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Sleepy Hollow, Kazakhstan
Post Date: 2014-12-15 05:50:42 by Tatarewicz
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RT... For two years the villagers of Kalachi in Kazakhstan have been suffering from an inexplicable disorder, where they fall asleep for no apparent reason. The indiscriminate illness has no cure. Episodes begin without warning, and those affected never know if they will wake up again. Its causes and consequences remain unknown despite multiple attempts by medics and scientists to solve the riddle. Now the RTD team goes to Sleepy Hollow, as it has come to be known, to undertake its own investigation. Poster Comment:Maria Ene I believe it is a satellite which targets some area with a strong magnetic field on a frequency that humans use in brain and causes "falling asleep". Sounds ...
Retired chief justice reflects on his role
Post Date: 2014-12-14 22:25:45 by Tatarewicz
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The Road Not Taken: Bernardo judge considered priesthood The judge who presided over the Paul Bernardo trial considers the question, then chooses his words very carefully: did he ever pray during his 29 years on the bench? "In very, very stressful periods - of which I've had few - yes, I would sometimes just go into a church, an empty church and sit, contemplate. A little bit of prayer, yes," Patrick LeSage tells Tapestry in an interview. If a person breaks a law, it doesn't make them a criminal. You may commit a crime, that doesn't make you a criminal in my eyes. Patrick LeSage But the retired chief justice of the Superior Court of Ontario is emphatic about ...
Jethro Tull Has Left Us - please say good-bye [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2014-12-14 22:13:11 by Lod
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JT - all your experience, wisdom and insight will be sorely missed, lod
Interesting week on C2C
Post Date: 2014-12-14 07:36:19 by Tatarewicz
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Schedule for 12.14.14 - 12.19.14 Sunday December 14, 2014 Hosted by Richard Syrett Guest(s): Victor Viggiani, Lauren Weinstein Host Richard Syrett will be joined by Canadian UFO disclosure advocate, Victor Viggiani, who will discuss Paul Hellyer, the first Canadian ranking government cabinet member in G8 to go public with his beliefs concerning UFOs, ETs, and Roswell. In the first hour, privacy expert Lauren Weinstein will reveal how your brand new "smart" TV is actually spying on you in ways that you wouldn't believe. Monday December 15, 2014 Hosted by George Noory Guest(s): Christopher Boucher A pioneer of the modern U.S. hemp industry, Christopher Boucher will detail ...
Alternative Nobel: Fidel Castro wins China’s Confucius Peace Prize
Post Date: 2014-12-14 04:14:21 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro has been awarded the Confucius Peace Prize, China’s alternative to the Nobel. Castro was praised for “important contributions on eliminating nuclear war after his retirement,” and will get US$15,000. The 88-year-old icon was selected from 14 individuals, including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and two organizations, to win China’s peace prize, state newspaper the Global Times reported on Thursday "While in office, Castro didn't resort to violence or force to settle disputes in international relations, especially with the United States," the report said. "After his retirement, he has been actively ...
The professor as a pretender. What role do professors play in social life?
Post Date: 2014-12-13 06:33:12 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda...How do they affect the quality of public policy? The perceptions of what a professor is thought to be tends to be wrapped up in the narratives of public images around certain 'pop' individuals who have developed through history and fiction. Take for example when someone uses the term "Einstein". The term "Einstein" is now a persona meaning someone who is brilliant, a brilliance almost untouchable for the 'average man in the street'. It also allures to that person having a sense of pragmatism in solving 'unsolvable' problems. The "professor" played by Russell Johnson in the long running TV series Gilligan's Island, showed ...
Dead Coyote Hung from Tree with Christmas Bow (fake outrage ensues!!!)
Post Date: 2014-12-12 14:36:35 by X-15
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PLAINS, Mont., Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A dead coyote hung from a tree with a Christmas bow along a Montana school bus route is outraging residents, but police said the display is not illegal. Plains resident Mary Ellen Siegford, who posted a picture of the less-than-cheerful holiday display on Facebook, said her daughter burst into tears when she saw the dead animal. "A lot of people were just like, 'Well, be glad it's dead. You don't have to worry about it eating your pets,'" Siegford told KECI-TV. "But I don't know. To me, it's morbid, it rings of animal cruelty. It's just not very pleasant to drive past, and I feel it's pretty gruesome for the ...
Beautiful Olde Things & Places
Post Date: 2014-12-12 11:56:53 by Lod
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Enjoy.
China's grand new "canal" diverts water northward
Post Date: 2014-12-12 08:03:34 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- A series of canals and pipelines stretching over 1,400 kilometers began diverting water on Friday from China's longest river, the Yangtze, directly to the country's arid northern regions, including capital city Beijing. The completion of the water scheme marked major progress in the nation's enormous south-to-north water diversion project, the largest of its kind in the world at an estimated cost of 500 billion yuan (about 80 billion U.S. dollars). The project, which aims to alleviate water shortages in the north, is another engineering achievement by the Chinese. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the world's longest man-made river, was ...
Xi chosen as 'Person of the Year' in Russia
Post Date: 2014-12-12 07:41:32 by Tatarewicz
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China Daily President Xi Jinping was named as "Person of the Year 2014" by the Russian Biographical Institute for the "strengthening of economic and political ties with the Russia", which reflects the rising influence of China and its leader. It is the first time the institute has given the award to a leader of a country that doesn't belong to the Commonwealth of Independent States. The Russian Biographical Institute, founded in 1992, is a nongovernmental and noncommercial organization based in Moscow. Its Person of the Year award acknowledges the recipients involved as being guided by the principles of social, spiritual and moral responsibility. Besides Xi, four ...
12-Year-Old Girl Shoots Mountain Lion in Self Defense
Post Date: 2014-12-12 01:22:17 by James Deffenbach
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Alyssa Caldwell and her father had been hunting all day. The weather had been nasty; cloudy skies with snow and rain alternating. They had seen a few elk, much too far away to try a shot. They left their makeshift blind to see if they could spot another elk before the end of the day. It was the middle of the afternoon . . . At 12, Alyssa Caldwell was already an experienced huntress. She had started shooting at five-years-old. On this day, Alyssa had a new rifle: a stainless Howa 1500. Alyssa and her father had only gone a few hundred yards from the blind when her father remembered that he’d left the shooting sticks behind. He told Alyssa to wait while he went back to retrieve them. ...
Pay It Forward - Kindness Boomerang
Post Date: 2014-12-10 10:45:29 by Lod
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Britons do ‘backyard burials’ over high costs: Lawmaker
Post Date: 2014-12-10 02:54:59 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Rising costs are forcing Britons to hold “do-it-yourself” funerals and bury their loved ones in their own backyards, a British lawmaker warns. Emma Lewell-Buck, a Labour MP, said in a parliamentary session on Tuesday that tens of thousands of Britons struggle to pay for funeral costs, with some resorting to the practice of laying their relatives to rest in their own gardens. Citing a Royal London report, Lewell-Buck said 100,000 families struggle each year to afford the cost of a funeral. According to the British MP, an average funeral now costs £3,551; however, in some areas where there are problems regarding burial space availability, the price reaches ...
CIA Paid Millions to Company for Developing Interrogation Techniques
Post Date: 2014-12-10 02:11:56 by Tatarewicz
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by Sputnik company, established by two psychologists with no background on interrogation, was awarded millions of dollars by US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for developing and implementing the agency’s enhanced interrogation techniques against the detainees, suspected in terrorism, a report released on Tuesday by the US Senate said. “In 2006, the value of the CIA’s base contract with the company, formed by the psychologists with all options exercised was in excess of $180 million; the contractors received $81 million prior to the contract’s termination in 2009,” the report read. According to the report, in 2005, the psychologists formed a company for the ...
Walk With Me a Bit...Let's Talk
Post Date: 2014-12-07 18:13:29 by James Deffenbach
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Until Friday, it wasn't a big deal. Surgery that is. I knew it was going to happen but until yesterday, I couldn't put my finger on a calendar and show you that date. It was just a fuzzy, non-specific thing. Something that was to be scratched off a to-do list. It wasn't a big deal. I assigned it little relevance...just something I needed to do and move on. But it is a big deal. On January 16th, I will be admitted to Seton Medical Center in Austin Texas. On that day, Doctor and ENT Surgeon Peter Scholl will cure my cancer. He will do so by removing my larynx, possibly my thyroid and every lymph node in the general vicinity. We didn't come to this decision lightly. The ...
Time to put a Cork (County Cork, Ireland) in it
Post Date: 2014-12-06 13:25:18 by James Deffenbach
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Brain Training Doesn’t Make You Smarter
Post Date: 2014-12-06 05:45:04 by Tatarewicz
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ScientificAmerican... If you’ve spent more than about 5 minutes surfing the web, listening to the radio, or watching TV in the past few years, you will know that cognitive training—better known as “brain training”—is one of the hottest new trends in self improvement. Lumosity, which offers web-based tasks designed to improve cognitive abilities such as memory and attention, boasts 50 million subscribers and advertises on National Public Radio. Cogmed claims to be “a computer-based solution for attention problems caused by poor working memory,” and BrainHQ will help you “make the most of your unique brain.” The promise of all of these products, ...
And They Would Have You Believe That Men Don't Remember Stuff
Post Date: 2014-12-05 13:13:13 by James Deffenbach
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Woman Makes Fun Of Her Husband's Ability To Have Sex. But Then He Says This.
Post Date: 2014-12-05 11:12:01 by James Deffenbach
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New DNA Tests Raise Questions Over British Queen’s Legitimacy
Post Date: 2014-12-05 00:38:07 by Tatarewicz
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Craig Rex, who claims to be a 7th-generation descendant of another well-known English monarch, King George III stated that the legitimacy of the present British Royal family raises some questions due to the latest DNA tests. LONDON, December 5 (Sputnik) — New DNA analysis of the remains of one of England’s most well-known monarchs, King Richard III, has led to fresh questions over the legitimacy of the present British Royal family, the House of Windsor. Cameron Broke Royal Protocol When Detailed Private Conversation with Queen “We question the legitimacy of the current Royal family. If they, the Royal heirs, are prepared to offer their DNA then ‘finality’ would ...
Bicycle pumps used in Indian state for sterilization operations
Post Date: 2014-12-04 02:57:58 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... An Indian state has shut down mass sterilization operations at health camps after a physician was found using a bicycle pump to inflate patients' abdomens. Dr. Mahesh Chandra Rout said that he had regularly used a bicycle pump to carry out sterilization operations in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, the state-run BBC reported on Wednesday. "Cycle pumps are routinely used in many other parts of the state in the absence of costly medical equipment. There is no reason to make a big fuss about it as it has been proved fairly safe, and an affordable alternative," said the doctor, who used a pump on 56 women last Friday. Indian state officials said that using pumps ...
Mystery Surrounds NASA's Secret Mission in Africa
Post Date: 2014-12-04 02:47:26 by Tatarewicz
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Dec 3, 2014, 12:57 PM ET By LEE FERRAN Lee Ferran More from Lee » ABC News... A NASA official recently confirmed that one of the agency’s aircraft had been spotted on an American military airstrip in eastern Africa a few weeks ago, but like a series of U.S. military officials, declined to say what the space agency’s high-tech bird was doing there. “I really can’t give you any of the details,” Jim Alexander, a NASA official with the WB-57 High Altitude Research Program, told ABC News. “You know, the airplane was there, you see it in the picture. But I really can’t tell you what it was for.” The broad-winged white plane belonging to the agency ...
I’m gay, and I oppose gay marriage
Post Date: 2014-12-02 10:22:32 by James Deffenbach
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In our sometimes misguided efforts to expand our freedom, selfish adults have systematically dismantled that which is most precious to children as they grow and develop. That’s why I am now speaking out against same-sex marriage. By the way, I am gay. A few days ago I testified against pending same-sex marriage legislation in Minnesota’s Senate Judiciary and House Civil Law Committees. The atmosphere at these events (I’ve also testified elsewhere) seems tinged with unreality—almost a carnival-like surrealism. Natural law, tradition, religion, intellectual curiosity, and free inquiry no longer play a role in deliberations. Same-sex marriage legislation is defended ...
Danny Macaskill: The Ridge (This is Awesome!)
Post Date: 2014-12-01 09:31:54 by James Deffenbach
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Dogs Babysitting - too sweet
Post Date: 2014-11-30 19:37:27 by Lod
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