites that are not covered by the MSM. This is not necessarily my favorite but it is way up there. bilderberg.org/
East China province invests in South-North Water Diversion Project
Post Date: 2011-10-04 03:37:07 by Tatarewicz
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JINAN, Oct.4 (Xinhua) -- Shandong Province plans to invest 20.6 billion yuan (3.2 billion U.S. dollars) in the construction of the eastern route of the South-North Water Diversion Project (SNWD) over the next two years, local authorities said. The investments will fund the construction of 11 water projects along or near the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal that passes the province, according to the Shandong Administration for SNWD. The projects, expected to be completed in 2013, will bring water to drought-prone Shandong and Tianjin, a northern municipality, ensuring local demands for drinking, industrial and agricultural water. China has been working on the South-North Water Diversion ...
Two husband solution to China's women shortage
Post Date: 2011-10-04 02:01:54 by Tatarewicz
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Should wives in China be allowed to have two husbands ? Poll:: Yes - 48% No: 44% 11 January 2010. The Chinese state media has admitted that the country's One Child policy has resulted in a potentially disastrous demographic crisis. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences reports that the policy that mandates abortion for many pregnancies, combined with sex-selection and a cultural preference for boys, has created a gender imbalance that will result in 24 MILLION MEN WHO CANNOT FIND WIVES by 2020. The Academy study said that for every 100 girls born in China, 119 boys are born. In some areas, the split is 100 to 130. Sex-specific abortions have led to a large male population ...
Husband crippled,Woman wants compensation for her sex rights violation
Post Date: 2011-10-04 00:45:08 by Tatarewicz
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Mrs Huang from Si Chuan wants to sue a construction company for violating her sex rights, because her husband, who worked for the company, fell from the second floor of a building and had a spinal fracture when he was at work. The company has been covering his medical costs. Everything seems to be reasonable. But husband is disabled and the lower part of his body can't move, he has lost his sex ability. So Mrs Huang wants the company to compensate her for her sex rights. Will she win the case? What do you think of her? Comments: Seneca: Women always think of the one and only thing... ...money. Aziz: The company can compensate her with another fittest guy.
Ukrainian geezer killed by ten perogies
Post Date: 2011-10-03 06:22:45 by Tatarewicz
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Man wins dumpling eating contest, then dies Updated: 2011-09-22 09:25 (Agencies) Comments(0) Print Mail Large Medium Small 0 KIEV - A 77-year-old Ukrainian man won a jar full of sour cream for coming first in a dumpling eating contest and then promptly died, local media reported on Wednesday. Ivan Mendel ate 10 dumplings in half a minute to win first place and a one-litre jar of sour cream in the contest held in the town of Tokmak in the southeastern Zaporizhya region on September 18, Fakty I Kommentarii newspaper said. Shortly afterwards, Mendel became unwell and died, according to local news websites. Dumplings, called "vareniki" in the former Soviet republic, are a staple ...
Elton John brings 'million dollar piano' to Vegas
Post Date: 2011-10-03 05:48:12 by Tatarewicz
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Singer Elton John opened his new Las Vegas act at Caesars Palace on Wednesday, tickling the ivories on his new "million dollar piano" nicknamed Blossom that lit up to reflect the mood of each song. "The Million Dollar Piano" show marks the beginning John's three-year residency at Caesar's theater, The Colosseum, and Wednesday's performance was the first of 16 shows scheduled through October. A second series begins in February. Long-known for his flamboyant costumes, John walked onto a Roman-inspired golden stage in a glittering silver cape, removed to reveal a glimmering black coat and golden shoes before sitting down to play on a custom piano covered with ...
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