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Cupcakes for a Cause: Teens Who Bake for Charity
Longtime friends Leanne Youstra and Margaret Quinn have learned that a passion for baking combined with a dedication to others produces sweet success.
Last summer, 17-year-old Leanne Youstra volunteered at City Camp, a weeklong community service mission connecting visiting youth groups with local children from low-income families in northern Philadelphia. As a devoted fan of food shows like Cake Boss and Cupcake Wars, she couldn't help noticing the unappetizing boxed meals that were being handed out to the children. "It was uncomfortable to watch kids only a few years younger than me not wanting to eat, even though they were obviously hungry," Leanne says. "I was determined to spend the rest of my summer finding a way to benefit them."
Leanne recalled reading Food Network celebrity Sandra Lee's memoir, Made from Scratch, which mentioned her partnership with the Share Our Strength (SOS) Great American Bake Sale (GABS), a national effort to end childhood hunger in America by 2015. After returning home, Leanne asked her best friend since sixth grade, Margaret Quinn, if she'd be interested in combining their shared love of baking cupcakes with reaching out to disadvantaged children and their families. "The idea of doing something we enjoy while raising money for a cause that's so important seemed like the perfect match," says Margaret.
The girls devoted one day a week over the next month to planning and researching how and where they could make their bake sales successful. They created a Facebook page and their own webpage within the GABS site, along with labels touting their organization, Baking for Change. At a June graduation ceremony, Leanne reconnected with her former elementary school principal, and in late August they met with her to discuss hosting a bake sale at a school event. The principal suggested back-to-school night, which was only a week away and four days before their first bake sale at their church.
Over the next few nights, Leanne's kitchen quickly turned into a makeshift command center. They made GABS flyers, posters and display boards, and churned out 400 homemade cupcakes, enough for both events—or so they thought. On back-to-school night, they sold 130 cupcakes. They'd planned on having the church bake sale open for three consecutive Sunday masses, but were out of stock after the second. Cupcakes were $2 each at the school, and customers set their own price at the church, which ended up being more successful. "We really didn't know what to expect," says Leanne. "But after the two sales, we had raised around $1,000."
In the following weeks the girls received calls and e-mails complimenting their professionalism, requesting more cupcakes and asking when their next sale would be. They scheduled it for December—they had to focus on school first—and raised another $800, which was matched by sponsors of SOS. GABS included them on the 2011 Bake Sale Rock Stars list, the organization's roster of top fundraising teams nationwide. Every few months they've held a bake sale at their church, and they hosted one at their high school during a track meet.
Margaret is constantly struck by the generosity of the donations, which have reached as much as $20 for a single cupcake, enough to help feed two children lunch for an entire summer. "It's rewarding to know that we're providing aid to these kids," says Margaret.
Best-Selling Cupcake Recipe
Leanne and Margaret offer seven varieties at their sales, but this recipe is always the best seller.
Snickerdoodle Cupcakes and Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting
Makes 22 to 24 cupcakes and 3 1/2 cups of frosting
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line two 12-capacity cupcake pans with paper liners.
2. Combine 1 box (18.25 ounces) white cake mix, 1 cup milk, 1/2 cup (1 stick) melted unsalted butter, 3 large eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon in a large mixing bowl. Blend with an electric mixer on low speed for 1 minute. Stop the mixer and scrape down side of bowl with a rubber spatula. Increase mixer speed to medium and beat 2 minutes more, scraping side again if needed. Using a standard ice cream scoop, fill each liner two-thirds full.
3. Bake cupcakes at 350 degrees F until they are golden brown and spring back when lightly pressed with your finger, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven and cool cupcakes in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes.
4. Remove cupcakes directly to the wire racks and cool completely, 30 minutes more. Meanwhile, place 1/2 cup (1 stick) softened unsalted butter in a large mixing bowl. Blend with an electric mixer on low speed for 30 seconds, or until fluffy. Stop the mixer and add 3 3/4 cups confectioners' sugar, 3 tablespoons milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon. Blend with mixer on low until sugar is incorporated, 1 minute. Increase speed to medium and beat until light and fluffy, 1 minute more. Blend in up to 1 additional tablespoon milk if frosting seems too stiff. Spread onto cooled cupcakes.
Bake Sale Tips
Bring in the dough with these smart start-up tips.
- Ask for input. "Know what you like to make, and what your family and friends enjoy. It's almost guaranteed to be the top seller," Leanne suggests.
- The more the merrier. Encourage classmates and friends to pitch in and be there for moral support.
- Publicize your event. Use social media and GABS's online Bake Sale Resource Center to get the word out.
- Host your sale in a familiar place. "People were more receptive at the church, where they knew us and our families, than at an elementary school where we had no personal connection," Leanne says.
To learn more about hosting your own bake sale or to make a donation, visit GreatAmericanBakeSale.org


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16 Lives: Roger Casement, by Angus Mitchell (O'Brien Press).
This book describes in detail the work of a great humanitarian. It gives a very moving account of his trial and last days, but all told it is far more hagiography than history, and ultimately proves disappointing.
It contains a number of "terminological inexactitudes" and misunderstandings: Churchill's famous retort to Baldwin, "I shall write ... history" (p. 366) has a double meaning that Mr Mitchell misses. Edward Carson never prosecuted Oscar Wilde (p. 84), and the "parallels" Mr Mitchell sees between Casement's and "the trial and public humiliation of both Charles Stewart Parnell and Oscar Wilde" (p. 330) are hard to find. Wilde brought his trial and humiliation on himself by his hubris, and it was Parnell's arrogance that led to his humiliation by his own party after he was cited in a civil divorce court. There is no evidence of British state machinations in either of those cases, unlike in Casement's.
We find more such inexactitudes: the "letter of sympathy [the Kaiser sent] to Kruger, which aroused fierce reaction in England" was in fact a telegram of congratulations on the defeat of the Jameson Raid "without appealing to the help of friendly powers", and the reason it aroused reaction was because of its implicit offer of German support for the Boers. Winston Churchill's "support for the leaders of the Ulster Volunteer Force" will raise the chuckles if not the hackles of historians who know about his support for Home Rule—albeit qualified and conditional—and the physical attack made on him by Loyalists because of his speech to Nationalists in Celtic Park. Perhaps Mr Mitchell was thinking of Sir Winston's long-dead father?
Perhaps, too, concerns other than historical exactitude may exercise Mr Mitchell. His presentation of Carson as persecutor of another Irishman may constitute deliberate "poisoning of the well"; later an "associative fallacy" implies that somehow Carson was engaged in the Crown's prosecution of Casement. Indeed every well from which any of Casement's opponents might drink is subtly poisoned. That IPP members refused to condemn the King of the Belgians on religious grounds may well be right; but did all of them do so? And why no end-noted source for this claim? Mention of "Britain's lucrative slave trade" in the eighteenth century has no more relevance to Casement's concerns with humanitarian horrors in the twentieth-century Belgian Congo than the fact that Leopold II was "a first cousin of Queen Victoria". Such nugatory sly remarks evoke an intelligent reader's distrust of their author.
It is not at all clear why the Putamayo atrocities would destroy Casement's "beliefs in the 'civilising' potential of the British Empire". Putamayo was far from any British colony, and run by South Americans. The Peruvian Amazon Company was registered in London, and British venture capitalism had recently been invested in it, but how many investors know where their money goes? Even if they did, they could not have known the conditions in Putamayo until Casement exposed them; and the result of that exposure was a British parliamentary investigation that led to tightening of anti-slavery legislation across the Empire. A rather civilising measure, any reader might be excused for thinking.
Two pages after making this odd assertion (of the alleged destruction of Casement's beliefs), Mr Mitchell acknowledges the advocacy of the British ambassador in Washington's efforts to "apply pressure on the Peruvian government" to end the abuses (p. 148); and elsewhere (p. 110), he quotes Casement's "appeal to the humanity of England" to end the Congo atrocities.
Given many and various inconsistencies and contradictions, it becomes hard not to suspect that Mr Mitchell is using the life of an admirable man to advance some agenda of his own. My own reading of Casement's work is regrettably quite limited, but I find nothing to support the notion that he was an "internationalist" in the sense that Mr Mitchell imputes; rather, internationalism of such a flavour would have been at odds with the views of Advanced Nationalists. If Casement perceived an independent Ireland better served by links with Continental Europe than with Britain, he did so on different ideological grounds than Mr Mitchell's: "early Europe was very largely Celtic Europe, and nowhere can we trace the continuous influence of Celtic culture and idealism, coming down to us from a remote past, save in Ireland only" ("The Romance of Irish History"). It would seem from this that Casement looked on Ireland as setting a standard for the rest of Europe, not toward the philosophy of a German refugee who had beavered toward the betterment of mankind in the safety of a British library.
Evidence of Casement's simplistic understanding of history is never harder to find than his biographer's endorsement of such understanding. Elsewhere (in this same essay) Casement claims: "[Sir Hugh] O'Neill would have driven Elizabeth from Ireland, and a sovereign State would today be the guardian of the freedom of the western seas for Europe and the world".
The unromantic facts are that O'Neill was a warlord with no concept of Casement's Enlightenment values or even nationalism, far less internationalism; that his concern was not for Ireland but personal hegemony of Tyrone, Ulster, or however far his might could reach; that until Elizabeth failed to appoint him Lord President of Ulster Sir Hugh fought with the English against his fellow-Irish and only fought against the English when that better served his personal ambition.
Casement's misinterpretation of the Nine Years' War (and his analysis of its counterfactual outcome) reveals both blind hostility to Britain and naïveté. His hostility as an Irish nationalist is of course understandable, but it nevertheless blinded him to modern reality, and Mr Mitchell, rather than applying an historian's corrective analysis to such naïveté, blandly reports and implicitly would seem to endorse Casement's views. Indeed he claims that the failure of Britain's Continental enemies over the centuries was because "they underestimated Ireland's significance" (p. 218). Defeat in military and naval engagements had rather more to do with things. Those enemies, no less than Britain, were very well aware of Ireland's value as a "back door".
Certainly Germany was; and one of the most perturbing mysteries of Casement's life is his relationship with the Second Reich. In The Crime Against Europe he claims "We must find the motive for England allying herself with France and Russia in an admittedly anti-German 'understanding' if we would understand the causes of the present war"; he proceeds from there to "understand" the war in light of the Anglophobia shared by Germans and Advanced Nationalists and elsewhere he claims that "only a German victory could deliver a true balance of power in Europe". Given that the Reich's aim was European hegemony, not a balance of power, this is self-evident nonsense.
There is neither need nor room to itemise the mistakes in "understanding" here; but one might expect an historian, in a full-length book, to examine Casement's beliefs and place them in a context of modern scholarship. Instead, Mr Mitchell just nods along. He claims that "a host of studies ... endorse several of Casement's opinions and arguments articulated in The Crime Against Europe" (p. 368).
It's true that in the interwar years of disillusionment some historians did indeed argue that Britain provoked the Great War. The best known was probably the flamboyant Harry Elmer Barnes, long since discredited. Like many others, Barnes was funded by the Zentralstelle zur Erforschung der Kriegschuldfrage, set up by the Weimar Republic to exonerate Germany of responsibility for the late war. Arthur Ponsonby, a colleague of ED Morel, proved a very "useful fool" (to borrow from Lenin); very old Germans may still be high-fiving each other at mention of Falsehood in Wartime. In recent years Niall Ferguson has blamed Britain too (though for different reasons than Casement), but Ferguson is hardly less flamboyant than Barnes, and seems to revel in being a contrarian; and while he has a great deal to offer any student of history, he is way off the mark, his main mark anyway, in The Pity of War.
Mitchell is closer to the mark when he says: "the First World War was a deliberate counter-revolutionary strike by reactionary ruling elements in Europe against democratic trends" (p. 368). Since 1912 the Social Democrats had been the largest party in the Reichstag, and a minor consideration in German war plans was to roll back this democratic "menace" and impose full autocracy on the Reich. However, it is hardly German worries about democracy that Mr Mitchell has in mind with his remark.
Nor was it with German domestic or imperial matters that Casement was concerned. He was aware of the "atrocious conduct of the Germans" in Kamerun (p. 53), and he cannot have been unaware of the far more extensive atrocities in Südwestafrika and Ostafrika. One of the great disappointments in an otherwise-admirable life is his failure to condemn what was deliberate genocide in German colonies. Again acknowledging that my reading of his work is far from comprehensive, he seems not to engage with these horrors at all.
Rather, he claims (in The Crime Against Europe) that "German Militarism ... has not been employed beyond the frontiers of Germany until last year [1914]". His complaint of "atrocious conduct" in Kamerun directly contradicts this assertion. Was Casement a brazen liar—or did he have a psychological problem, the possibility of which sometimes worried him? (Fear of the family strain of madness is something else that Mr Mitchell fails to address in his biography.) Joseph Conrad's assessment that Casement was governed by emotion rather than intellect would seem to be shrewder than Mr Mitchell credits (pp. 47-49). Casement's embitterment by his experiences in Germany, his complaint to his diary in early April 1916 "that Germany tried to incite a revolt ... in Ireland by a paltry gift of second-hand rifles put in the hands of excitable young men", are inconsistent with his reversion to support for the Reich.
It's difficult not to conclude that Casement's refusal to condemn Germany was rooted in sheer Anglophobia. Quite apart from what he attested to in Kamerun, he saw too much of the Rape of Belgium to pretend that it did not happen ("a gruesome sight, and ... a horrible story"), yet his response is downright disquieting: "I feel there may be in this awful lesson to the Belgian people a repayment" for what was done in the Congo (pp. 237-38). In his essay, "The Far-Extended Baleful Power of the Lie", he rightly denounces the risible Bryce Report, but fails to denounce the war crimes he himself had witnessed; rather, he justifies them.
If he merely sought to equate two wrongs as a right it would be morally bad enough; but Casement, more than any other man, knew that "what was done in the Congo" was not done by the Belgian people, or even in their name, but by a private autocrat who deceived his subjects; the purchasers of his monopolies; private colonial police; and native mercenaries. Absolutely not by the thousands of old men (one over eighty), women and children (one under three weeks) murdered by the Germans.
Instead, Casement justifies the Reich's invasion of Belgium, violation of a neutral country, breaking of an international treaty, because "[Germany] only asked for a right of way"—as if, to borrow from King Albert, Belgium were merely a road and not a nation; a small nation whose rights Casement, one might expect from his extensive writings previously, ought to have been defending, not whose invasion and rape he was downplaying and excusing.
How could such an otherwise great humanitarian, such an admirable, heroic and self-sacrificing human being, justify such outrages?
One looks in vain for hard questions such as this in Mr Mitchell's hagiography, far less for satisfactory answers.
Instead Mr Mitchell prefers to prove that "the Black Diaries are indeed forgeries" (pp. 17-18). He abjectly fails. Indeed, he doesn't even argue his case directly, but at best marshals circumstance and innuendo to constitute an army of "faulty generalisations" to fight his case. Protestations of innocence by obviously vested interests do not constitute persuasive argument. And why does Mr Mitchell so studiously evade examination (even mention) of the scientific analysis he ostensibly sets out to disprove?
No fair-minded historian would argue that Dr Audrey Giles' analysis of the Black Diaries is beyond criticism; but no critical reader of a book that would dismiss those Diaries as forgery can fail to wonder at the evasion of that book's author to engage with the Giles analysis; especially an author whose thesis is flatly contradicted by that analysis.
How eloquent can elision be? Mr Mitchell would seem to have set an unenviable standard.
Mr Mitchell's fixation on the forging of the Black Diaries distracts him from the fact that whether forged or not, it was the unscrupulous use to which the Diaries were put—poisoning any well from which Casement and his supporters could have drawn—that is of far greater import. The British were utterly set on seeing Casement swing, and a strong case can be made that by their use of the Diaries they compromised British justice. This is a more important and disturbing matter than whether the Diaries were forged or not. Mr Mitchell does eventually address this issue, but he might have said more had his focus not been distracted from the outset.
The hanging of such a humanitarian as Roger Casement can be regarded as an outrage even by those who take issue with some of the things he did and the disastrous foolishness of his alignment with the Second Reich. His appeal was badly bungled by his own counsel, but had the Diaries not been deployed by his enemies, his life might have been spared.
16 Lives: Roger Casement is not at all a bad book but it has significant shortcomings, so many that it is surprising to find its publication associated with the University of Limerick. It would never get the imprimatur of a university press in Britain or the USA. It constitutes a blatant endorsement of the "agreed version" of the Irish Revolutionary years, and while there always must be room for anti-revisionism in scholarship, all scholarship must be grounded in the historical method if it is to earn its name.

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Pouring down one minute and sunny the next. That's Casablanca at the moment.
The changeable weather is not the only thing that is totally unpredictable at the moment. Following my last report I once again checked the lost luggage site on BA expecting to see yet again that information on my luggage was unavailable at the moment but that they were doing their best to locate it. But no!!!
The bag had been located subject to confirmation!!! Who's confirmation ? There can surely only be one Mercian Bawling its eyes out and lost in a foreign port. My boy needed me, where was he, was he damaged? I asked the hotel man to ring the BA number immediately. No reply. So we rang all the numbers at the airport and after he was off the phone he said that Mercian was at the airport waiting to be picked up!
It seemed too good to be true. So I had them call Mohamed a taxi driver I could trust. He'd been good to me when I was down the night I'd lost my luggage and we took the hours drive through Casablanca to the airport. While he waited I did the rounds of the airport looking for the retrieved luggage section. And there he was , plastic film wrapped and looking happy. BA gift wrapped him for me. Or maybe they wrapped him because there was so much damage?
No. On closer inspection of the outside of his bag and a more detailed check back at the hotel, all looked well.
|My M.U.M (Mercian Urban Machine) is Back Again.
I am so happy to see him again. The baggage staff gave me no info on where the hold up had occurred and honestly I was only joking at Heathrow when I wrote in my diary that the Mercian may want to hang around in London having been brought up near there so to speak.
Adi has not yet paid for the ticket home so my journey around the world could continue from here although I would possible have to cut a little distance out of Morocco.
But. And I have thought carefully about this. I am not going to continue this trip for a number of reasons. But the main reason is because during my distress Adi was my rock. She has saved for this trip, encouraged me and been denied a part of it which was originally planned. She has endured the stress of her cat (Bob) almost dying while I was away and has now next week got to go into hospital to relieve pain in her knees and feet.
I feel if I go home now I have achieved the goal of having cycled another continent. I have not lost my bike and most importantly I can support Adi when she comes out of hospital and we may still have enough money to go on a cycle trip to Vietnam which she was looking forward too.
So that's it for the World Cycle Race but certainly not it for me and overseas touring. I have no regrets and I still have a Visa for Vietnam later in the year. Adi hopefully will be up and running for a joint trip. I certainly wont be going without her. So keep in touch with this blog if interested. ( I have unfinished buisness in China and Southeast Asia).
|The Suns Out But it's Still Stormy along the Coast.
I'm coming home Adi, book me a ticket and put the jug on. O' that's right you cant walk. I'll put the jug on.
Ps. have you noticed the tv in the picture of my bike and I. Broken. Just like everything else in Sth America and so far in Morocco. I can't wait to be somewhere where stuff generally does what it should.
Thanks to everyone who has made supportive comments I appreciate it. I will be blogging as usual since my bike and I are re- united and cycling life will go on and must be reported on.. Adi and I will soon be also re united and then its back on my wheels and out on the roads.
And I wish the still racing WCR riders the best. I can now follow from the comfort of the sofa. But with a new appreciation of all that can go wrong with even the best laid plans.


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Following the award of the National Lottery licence to Premier Lotteries Ireland, Camelot Global was appointed to find a service partner that could implement its plans to configure and install new lottery terminal equipment in 3,700 retail outlets in a very short timeframe.
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The credit union movement has been working on getting the member business lending [MBL] cap raised from 12.25% of assets for about 10 years now.
With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently standing on the Senate floor and calling for a vote on S-2231, which would raise the cap to 27.5% of assets, we are closer than we have ever been to getting a vote on this proposal.
With credit union and bank action alerts and emails revving up around this issue, some of you may be wondering why this issue is important to your credit union.
There are a variety of reasons why it's vitally important for all credit unions to engage staff and members around business lending:
History reminds us it's wise
Over the past 30 or so years, credit unions have periodically engaged with members of Congress on issues of importance.
Two of the bigger initiatives were the push to allow credit unions to offer share draft accounts and, of course, the huge battle around HR 1151, the Credit Union Membership Access Act, in 1998.
In both of these cases there were credit unions that had no plans to offer share drafts and no plans to move beyond a single-sponsor charter. Some of these credit unions not only did not engage on these issues, a few actively opposed the credit union grassroots response.
How do those decisions look in retrospect? And perhaps more to the point, how many credit unions out there today are single-sponsor and do not offer share drafts?
Consumer preferences change
These past battles remind us that times change and so do consumer preferences. If you talk to most credit unions today that offer member business lending, they'll tell you they started the program because members asked for business services.
With more technology tools available all the time, the barriers to starting a small business are falling. With a tech-savvy generation of young Americans entering the workforce, the demand for business services will likely only increase in the future.
Supporting lifting the MBL cap now may well help your credit union offer a service your members may begin asking for in the future.
It's the cooperative thing to do
Credit unions are strongest when they work together as a team. But teamwork involves give and take.
Although credit unions are the same in structure and purpose, it's also true they're different in many ways. There are community-chartered credit unions, state-chartered credit unions, credit unions that serve military populations or government employees ... and so on.
If credit unions neglect the wider movement and only work for their own individual best interests on legislative issues, it will be exceptionally difficult for credit unions to be successful in the future. So engaging on S-2231, even if your credit union has no plans to offer business loans, is the right thing to do for the movement.
If banks win, credit unions lose
Banks have been vigorous and vocal in their opposition to S-2231 and the overall MBL issue. (Surprise!) Credit unions have other issues that one day we hope will be front and center on the legislative agenda, including supplemental capital and exam reform.
We cannot live with the results of the bankers' way of thinking and we can't let the noise of their opinions drown us out when the page is turned from MBL onto other issues.
Credit unions need to chart their own future—and not let the banking community do it for us. A win on MBL helps us do that.
JOHN RADEBAUGH is president/CEO of the North Carolina Credit Union League.


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Last Primary Radar Return AA Flt 11, Is this time of 8:46:40 precise?
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I have written a paper along with Gordon Ross called "Seismic Proof: 9/11 was an Inside Job".
This paper is on the Scholars for 9/11 Truth website.
Here below is the summary and link that I post on the internet regarding this:
The following data has not been refuted by anyone yet.
Many proponents of the "official conspiracy theory" reject these times out-of-hand stating these facts are false, but unfounded opinions with no factual basis are meaningless.
These times are true and corroborate William Rodriguez and all the other eyewitnesses that morning who testified to explosions in the sub-basements of WTC1 BEFORE THE PLANE HIT THE BUILDING.
The data herein is from two official government sources that were charged with looking into what happened on 9/11, and both approved these times as real, accurate, and precise to the second.
I found these times on the internet this last July 24th by accident.
Craig T. Furlong
Plane Impact Times Indicting New Evidence of 9/11 Coverup & Involvement
Seismic Proof 9/11 Was An Inside Job (Updated Version II)
Link: http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/Seismic..._Inside_Job.doc
By Craig T. Furlong & Gordon Ross
Scholars for 9/11 Truth: http://www.st911.org /
One World Trade, September 11th, 2001
American Airlines Flight 11
8:46:40 UTC - FAA last primary radar contact
Both times: real, accurate to the second
Q- What caused the 8:46:30 seismic event ~10 seconds before the aircrash?
A- The only possibility...huge explosion(s).
Q- Who caused these explosions?
Ginny Carr audiotape ~9.2 second gap between initial explosion and aircrash.
The 9/11 Commission avoided the time of the initial seismic event.
The 9/11 Commission avoided the many witnesses who testified of explosions in the basements before the plane crashed, and NIST avoided the witnesses as well.
NIST avoided the 9/11 Commissions time of the aircrash.
Now is the time for the new 9/11 investigation, THIS TIME ONE WITH TEETH.
Justice waits.
{There is no Statute of Limitation on murder.}
The question I have is regarding the final primary radar return for AA Flt 11 that occurred at 8:46:40.
This is the the time of the crash as given by 9/11 Commission in its Final Report.
This time is clearly indicated in the Fig. 2 graph presented by the NTSB report on this flight:
HERE IS MY QUESTION: Is this 8:46:40 time real, accurate, and precise?
I believe it to be, and my question here is to seek corroboration of this based upon those with professional experience.
Anyone with experience in the areas of radar, ATC, NTSB etc. is invited to contribute on this matter; please share your knowledge and expertise. I only want the truth and nothing but.
Why am I asking this? Because I have encountered two questions from skeptics who thereby dismiss the paper as valueless. However, I believe their positions are false and that this 8:46:40 is a true and accurate time.
1st Question: Some proponents of the official conspiracy theory (i.e., the government's) have stated that the NTSB report used the word "approximate" time for the 8:46:40, so it can not be considered accurate down to the precise second. I countered by stating that, due to the radar sweep/fresh aspect of the antenna, yes it could be considered "approximate", but only in the instances of
perhaps it was 8:46:41 or
perhaps it was 8:46:42 or
perhaps it was 8:46:43 ...
But that it could not have been any earlier than 8:46:40 because that is the time of the last primary radar return.
2nd Question: Others have stated that, if you look at the Fig. 2 graph, the final 8:46:40 return was at zero ground level, so it couldn't have been AA Flt 11. I countered by saying the primary radar returns only provide location and time (not altitude).
These are the only two questions I have encountered on this crucial 8:46:40 time.
Any word or information from professionals in this area, or have some experience that would be helpful, would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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My name is Robin Hordon and I'm a ex air traffic controller and pilot who, when working for the FAA, was certified/used to breakdown both audio tapes and radar readouts of aircraft involved in "incidents" in need of investigation. I am qualified to speak to this subject except that I have no direct understanding how about the military/NORAD radar establishes altitude on a primary target.
I trust that NORAD has coincidental radar beams emitted in the search sweep...one deals with azmuth and range, [we commonly see this as a sweep around a radar screen], and the other, a coincidental vertical sweep or footprint, which must deal with the vertical angle of the reflected target which is also measured in reflection time giving the target approximate altitude as accomplished in the original azmuth sweep. The azmuth sweep and the vertical sweep must be somehow combined for NORAD display, or the vertical sweep may be displayed separately nearby.
Question #1...Is the last primary radar hit accurate in identifying the earliest time that AA11 could have hit WTC 1.
The answer is YES...but I hold a great deal of reservation regarding any information ever given about any subject at any time by the US Government...and I double that concern when it comes to any information coming from the military. However, for this challenge to your work, both sides are using the government's information and thus cancel each others potential for corruption.
Your conclusion that the collision could not possibly be earlier than :40 is astute and accurate. All times in aviation are based upon GMT [Greenwich Mean Time which is based upon time in Greenwich England] so that real time air traffic activities, projected activities, communications, and positioning/locating can be discussed worldwide all at once with everyone using the same time reference. A similar example of international "standards" agreements would be that the world agrees that north is toward the artic north pole and the south is toward the antarctic south pole...ie: the same reference. So it is with international air traffic time. Therefore, GMT time reference and controll room and aircraft time displays are used and apply to US military and US ATC operations.
The EIGHT number in the "8:46:40" AM time is corrected FROM GMT to the local time so as to make more sense to the public and non-professionals. Saying it in another way...the ":46:40" time in any particular hour is the ":46:40" time in EVERY hour whatever the particular "local" hour it is in the particular time zone throughout the world...and there are more than 24 "local times" worldwide as some locals do some customizing of their local time. GMT is never cutomized.
Although I am not expert on the time standards used by the scientific "siesmic" community, I trust that it uses the exact same GMT time standard for all of its recording, measuring and calculating. For example, in this way when an earthquake occurs in Japan, the results are measure and monitored all around the world using the EXACT same GMT time...this enables the timing and shock wave speed calculations to be accurately throughout he world. Scientists do not bother with trying to compute exactly which "time zone" the event occurred within. They are all using GMT as their reference. At a later point in the quake events, local times are adjusted into the mix by the "local non-scientists" as noted above.
Therefore, if the NORAD/FAA/Military collected radar data shown in your work is to be trusted, it is exactly as it is...:46:40 or later for the collision, and, it should relate accurately to the siesmic readings because they too are using the exact same GMT time reference.
Question #2...Last primary radrar return at ground level...
Primary radar systems have circuitry and adjustable parameters built within them to ingnore, or said differently, "do not display", primary radar returns that are stationary, or that do not move. If the primary radar sytem did not have this capability, then the radar would begin its "returns" from the nearby buildings, hills, trees, and more distant mountains and tall towers/antennae and the radar display would be a bright green blurb near the radar antennae. When these primary radar parameters are not adjusted properly, or sometimes if there are certain atmospheric conditions such as temperature inversions, then the radar displays tons of "ground clutter" or false targets. Therefore, great care and many steps are taken to "certify" that a particular radar system meets accuracy and such "filtering" standards. Moving on...
From the above explanation, if the last primary radar return of AA11 tried to reflect the aircraft that was actually AT ground level, or, at a very low level, the radar either would not be able to distinguish the aircraft from the backgorund [ground, trees, buildings, hills and the like], and therfore, the "ground clutter" elimination system would disqualify the aircraft's reflected return. Again, if AA11 were too low, the radar signal would not strike it because its a straight-line RF signal, or AA11's radar return would blend in with the buildings and the like even if it were moving and thus be automatically eliminated. But there WAS a primary radar return and that proves that AA11 was NOT at ground level when the radar beam was transmitted, reflected and read by NORAD's radar system.
Why the human generated "at ground level" terminology exists? It seems to me that the chart shows ground level as a conclusion by a human being..but if not, the above information should clarify. But lets look at it from a different perspective.
The reason that the primary radar shows AA11 at ground level is because that is the RADAR SYTEM's "ground level". Again, this is because anything below that is mixed in with the stationary radar returns of the buildings, tress, hills and the like...and again, it doesn't matter how many aircraft may be scooting around down there, the primary radar anti-ground clutter system will eliminate them all. Therfore, the "ground level" as noted by this chart is the RADAR'S ground level, not the earth's true ground level. Please note that MANY of these "primary radar return" limitations do not exist with electronic ie: transponder return signals...because there are no comparative electronic returns equalling,or coming from the immense amount of "ground, buildings, hills, mountains, antennae, and towers" that the primary radar "sees". This is why transponders are so valuable.
Another thing to remember about longer range radar is that the width of each degree of arc gets wider and wider as it gets farther away from the radar transmitting-receiving site. Lets compare and make some points:
First...lets consider the old fashioned radar landing systems that were used decades ago in bad weather,or on aircraft carriers, where a ground/shipboard radar controller would "talk and aircaft down" a particular vertical glide path to the runay using both a horizontal azmuth radar and a vertical height radar. The only way that the system worked was because the aircraft was getting closer and closer to both the radar and to the runway. In other words, the width of both of the radar beams was getting smaller and smaller the closer the aircraft got to the runway/radar which gave it more accuracy with closure.
Second...lets expand this "beam width" concept to a radar controller on earth, using an earth based radar system, talking an astronaught down to the surface of the moon. How accurate do you think that beam width at the moon would be regarding the moon's surface. The beam width would probably be tens of miles wide. Translating...the earthly controller's radar "could" show the the lunar lander was right in the middle of the radar glide path, but the lunar lander could be twenty miles above the surface or just about to plow into a crater.
Getting back to Manhattan...and re-making the point made by the military itself, that the altitudes shown by the simple primary radar altitude system are at the best, approximate. And I claim that the farther away from the vertical radar antennae, the less accurate it is. The military does not identify the location of their altitude radar. Therefore, accept the military's explanation about altitude innacuracies and apply it to AA11 as it hit the WTC.
That should do it for your issues with your challengers.
Now, something that I would like everyone reading this report to remember.
THE MILITARY HAD THE CAPABILITY TO TRACK AA11, AND ALL THE OTHER AIRCRAFT ALL THE WAY...THESE CHARTS ON AA11 PROVE IT...and the North American Radar Defense Command has radars all over he place...like North America for example. Seems sensible to me!
Therefore, their claim that they didn't know where the aircraft were, nor could they find or track them will eventually be proven wrong. I postulate that both the FAA and NORAD had solid targets all the way along. My inside information from ZBW states that the ZBW controllers DID locate AA11 to NORAD well before it is currently acknowledged. This is the reason that the FAA/FBI will not release ATC sector audio tapes detailing the communication and coordination actions that the CIVILIAN air traffic controllers took when dealing with the emergencies. I believe that the Christian Scence Monitor in Boston, or some other testimony that "leaked out", shows that the ZBW controller thought there was big trouble around 8:15-8:20 AM and began to take action. I want ALL the controller tapes...not just the radio transmissions, or assistant controller portions. Then, I postulate that we will find out that NORAD indeed was informed WAY before Rummy's military states that it was informed.
I have been told that the ZBW controller contacted the Otis [FMH] approach control for help around 8:24. Wrong place...right timing...right reasons
Its Rummy's military who wasn't picking up the phone!
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ZBW = Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center, for those that dont know..
Thanks for your input Robin.
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According to an interview with the three air controllers who first noticed trouble on Flight 11 it was considered a "runaway plane" at about 8:20 am and they began moving other flights out of it's way.
It seems that they would have contracted NORAD at that point even if they
had no suspicions of a hijack but merely an emergency of some kind.
It also seems that NORAD would have noticed the fact that a flight path was being cleared in front of a plane that was headed directly toward Rome , New York, where NORAD NEADS itself was located.
NORAD can monitor radio traffic and certainly should have heard the
FAA attempts to raise Flight 11 long before getting a phone call from them.
What I would like to know is did Flight 175 also have traffic moved
out of it's way and if so would that not have been yet another signal to NORAD that something was wrong?
The 9/11 Commission made no mention of a "runaway plane" scenario at 8:20
am and never inquired if NORAD was monitoring radio communications
during all of this emergency activity.
The focus on the term "hijack" seems to be used to as a smokescreen to imply that
NORAD was not required to react to other emergency or suspicious situations involving aircraft, or to intercept drug smugglers, or shoot down unmanned
aerial objects, all of which require rapid response times and the ability to track small targets without transponders.
Interestingly the US Customs radar center had software that would have
signalled an alarm if a plane went off course or turned off it's transponder
or any other suspisious actions that might indicate it was involved in drug smuggling, so you would think NORAD would have at least the same if not greater
detection capabilities.
The US Customs service also scrambled it's drug interceptors about 10,000
times every year on a five minute alert basis. They also had a direct line to NORAD
for co-ordinated operations as detailed in the famous 1996 shoot down incident in the Florida straights near Cuba.
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I'm curious about where you got that information regarding the "conclusions" of three controllers that is was a "runnaway plane".
Runaway plane is not a very familiar term to me except perhaps aircraft who are out of control when taxiing or on an aircraft carrier's deck having some restraint troubles. Runaway train...OK...I'm on that one...
However, clearly if the three controllers thoght this was a runaway plane, it wasn't a good thing to be happening, and they would STILL start their reach-out to ADC/NORAD right then and there.
From what I understand about NORAD, they basically "see" all the traffic that they can, and try to decide wether if is "Friend or Foe"...period!
There is no tracking of aircraft that are under FAA control or random VFR types that are considered "Freindly". Therefore, since so many flights can go in so many directions at all sorts of random times, and NORAD does not have flight path/routing information about the aircraft being worked by the FAA sectors, NORAD would not be able to tell the difference if aircraft were on course, off course, or if it was being vectored around "whatever" might be out there. Almost all "on or off" air routes observations and monitoring is accomplished by the FAA ARTCC's because they have the flight plan data base showing the routings that the FAA controllers read and get into their heads.
Same story as frequencies...there are too many conversations going on all across the country for any one body such as NORAD to sit there and try to unscramble and make any sense of it all...randomely. Surely NORAD has capabilities to "lsten in on, or to perhaps now, even to broadcast" on any chosen frequency once asked to do so. When NORAD talks to/with the military aircraft under their watch/control, they have their own secretive frequencies. So, NORAD had no reason to "listen to" AA11, therefore, they would not know that anything might be wrong regarding radio contact.
Not the same regarding the transpondr though. In my experience with NORAD, almost every time I had a transponder issue with a high altitude aircraft, when I called the ADC sector involved, the sharper observers/controllers would already have seen the high altitude "beacon" or transponder go out. But not all NORAD/ADC monitors/observers were right on this...sometimes they had other duties in other areas of their responsibility.
Regarding traffic being moved out of the way for UA175, its the same as AA11 above. The only teams moving traffic out of the way were the FAA air traffic controller sets of teams in those sectors along the way.
I believe that there is some testimony somewhere that was slipped out to local New England newspapers, that the radar controller in charge when AA11 went bad, shows that the radar controller "saw trouble" with AA11 before he/she decided that it was a hijack. The scenario that I remember is "immediate concern" with the directional change and loosing the transponder. This is "observable" without radio contact, and that's what radar controllers do...watch all their aircraft on every sweep. [believe it or not, controllers are trained in the discipline to keep their own eyes "sweeping" and not allow them to be fixated on only one part of their airspace...which happens] Then, after seeing the routing change and the transponder failure, he/she began to try and contact AA11 on the radio...with no avail. Were I the controller at his time, my thoughts would be that things may be very, very bad...perhaps a total electrical failure, again...very, very bad things could be happening. A few minutes AFTER observing trouble, and after several attempts to re-establish radio contact with AA11, transcripts show that there were a couple of strange transmissions about "having more planes" and another telling someoe to "stay still, or "remain in your seats".
Well, if emergency procedures have already been enjoined by the controller at that time...A VERY, VERY LIKELY THING, then there would have been additional controllers "plugged into" the extra radio and control positions to enhance the system's "ears" so that if ANYTHING is heard...there could be as many witnesses or interperatations of those transmissions as is possible so as to "hear" what was said...if anything was said at all. It would be at that time, after the odd transmissions were heard, that the first thought that AA11 might be a hijacked aircraft. However, remember, ADC/NORAD was most likely already called in to the picture several minutes before these odd transmissions. One or more of the additional controllers may have coordinated this ADC/NORAD connection.
Therefore, it may be true that the word "hijack" may have been misused in describing the events with AA11. Surely there are other reasons that ADC/NORAD and the FAA controllers have experienced which call for scrambling fighters...or in the case of the border drug issues, smaller and slower aircraft.
US Customs is/was not my baliwick, but my understanding of US Customs systems and flights over international waters and in international airspace such as that on our southern watery borders back when I flew them myself, is that indeed, flights have to remain exactly on course and on time out there. Any deviations are surely noticed.
Also, its most likely that the Customs software is somewhat similar to the FAA's enroute software with good data bases and routing information stored in the data banks. And for sure, the radar sensitivities needed to pick up low slow aircraft flying a few feet above the Gulf waters are a least somewhat different from the radar used over northern Canada.
In the end, both ADC/NORAD and the FAA controllers know what to do when troubles hit...its just a matter of who told whom what and when they told them.
To me, Rummie set it up so that ADC/NORAD were acting like the infamous "three monkeys" when they were dealing,or not dealing, with evil.
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The transcript of the NBC interview uses the term "runaway plane" but the controllers describe clearing all flights from 30,000 feet down to the ground
along a large air corridor, near Syracuse New York and the 174th Fighter Wing, which sounds like they though it was pretty serious. Hijacking was not the issue at that point, a mid air collison was.
NORAD may not have known flight route data but a turn directly toward
them and shutdown of transponder by a large jet would indicate something unusual
was occurring , and if a "war game" were actually under way you would think they would be looking for exactly this kind of anomaly. All the scrambling of other aircraft to get out of the way would be visible on radar even if Flight 11 itself were not.
Flight 11 stayed heading directly toward NEADs and the Utica JSS radar for more than ten minutes at about 500 miles an hour so at some point it should have aroused concern just by it's bizarre actions and the failure to send up any jets, armed or not, to check it out for all this time is one of the big mysteries.
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Pinnacle...a few points...
10-4 on "runnaway plane" used by mejor corporate media...most likely a "civilian reporter" term...not used much in our system...
Again, please do not forget the EARLY actions taken by ZBW control personnel...they KNEW trouble was in the air...
ABSOLUTELY...the controllers worked with their brothers and sisters high and low to get all the aircraft that they were controlling the hell out of the way of this target THAT THEY WERE STILL TRACKING...and...BTW...using to computer to "point out" AA11 to chosen sectors.
What this "point out" computer action does is to send ALL the information about a tracked flight [target and alpha-numeric data block] to whatever sector they felt it pertinent to send to...IE: ALB and SYR low. There would be a follow-up inter-sector communications [that is not released] between high and low with a viable explanation...for which the "low" guys didn't need too much info about...because they ALL know what to do...
Believe it or not, there is very, very little target cvalue in the NORAD/NEADS facilities on the ground...consequently, I'd be very, very surprised if there were any concern whatsoever about AA11 heading at or toward them...doesn't matter.
Sharp ADC/NORAD controllers would have picked up a lengthy transponder failure of AA11, but that happens sometime...ie: when a code is changed in the cockpit right when the radar sweep hits the transponder antenna, or a switch to standby, or other stuff. ADC/NORAD see but don't react toformerly "friendlies...[which AA11 was]...unless drawn to the aircraft by FAA/ATC.
It is possible that part of the ADC/NORAD protocol is to "look for" civilian aircraft turning into "foes"...and I don't have any feel for that...except for its severe complexities...better to use "computer generated targets" in lieu of pulling some fighters alongside an airliner. Now isn't that paradoxical?
There is no way that ADC/NORAD would have any idea that the flight paths of any targets that they are monitoring in the upstate area were being "moved out of the way" for AA11. This is because aircraft are going anywhere and everywhere every day, in all sorts of directions...and ADC/NORAD just looks at them as either "friendly or foe"...and NOT wether or not they are "on or off" course...because they do not know what their flight plans are in the first place!
There is a major westbound J route just south of Griffiss and ADC/NORAD see traffic all over the place...especially if there is chop, rerouted traffic or T storms. These are not likely that day...but...ADC/NORAD is not gonna panic cause someone is flying overhead. Besides, IF AA11 was headed for Griffiss for real, ATC/FAA would give tem a shout...just like they did the low altitude sectors in the area. That's what controllers do.
As you know by now, I certainly have no mystery as to why interceptors were not sent up to do what they do...its because Rummie's military was purposefully distracted, protocols were deliberately changed, phone calls were NOT answered, and there were several "plants or moles" in the various facilities, civilian and military, to keep communications nil and confusion high.
Inside job brother or sister...
Love, Peace and Progress...
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Here is a link to the interview with air controllers of Flight 11.
Once again it creates the impression that only a "hijack" situation justified calling NORAD,
but assistance to aircraft in distress was part of their mission so the question remains why a
flight of such concern to controllers did not motivate a call for visual inspection by NORAD/
First Air Force when the 174th had F-16s based in the area.
The same applies to Flight 175 which should have gotten a much faster response but apparently got none. Otis scrambled at 8:45 so their was 21 minutes to intercept Flight 175 and
by that point NORAD knew what to look and listen for. Yet no effort was made to inspect Flight 175 when it was not far from the Otis jets and had been switching it's transponder signal.
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QUOTE (Robin Hordon @ Dec 2 2006, 03:53 PM)
My name is Robin Hordon and I'm a ex air traffic controller and pilot who, when working for the FAA, was certified/used to breakdown both audio tapes and radar readouts of aircraft involved in "incidents" in need of investigation. I am qualified to speak to this subject except that I have no direct understanding how about the military/NORAD radar establishes altitude on a primary target........
Thank you, Robin Hordon, not only for answering my question, but also for the great post you've made with all you have presented.
Excellent information!
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Syracuse and the 174th were mentioned here, so I will chime in with something that I noticed in the week of July 4th, 2001 when I flew into Hancock. Some strange things happened on this particular trip. I had an instructor with me because I was trying to get signed off on the Saratoga. We made the both legs of the trip under a VFR flight plan to log hours and pick up my family.
On landing in Syracuse, I noticed that there was a lot of activity in the hangar at the 174th. Planes were still parked with canopies open. By the time we parked at exec air, those planes were taking off in formation, which made it very hard to communicate with the ground crew. We loaded up with fuel, passengers and were off again without incident. I'm flying VFR, on a flight plan, talking to ATC.
Some cumulus clouds were ahead of us over Canada, so I began to turn 5 degrees when ATC (Cleveland Center) called to ask what exactly we thought we were doing. She was somewhat terse. We explained the situation and they told us to keep them informed of any changes from then on. I asked the instructor if that seemed unusual, and he said 'definitely'.
In 2002, people argued that the reason none of the fighters were able to stop the planes, was because they were too far away and would take them too long to scramble to reach the planes. I think my experience that day, along with the knowledge that we had warnings in the months prior shows that argument is ridiculous. Those planes went from having no pilots in their seats to in the air in just a few minutes.
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Has anyone here ever plotted out the ATC transcript for AAL11, as released in the NY Times on a chart? I did it in the summer of 2005 on the boat out of sheer curiosity.
Several hundred cups of coffee and a few days later.....
See: "NEED RADAR HOLE FLIGHT PATH PICTURE SANS DRONE FLIGHTS"
AAL11 seems to be the Achilles heel in the entire "official theory."
I'd call it "the official conspiracy theory" but most people wouldn't know the elements of the Inchoate crime of Conspiracy if they were pissing on them; legally speaking of course.
Quint "Jesus H. Christ chief."
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Hi Dr. Frascino,
I hope you're doing well! I think you're AWESOME!
It's summer and as expected, I'm sure you'll be overwhelmed with mosquito related questions; so I apologize in advance.
Most of the mosquito transmission questions in your archives relate to acquisition risk involving blood transfer from one person to another via feeding. Im not concerned about this as I understand that theres not enough HIV particles left on the insects mouthparts to transmit the disease (Ive learnt this from your amazing forum)!!!
Heres my question. A mosquito flew into my eye yesterday! Now if a fully engorged mosquito containing HIV blood flew into my eye would this be a mode of transmission seeing that the eye is a mucous membrane? Or would there be an insufficient amount of HIV particles?
Im just scared and am looking for information and Im hoping that you can provide me with some insight so that I can put this matter to rest.
Thank, you Thank, you Thank, you!
Here we go again, the ultimate QTND (question that never dies) rises to life once again! (See below.)
Just to anticipate other questions about mosquitos with inept flying skills, let's set the record straight. Whether the mosquito flies into your eye or mouth or into your love canal while getting a Brazilian wax or up your butt while taking a poop, the HIV-acquisition risk remains the same: nonexistent. And I should mention that unless you find a mosquito big enough to have unsafe sex with, the HIV-transmission risk from mosquitos, no matter what they do, is nonexistent! End of story! (Well probably not, but at least end of story until the next mosquito worrier writes in.)
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$100 question! (MOSQUITO, 2009) Apr 18, 2009
please i know qtnd, but i need to hear you tell me for my own story. I'm terribly worried and willing to offer $100 for your guidance! I went into a public restroom, and sat on the toilet (i'm female) without a seat cover. as i got up i noticed i had sat right on a mosquito!! i looked at my backside and saw blood from the mosquito on me!! is there a risk from HIV if the mosquito bit a person before me that had HIV then I sat and squashed the thing?
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Response from Dr. Frascino
Absolutely no risk whatsoever! See below.
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I will add an additional $40 to my original "QTND with a Twist..." Apr 18, 2009
Please explain this, or so that I understand it. It seems as though it's contradicting what you and others on this site say about HIV and mosquito. Here is a quote from another website
"If the mosquito takes a partial blood meal from an HIV positive person and resumes feeding on a non-infected individual, insufficient particles are transferred to initiate a new infection. If a fully engorged mosquito with HIV positive blood is squashed on the skin, there would be insufficient transfer of virus to produce infection. The virus diseases that use insects as agents of transfer produce tremendously high levels of parasites in the blood. The levels of HIV that circulate in human blood are so low that HIV antibody is used as the primary diagnosis for infection."
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Response from Dr. Frascino
Actually it's not contradicting what I or others on this site have said whatsoever! In fact it supports our emphatic statements that mosquitoes do not transmit HIV! The key word in the first sentence is "insufficient!" It states if a mosquito bites an HIVer and then bites an HIV-negative person, there would be "insufficient," (as in "not enough"), HIV to initiate a new infection.
The second sentence involves squashing a mosquito filled with HIV-positive blood. Once again it states "there would be INSUFFICIENT transfer of virus to produce infection." In other words no HIV transmission!
The final sentence helps explain the mechanism. It states the levels of HIV in human blood are extremely low. This is by comparison to other illnesses that mosquitoes can transmit, malaria for example.
So hopefully you can see we are all in agreement. Mosquitoes can not and do not transmit HIV. No way. No how.
Dr. Bob
QTND with a twist. Not in archives!! Apr 18, 2009
So I have read that you cannot get HIV from a mosquito bite, but here's a NEW question, unlike your usual insect bite q&a.
I was at the park for a bday party, amosquito landed on my bare leg and I smacked my hand on top of my leg to kill it. Now it didn't bite me, but i squashed it right on my leg and it left blood all on that spot!!!
Could this be a higher risk since I know that after a mosquito bites someone, it doesn't bite another till it digests and any or if HIV blood got into the insect it would have died within the time of digestion, since it only lives outside it's host for a limited time...BUT in my case it could have JUST bitten an HIV infected person and came to my leg to digest and "rest" since it didn't bite me and then I squashed it right on my leg where blood squirted out. The spot where it landed was where I had razor bumps that had previously been bleeding. The spot of blood was about as big as a single rice crispy cereal piece. (Sorry that's all I could compare it to). So if there was HIV blood and it landed on my open cut/bump would there be a risk? If not, could you explain why?
I will donate $40 and my husband will donate another $40. I looked through all archives and can't find a thing! Thank you Doctor Bob!! We love you!
Response from Dr. Frascino
Just like clockwork, as soon as the weather begins to warm up and folks begin to spend more time outside, BAM Dr. Bob gets a slew of mosquito questions! Mosquito-HIV transmission has become the ultimate QTND (question that never dies!). See below for a small sampling of what's in the archives.
Your HIV risk from smashing a blood-filled mosquito on your leg is exactly zero! That's right: zip, nada, nothing, bupkis! There is a technical scientific explanation why this is the case, but it's rather tedious. It involves what happens to HIV once it leaves the human host and enters the mosquito. In addition there would not be enough HIV to cause an infection via this route. Please note we've been monitoring HIV for over 27 years. This question has been studied from every possible angle. Mosquitoes don't' transmit HIV. Period. Can you just trust me (and 27 years of hard scientific epidemiological data) on this???
Thanks for your donation to the Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation (www.concertedeffort.org).
Be well. Stop worrying about squashed mosquitoes!
Dr. Bob
Fresh Blood Jan 5, 2009
Dr Bob,
I know you will say that this is the question that never dies (as I have checked the archives) but I think this is a littl bit different.
I had a huge mosquito on my arm. I went to brush it away and upon doing it quite a large amount of blood smeared across my arm.
I am worried that I could get infected as 1: the blood was very fresh
2: At the time I was picking roses in a rose garden and had pricked myself on rose thorns on my arms and fingers.
I am very worried about this and would like to get tested. Would the window period be 3 months or 6 months as it was a blood exposure and the risk of HCV coinfection could extend the window period?
Please reply - I hope you dont see this as just another stupid mosquito question.
Response from Dr. Frascino
You are absolutely correct! I am indeed going to say this is a QTND (question that never dies), which has an ATNC (answer that never changes!). Mosquitoes do not transmit HIV. Period. Unless, of course, you find one big enough to have unsafe sex with. HIV and/or HCV testing is not warranted.
Dr. Bob
risk? Jun 15, 2008
Dear Dr. Rob: I was at the beach and was bitten by a moskito. I killed it and it left a big drop of blood on my left arm near the elbow. I looked around and found many girls around. Almost no men. The girls were around 20-25 years old. 3 of them were very skinny. I am sure that the moskito transferred their blood to me. What would be my chance of getting HIV from this exposure? I read in your archives that a risk of transferring HIV from a woman to man is 5:10000. I repeat that there were almost no men on the beach, at least not at the visible proximity. I thank you very much for your reply because this exposure drives me crazy. Should I wait a 3 month mark for being tested? Thanks again. Bill
Response from Dr. Frascino
The mosquito (or, as you call it, "moskito") question yet again?????? Can you hear me pounding my head into the keyboard yelling "No, not again, not 26 years into the epidemic? People can't really still be worried about mosquito transmission!" Dude, the chances you could contract HIV from a mosquito are exactly the same as Britney Spear's chances of becoming a nun, OK? See below.
Dr. Bob
hiv from mosquito (MOSQUITO) Jan 29, 2008
I am really worried about hiv from mosquito 1 how long the virus stay in mosquito if mosquito blood falls on open cut or wound 2.if mosquito get entered into your stomach
3.how long the virus in blood stay outside the body
Thanks and Regards
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello Saveen,
And once again the mosquito question rises up! The ultimate and original QTND (question that never dies).
See below.
Dr. Bob
Mosquitoes & HIV Jan 19, 2008
Hi Doc,
Can HIV be transmitted through mosquitoes?? There seem to be plenty in my locality these days. Some of them are really big - in fact, when I squash them then my hands are stained with blood. Is there even a remote possibility that we can get HIV through mosquitoes.
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello Humpy!
Oh no! Not the mosquito question again? Twenty-six years into the HIV/AIDS pandemic and you're still wondering about mosquito transmission???? This was the original QTND (question that never dies) from a quarter of a century ago! That you are still wondering about it today means one of the following:
You've been in a coma for the past 26 years and just recently woke up.
You are an extraterrestrial who just teleported from the former planet Pluto to Earth.
You've been home schooled.
Our HIV awareness and prevention programs suck (and not in a good way).
All of the above.
OK Mr. or Ms. Clueless, one last time: Yes, HIV can be transmitted via mosquitoes! However, in order for this to occur you'll need to find one who is HIV positive and large enough to have unsafe sex with, OK?
Dr. Bob
self-infected with mosquito while masturbating? Jan 22, 2007
hello doctor, i desperately need your help. Very recently when i was masturbating i killed a mosquito with my right hand and i might have contacted with the blood of the mosquito. Then with the same right hand i touched my penis and possibly urethra and then ended up with sticky fingers. Considering that the mosquito is infected with HIV is there any possibility of me getting infected with the same??
Response from Dr. Frascino
Let me try to clarify this issue once and for all:
Chance of acquiring HIV from masturbation = nonexistent.
Chance of acquiring HIV from a mosquito (squished or otherwise) = nonexistent
Chance of acquiring HIV from masturbation and a squished mosquito = nonexistent x nonexistent which is nonexistent squared, OK?
Dr. Bob
dealing with true weirdos Feb 8, 2007
I live in CA and even here, we have so many ignorant people. At my workplace I have heard so many pathetic fears expressed. The infamous mosquito conspiracy being most common. Most recently, someone at my workplace expressed great anger that an HIVer sat at the same dinner table as he without disclosing his status. When pressed on this issue, this 'Christian' went further to say he feels confinement is appropriate for HIVers.
When I read your forum, I enjoy your humor when dealing with such issues. When I encounter such issues in real life, I get pissed off! I would prefer to choose humor if I could.
How do you do it? Or, are you more human than I give you credit for and it pisses you off sometimes?
Thanks for your service Dr. Bob....
Response from Dr. Frascino
The writer Paul Rudnick expressed it best when he wrote, "Only money, rage, and science can conquer AIDS. But only laughter can make the nightmare bearable." When confronting HIV/AIDS or even HIV/AIDS ignorance and stigma, I use "all of the above" money, rage, science and laughter.
So for your "extra chromosome Christian," my comments would best be summed up by a T-shirt I saw on a muscle stud at my gym earlier this evening. It read: "So many rightwing Christians. So few lions."
I tend to think Christian-guy will have a rude awakening when he arrives at the Pearly Gates.
Finally, I assure you I'm very, very human!
Dr. Bob
HIV Mosquitos Jul 27, 2004
Hello, whoever is answering this question.. I'm 14 years old and have a LOT of worries.. So I have two questions!! Here's the first: Can you get HIV from swallowing a mosquito that sucked blood from a person who has it? (I swallowed some sort of bug while running through my yard today, and it's causing me to FREAK OUT ALOT!) and second, have you read It happened to Nancy? That book is SOOOOO SAD!! If you haven't you should, I mean you being an expert on HIV/AIDS and all. It's about a girl who's my age who get's HIV/AIDS and dies from it... I CRIED FROM IT!! OKay please answer ASAP so I can sleep well, knowing I didn't catch anything.. LISA
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello Lisa,
First off, let me assure you that you cannot contract HIV from mosquitoes not be getting bitten by them nor by biting (and swallowing) them!!! Next, no, I haven't read "It Happened to Nancy" yet, but I'm glad you did. I encourage you to talk about what you've learned with your family and friends. HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention education are essential for everyone.
You might be surprised to learn that not only am I an HIV/AIDS expert, but that I, too, have HIV disease. I contracted the virus while performing a medical procedure on a patient in January 1991. Today there are 40 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS.
Don't be afraid of HIV. Just learn about HIV and the relatively simple ways to protect yourself, and you'll stay well. Now go to bed and get some sleep! It's way past your bedtime!
Dr. Bob


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Piano Professional (Autumn 2012)I smiled upon reading the potted biography of Paolo Baioni, who was expelled from his local school of music but went on to study in Bologna and Salzburg with rather better success. Baioni has since published works for piano and for various combinations of wind instruments, and Hands of Children was subsequently published in 2011 ... it would appear to be music evocative of certain child-like emotions and experiences, although some rather more grown-up motivations are also contained, and viewed in this way the music has much charm and potential to succeed ... Baioni's balance between musical effect and notation has been well conceived, especially in 'Your old blue eyes', 'A berceuse for an unborn child' and 'Sleeping', each of which are scored on a single stave and would be perfectly playable by junior level pianists ... For students not put off by atonality, there is much in store in this music. (Mark Tanner)


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As you can probably tell from the title of this post, I am angry. Livid. With small twitches in my extremities that can only be stilled by breaking something. Unfortunately, I'm pretty happy with the things in my office, so the twitching will have to subside naturally.
[Warning: The following was written in anger. While Brian generally avoids excess profanity in his blog, he doesn't here. He revels in it. If strong language offends you, dear reader, consider checking back in later for the next installment, which will undoubtedly be cleaner.]
So I just got off the phone with a customer service representative for VistaPrint named Kevin. (Which kinda bothers me because I have a good friend named Kevin.) Thought I doubt that's his real name, Kevin, I can tell you, is an asshole. And as you would expect from a grade A prick, he's horrible when it comes to customer service. Here's an example of the exchange that will cause VistaPrint to lose my business from this day forward.
Kevin the Prick: Hi, what can I help you with?
Angry Brian: Hi, I'm calling because the replacement order for my business cards never arrived. The one I ordered several months ago. And in fact, I'm looking at your website, and it says my order was canceled! I never got any notification of it being canceled, which is fucking ridiculous.
Kevin the Prick: [With attitude] Excuse me?
Angry Brian: [Ignoring attitude, more irritated] The replacement order I put in forever-ago was canceled. I didn't cancel it. I wasn't notified that it was canceled. I've been waiting forever.
Kevin the Prick: OK, if we can proceed without the swear words I can help you.
You know what Kevin? Fuck you and fuck your company. Customer service is of paramount importance, especially when things don't go as planned. I think it goes without say you never, ever correct a customer. Especially an angry customer. And especially not when you're all saddled-up on your high-horse. I don't care if you wince. I don't care if you shudder. I don't care if you're offended. And I don't care if I was overly aggressive and a prick myself when spoke to you. You don't correct a fucking customer. That's right, "fucking". Because you know what, when you do that, you lose a customer. You Kevin, you lost VistaPrint all my future business. Congratulations. I'm sure VistaPrint doesn't mind the costs of my lost business to ensure your ears a G-rated work day.
What makes the whole thing even more asinine is I was using the word "fucking" in the exchange as an adjective; a description of how ridiculous the situation was, not as a verbal assault against Captain Pricktastic. (Who is probably illiterate and the progeny of a lonely goat herder and his smelly flock.) That sort of swearing is even allowed on the radio these days, thanks to Bono's televised slip at an award show a few years back.
So you as the reader, are probably thinking "Brian! Don't say anything until you actually get your order! You won't get it for sure now!" You know what, you're probably right. But I don't care. This is at least the third time I've had to contact them with regard to this order, and I have very, very low expectations of ever receiving it. Here's the time line as it sits presently:
March '07: Flawed business cards ordered (part my mistake, part theirs).
April '07: Flawed cards arrive.
May '07: Notice problems, which includes embarrassing spelling error, and re-order. (Have to pay a small additional fee for re-order, since it was partially my fault. Fine. Again stuck with 21 day shipping time frame. Fine.)
June '07: Stumble on a confirmation email, and realize I never got these cards. Email customer service. Never get a reply. (I think I sent a second email, but no response to that either.)
July 13th '07: Stumble on that forgotten confirmation email again. Check the website only to discover my order was canceled. Call Kevin the CSR clown and get pissed.
Some people reading this might also think I'm the one being a prick. Yep, that's very likely. I was an angry customer. That was my role. They have my money, I didn't receive the goods. I'd been screwed, and I wanted satisfaction. The CSR's job was to talk me down with apologies (which are generally only a formality, but an appreciated one) and promises to rectify the situation followed with decisive action.
How do I know all this? I'm a I.T. consultant and I dabble with selling things on eBay. In both scenarios, you have to deal with people who are pissed from time to time. Just this week, an eBay customer failed to read my thorough auction write up (if you've read my cigar reviews, you know I'm thorough) and sent a livid email to me to tell me how unacceptable an item was. An item that he paid 50 cents for. The flaws were documented in both text and pictures, but instead of correcting him, I apologized.
Yep, that's right. I was clearly right, he was clearly wrong. (And I think we both knew it.) But I asked him what I could do to make the situation right. You know what? It worked out beautifully. I got very positive feedback from him, and while I lost a little money on the item (I got to keep most of the shipping expenses), this customer would probably buy from me again! That's customer-fucking-service, Kevin! Get your thumb out of your ass and grab a damn note pad!
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A kinesiology major, Nelson finished 31st among nearly 300 runners at the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional this past November.
Both Hope teams were also presented the association's All-Academic Team award. For a team to be considered for the All-Academic Team award, they must have competed and compiled a team score at an NCAA Regional Meet. The team must also have a minimum 3.10 team cumulative grade point average (GPA). The Flying Dutch achieved a 3.40 GPA while the Flying Dutchmen had a 3.10 GPA.
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- Rokas, A. and P. Abbot. 2009 Harnessing genomics for evolutionary insights. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24:192-200.
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