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The Second of a Two-Part Series on Clean Energy (Part 1)
June 14, 2011, 12:00 -1:30 PM
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This year, the term "clean energy" has been used with increasing frequency and prominence in policy-making circles. Some look to clean energy to satisfy the nation's fuel and power needs, while improving the environment. Others see an opportunity for the United States to lead the world in innovating technical solutions, growing new industries and creating jobs. There is significant opportunity across the technological spectrum, with activity underway in university incubators and spin-off companies, programs at major technology companies, venture capital funding, community and state initiatives.
The first briefing in this two-part series examined the sustainability of clean energy options for electricity generation. This briefing will highlight perspectives on the technologies and financing of clean energy innovation today.
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- "Federal Policies for Renewable Electricity: Impacts and Interactions," January 2011
- "Combining Policies for Renewable Energy: Is the Whole Less Than the Sum of Its Parts?" Fischer C. and Preonas, L., International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2010, 4:51-92.
- "Toward a New National Energy Policy: Assessing the Options: Executive Summary," RFF and NEPI, September 2010
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Barrow-downs or Tyrn Gorthad were a series of low hills east of the Shire, behind the Old Forest, and west of the village of Bree. Many of the hills were crowned with megaliths and barrows, whence their name.
The Barrow-downs were first inhabited by Men related to the Edain in the First Age, together with the Hills of Evendim to the north. They fled east as Easterlings invaded Eriador and passed on to Beleriand, but after these had left or been killed in the War of Wrath the Edain returned to their old homes.
During the Second Age they were fairly numerous, and when they met with the Númenóreans the Barrow-downs were the first places where the Dúnedain emigrees from Númenor settled. When Elendil returned to Middle-earth, the Barrow-downs were incorporated in the kingdom of Arnor.
After the split of Arnor the Barrow-downs became the capital of Cardolan. After Rhudaur fell to Angmar, the Dúnedain of Cardolan entrenched themselves here, but eventually the realm fell. The Barrow-wights were now sent there by the Witch-king. After Arthedain once again claimed the kingship over all of Arnor the Dúnedain tried to recolonize Cardolan, but this failed because of the Barrow-wights.
During the War of the Ring Frodo Baggins and company were trapped in the downs by a wight, probably in the same cairn which held the grave of the last prince of Cardolan. They were rescued by Tom Bombadil, and there got their swords.
In topography, a "down" is a low-lying hill, from the Anglo-Saxon dún meaning "hill".[1] In the United Kingdom, a down is a gently-rolling chalk hill in Southern England (seen especially in the North and South Downs).[2]
A "barrow" (or "berrow"; from English beorg, berg, 'hill, mound') not to be confused with the wheeled vehicle, is a tumulus or other prehistoric grave-mound.[3]
Tyrn Gorthad was the Sindarin name of the Barrow-downs. Tyrn Gorthad is a compound of torn ("burial mound") and gorthad ("of buried").[4] In one manuscript, the name Tyrn Goerthaid was used by Tolkien.[5]
Portrayal in adaptations
2002: Vivendi's The Fellowship of the Ring:
- Hobbits' passage through Barrow-Downs is represented by a respective level.
2007: The Lord of the Rings Online:
- The Barrow-downs are a divided into North and South Barrows, depicted as a series of mounds crowned with megaliths. The region is inhabited by wraiths, recently stirred by the passage of the Nazgul. The largest and oldest barrow is called Othrongroth.
2011: The Lord of the Rings: War in the North:
- After Halbarad sends Eradan, Andriel and Farin to warn Aragorn in Bree, the three heroes travel through the Barrow-downs as a short cut.[6] On their way, they have to save two Dunedain Rangers named Luin and Cilaran. In the whole level fog hangs above the ground.[7]
- ↑ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller, "DÚN" at An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (accessed 12 October 2010)
- ↑ Oxford Dictionaries, "down" (accessed 12 October 2010)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" in Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 766
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 116
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "The Heirs of Elendil"
- ↑ Offical Xbox Magazine Online, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, dated 28 April, 2011 (accessed at 7 July, 2011)
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: War in the North's Official Site, Videos, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North - Dev video: Art Direction Process, dated 11 May, 2011 (accessed 14 September, 2011)


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If I was Nikki Finke, this headline would probably have a big 'TOLDJA!' in it, because I'm pretty sure I predicted Avatar would be the next big trend among furries, LARPers, and assorted obsessed weirdos. Now that the Avatar forums (here and here) have heated up, it appears we may have as much fun with Avatards as we did with Twihards. More, even. Avatards are like Twihards' older, computer programming cousins. Some of the highlights:
"I cant stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers i got from it. I even contemplate suicide thinking that if i do it i will be re birthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in Avatar.."
"I've had the exact same feeling after I first saw Avatar– the sick realization that Pandora isn't real- and trying anything to just escape this reality and live there instead, even trying to put myself into a coma so my dream world would be Pandora."
"My urge to be a Na'vi is probably the strongest thing I have ever felt, and also the reality that it will likely never happen. Of course being able to link up with nature, or fly on your own personal dragon-bird is cool, but I want to be a Na'vi for more than that. I've pretty much given up all hope in the human race…"
"The only reason it is so easy to be that way on Pandora is because of the tsahaylu that Eywa provides to all creatures. (And even there you still have to watch out for the viperwolves)."
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"What will our money buy, when everything that is worth having is destroyed? The only way you can fill the emptiness you feel after this movie, is to jump on the leonopteryx."
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Lewis Hamilton led another strong McLaren performance during the final practice session for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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Mark Webber was fourth quickest, 0.6s slower than Hamilton having been well over a second adrift on the medium tyres. While the majority of the teams found a lot of time, Hamilton was only able to improve by 0.018s when he put on the soft tyres.
Fifth quickest was Nico Hulkenberg, ahead of Romain Grosjean, and Pastor Maldonado - the only other drivers to get within a second of Hamilton's best time.
Fernando Alonso was eighth quickest and 0.05s ahead of Kimi Raikkonen, who was baulked late on by a slow moving Webber approaching the final corner. Ferrari continued to be adrift of the ultimate pace, with Felipe Massa 11th and over 1.3s slower than Hamilton.
Track temperature peaked at 45C and air temperature never dropped below 30C during the session, meaning not too much can be read in to the times as qualifying and the race take place in very different conditions at dusk.


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W. Norwood Brigance, a Wabash College professor of 38 years, was named one of the most recent recipients of the "Distinguished Scholar in Communication" award by the National Communication Association.
The National Communication Association began awarding "Distinguished Scholars" in 1992. "It's sort of like a Hall of Fame for Communication," said McDorman. "They induct up to four people each year and only one of which can be deceased." Only those who have been honored as a Distinguished Scholar can nominate someone to receive the prestigious award.
"I think one of the things the recognition shows is that Brigance is a figure who had a great deal of influence on the development of speech and rhetoric as a discipline in the United States," said McDorman. Brigance's writings and speeches are still studied today throughout high schools and higher education institutions including Wabash College.
Although his time at Wabash was supposed to be short-lived, William Norwood Brigance began his long and influential career at Wabash College in 1922. He continued his teaching, speaking, and writing at Wabash until his death in January 1960.
Throughout his career he published many articles and books, delivered speeches, and served as the vice-president and later president of the Speech Association of America, the organization later renamed the National Communication Association.
Born in 1896, Brigance set out to become a history teacher. At the young age of 15, he entered the University of South Dakota even though he had not attended high school. He graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1916.
After teaching high school for a few years and spending a few more in the Army during World War I, Brigance was offered his first college-level position teaching Speech at Wabash College in 1922. He spent many summers teaching at colleges and universities all over the country and was offered full-time positions at several other institutions, yet he chose to spend his career at the small all-male liberal arts institution in Crawfordsville.
The Brigance Forum Fund at Wabash was born from generous donations from Brigance's family, friends, and students after his passing. With the funds, the College's Department of Rhetoric is able to host the Brigance Forum, a public lecture or debate, annually. In addition, it will hold the second Brigance Colloquy in the spring of 2009. The first Brigance Colloquy held in 2005 included 14 prominent scholars who converged on campus to discuss issues of rhetoric and democracy – a topic Brigance himself was very concerned about during and after World War II.
An outgrowth of the first Brigance Colloquy is the soon-to-be published book Rhetoric in Democracy: Essays in the Tradition of W. Norwood Brigance edited by current Wabash professors of rhetoric, David Timmerman, Ph.D. and Todd McDorman, Ph.D. The introductory chapter was written by Martin Medhurst, Ph.D. of Baylor University. It was Medhurst who nominated Brigance for the "Distinguished Scholar" award.
Coincidently, Brigance was honored at the National Communication Association Convention in Chicago on November 17 – the 111th anniversary of his birth.


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Science academies from around the globe recently issued joint statements to call world leaders' attention to the role science, technology, and innovation can play in the pursuit of sustainable development, and to raise their awareness of the emerging threat of drug resistance in infectious agents including tuberculosis. The "G-Science" statements are intended to inform government leaders attending the G8 Summit this month and other international gatherings later this year.
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- The second statement, Drug Resistance in Infectious Agents, highlights the steady rise worldwide of untreatable tuberculosis infections, and Enterobacteria, a common bacterial infection spread in hospital settings that has recently become resistant to "last-resort antibiotics
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It seems inevitable that Cristiano Ronaldo is set to leave Real Madrid, but where will he end up? You could count on one hand the amount of teams that would be able to afford the transfer fee, never mind the wages for the Portuguese winger.
Firstly Paris Saint-Germain, with their newly acquired wealth from the far east, the French capital would be a perfect match for Ronaldo and his glamorous lifestyle. They are definitely one of the few teams able to match player and club's demands financially.
PSG would also have the luxury of being able to offer him Champions League football. The project they have going on at the Parc des Princes is an exciting one and could be appealing to Ronaldo.
Another option for Ronaldo would be to stay at the Santiago Bernabeu. His relationship with Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho is on-off and whether Mourinho will even be at Real Madrid come the end of the season is questionable.
However, Ronaldo is adored in the Spanish capital and fits perfectly in their ethos. Whether he would want to leave and have to settle in somewhere else is also questionable.
The most unlikely of the options for Ronaldo would be to go to Manchester City. A former Manchester United player himself and still loved by Old Trafford fans, Ronaldo would find it hard to go to his former club's biggest rivals.
Again, City are one of the few clubs able to afford Ronaldo but this would be the most unlikely of destinations for the 27-year-old.
Finally, there is Ronaldo's former club Manchester United. He was a hero in Manchester amongst the Red Devils fans. Rio Ferdinand described Ronaldo as like a "pet" to Sir Alex Ferguson.
Theres no doubt that Ronaldo loves Manchester United still and when Real Madrid and his former employers meet in the Champions League next month we will get an indication to what the United fans think of him.
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by Sue Ann Rybak
J.McLaughlin, a "classic American" clothing store, is scheduled to open on Friday, Nov. 16 at 8401 Germantown Ave.
"We're happy to continue our expansion into Pennsylvania with our second store in the state," Jay McLaughlin, co-founder of J.McLaughlin said in a statement. "Its central location in Chestnut Hill aligns perfectly with the classic American lifestyle concept that defines our brand. We're excited about the new developments in the area and we look forward to becoming an active member of this great community."
The retail store was founded in 1977 by brothers Kevin and Jay McLaughlin with a single shop on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
J.McLaughlin's clothing has been featured in such magazines as REDBOOK, MORE, HAMPTONS and ELLE. The store is known for its "classic American clothing" and "distinctive flair for color."
Residents are invited to check out their Fall/Winter 2012/2013 collections for women and men, along with a range of products for the holiday gift-giving season this weekend.
The Chestnut Hill location marks McLaughlin's 65th store in the United States.
Other recently opened locations include: Southport, Connecticut; Upper Arlington and Hudson, Ohio; Sanibel, Florida, and Atlanta, Georgia.


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Yesterday Fox News' Glenn Beck interviewed newly minted Fox "analyst" Sarah Palin for his entire show. During the interview, Beck asked Palin who her favorite Founding Father is. "You know, well, all of them because they came collectively together with…so much diversity in terms of belief but collectively they came together to form this union." "Bullcrap," Beck retorted. "Who's your favorite?" Palin then finally settled on George Washington because he "returned power to the people" and then "went back to Mount Vernon" to farm." Beck agreed:
PALIN: They were led by, of course, George Washington. So he's got to rise to the top. Washington was the consummate statesman. He served, he turned power to the people. He didn't want to be a king. He returned power to the people. Then he went back to Mount Vernon. He went back to his farm. He was almost reluctant to serve as president too and that's who you need to find to serve in government, in a bureaucracy — those who you know will serve for the right reasons because they're reluctant to get out there and seek a limelight and seek power. They're doing it for the people, that was George Washington.
BECK: He is my favorite for that reason as well.
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Palin's response to Beck recalls one of her most infamous moments of the 2008 campaign. She became the subject of scorn and ridicule when she responded to Katie Couric's question about which newspapers she reads by answering, "Um, all of them."


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The Parish
There was a parish in Ben Lomond, California, formerly within the Evangelical Orthodox Church, which came into the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America to constitute a parish in the Antiochian Evangelical Orthodox Mission.
This parish, numbering approximately 1500, was the largest of the AEOM. Some have estimated 200 to be in attendance at Saturday evening Vespers. This parish practised congregational singing.
The parish also supported a K-12 school, had a world class choir, a hospitality house for visitors, programs for teens and supported Conciliar Press.
The Crisis
It should be considered that this whole section has an 'allegedly' before each point.
The parish allowed an Athonite spiritual father to visit and to hear confessions, which reportedly achieved a higher level of prayer and fasting. The Archdiocese forbade any of its clergy or faithful to confess to a priest outside of the Church of Antioch.
The practise of the parish to have a complete round of daily services (Matins, Vespers and Liturgy) was allegedly considered bizarre and abnormal.
An edict was allegedly sent from the Archdiocese, demanding that all liturgical music be from the Archdiocese, prohibiting the Russian chant predominantly used by the parish.
A parish meeting was called, and the parish petitioned the Archbishop to transfer to the OCA. In response, the priest and his supporting clergy received a fax announcing their defrocking.
An appeal was lodged with an Antiochian trial council, with the priest and his supporting clergy excommunicated, some for a minimum of three years and others for a minimum of five years.
The building, property, school and bank accounts were seized by the Archdiocese. Contested in court, the Archdiocese retained all of the preceding.
The resolution
Again, mostly 'allegedly'.
Most parisioners were scattered and priestless; the remainder had not been the primary financial backing of the parish and couldn't support the church. The school was entirely abandoned, as were other things and programs, with property being sold.
The OCA received a large number of the faithful, on the condition of their silence on the matter, also forbidding other OCA clergy to discuss it.
The Jerusalem Patriarchate received the remainder of the faithful.
In response to both of the above, the Antiochian Archdiocese considered suspending communion with both the OCA and the Jerusalem Patriarchate.
The clergy were considered persona non grata for years, even after their excommunication ceased. Recently, these clergy were received back into the archdiocese.
To this day, there remains a watchfulness against parishes becoming too similar to the Ben Lomond parish.
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The "Pimp" Juice Conspiracy
Back in 2002, a rapper named Nelly released and album called Nellyville. With hits such as "Hot in Herre", "Dilemma", "#1 , "Air Force Ones", "Work It" and "Roc da Mic" this album was destined to be a hit. Nellyville debuted at number one on the billboard charts with 714,000 records sold and remained in the top spot for 4 weeks! But amongst all of the hits on this album, there was one in particular that stirred up a big fuss. The name of this song was "Pimp Juice". This song created an uproar in the African American community because of the way that it seemed to glorify the pimp and prostitute lifestyles. People felt that this (as well as other Nelly songs and underground videos) was perpetuating negative stereotypes about African Americans and degrading African American women.
To make matters worse, in late 2003, the Pimp Juice Energy Drink was released. This drink was/is to be commonly used as a mixer in various alcoholic beverages. Along with this drink came a lot of other products and apparel, including posters, headbands, hoodies, thong panties and T-shirts that say "I'm a PIMP". This caused an even bigger uproar! Groups like the National Black Anti-Defamation League, the Messianic Afrikan Nation and Project Islamic H.O.P.E. all banned together to call for a boycott of this drink. In 2004 students at Spellman college even protested a bone marrow drive (scheduled to be on the campus) that Nelly started to help his sister (who had been diagnosed with leukemia).
But I'm not here to talk about this energy drink (manufactured by Fillmore Street Brewery), because personally I always felt that there was way to much controversy surrounding Nelly's version of Pimp Juice. You see, the concept of a "Pimp" Juice is not a 5 ½ year old concept as most of us have been led to believe. "Pimp" juice has been around for decades upon decades, and we have all at one point or another drank some of it (knowingly or unknowingly). So where did this other "Pimp" Juice come from, and who is responsible for it?
Let us begin…
The Thule Society and the Chosen Pimp
We will start this story back in the early 1900's in a place called Germany. At the particular time, Germany was a democratic nation that lived by it's Constitution. Then, of course came a man named Adolf Hitler. Hitler was supposedly one quarter Jewish and was the grandson of a Rothschild (yes, the same ones that own the Federal Reserve Bank). In the year 1919 Hitler joined a secret society called "The Thule Society" under a man named Dietrich Eckhart. This society, which is similar to the society here in America called "Skull & Bones", was a branch of another society called The Illuminati. I'll talk more about Skull & Bones in another Blog. The Thule Society practiced a homoerotic sexual magic in their initiations (rituals). This form of sexual magic was popularized by a Masonic named Aleister Crowley, who according to J. Sydney Jones, Author of 'Hitler in Vienna,' "enjoyed playing with black magic and little boys"The Thule Society believed that these rituals allowed demonic forces to run through the initiate's body. According to Trevor Ravenscroft, author of "Spear of Destiny", Eckart initiated Hitler into "a monstrous sadistic magic ritual…after which he was sexually impotent" and that this had a psychological effect on Hitler that turned him into the sadistic man we all know.
But not only that, he also chose him to become the leader of something that ALL of the conspiracy theorist have been talking about, known as "THE NEW WORLD ORDER" saying, "Follow Hitler; he will dance, but it is I who have called the tune. I have initiated him into the secret doctrine, opened his centers in vision, and given him the means to communicate with the powers." (Trevor Ravenscroft, The Spear Of Destiny, p. 91).Even though the information and hype surrounding the New World Order started in the very early 90's with books such as "Behold A Pale Horse" by William Cooper, apparently Walt Disney must have known of this phenomenon back in the 40's. If you watch the short movie called Defurer's Face, you can see (around 1:20 in the clip) a mention of Hitler bringing "A World New Order". But anyway, let's move on.
The Trick-nological Plot To Pimp The Entire Globe
Hitler (as many NAZIs) worked his way up the political structure of Germany and was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Hitler had a plan to take over the world, but having a Constitution always seems to get in the way. Shortly after Hitler's appointment, Nazi storm troopers went to work. The storm troopers, led by a man named Karl Ernst, used the underground tunnel that connected Hermann Goring's (head of the storm troopers) residence with the cellar in the Reichstag (German version of our White House). They entered the building, scattered gasoline and incendiaries, and then hurried back through the tunnel. The Reichstag was set on fire. The Nazis had befriended a communist arsonist named Marinus Van der Lubbe. It is not known if the fire was lit by Van Der Lubbe or the Nazis, but it is known that Van der Lubbe and the communists were blamed in full for the event. Van der Lubbe was tried, convicted and beheaded.
You know, it's funny. False Flag Terrorism is the oldest trick in the book, yet it works every single time (Even for the Nazis who were disliked by many) Interestingly enough, just recently, this case was overturned in Germany. I guess the truth will always come to light. Anyway, after "finding out" about this fire Hitler became enraged and said that Germany had been soft for to long. Hitler also went to the offices of his newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, to oversee its coverage of the fire. He was up all night with Goebbels making up stories about how the Communists were planning to take over Berlin. Hitler then proposed the Reichstag Fire Decree. This Decree called for the Constitutional liberties to be suspended. Freedom of speech, assembly and press were all suspended. This decree also allowed for warrantless searches, and monitoring of phone calls and all other communication.
The Decree met little resistance from President Paul Von Hindenburg or anyone else. After all, Germany had to protect themselves from the terrorists, right?
The "Pimp" Juice Discovery
Once the Reichstag Fire Decree "for the protection of the people and the state" was signed into existence, Germany became a police state under the dictatorial power of Hitler. Immediately, NAZI troops raided the streets killing over a thousand Communists and Social Democrats. All anti-Nazi political activity as well and non-Nazi publications was shut down. The Nazi's didn't need anyone to distract the citizens from their enemies by suggesting that the fire may have been an "inside job". About a month later (on the 22nd of March), Hitler's first concentration camp was opened. It was called Dachau. Two days later the German parliament passed The Enabling Act which allowed Hitler to change and re-work the Constitution of Germany.
Shortly after, we see Jews, Blacks (which are often left out of the Holocaust story)[1][2], Homosexuals (called Pink Triangle Boys), Communists, Gypsies, Poles, Russians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Liberals, and disabled people being thrown into camps like Dachau, Buchenwald and Ravensbruck (for women).
But here is where the story gets REALLY interesting. You see now Hitler was trying to take over the world, so to make this easy, the Nazi scientists wanted to find the best way to "control" human behavior. This way they could rule over mass populations. So, not only did they throw all of these people in concentration camps, but they also started doing experiments on them.
Some of these holocaust experiments include: live vivisections, brainwashing by giving high doses of barbiturates and morphine, sterilization and castration, starvation, electroshock therapy, and much much more. Get a more extensive list HERE
But there was one experiment in particular, that was very fruitful. The scientists came up with a special chemical. This chemical, a "pimp" juice if you will, when given to a human in small amounts, would poison and narcotize their brain and make them extremely "passive". Then, they would be easy to rule over. With this special juice, the whole entire world could be pimped!
This juice was administered to the ghettos of Germany also. It worked very well. This pimp juice not only makes a person "dumb and docile", but it also shortens lifespan (which is good for population control).
Continuing this take over plot, in the late 30's we see Hitler stirring up propaganda accusing the Polish authorities of "planning" to carry out ethnic cleansing on the Germans who lived in Poland. According to Bradley Lightbody, Author of "The Second World War: Ambitions to Nemesis" On August 22nd, Hitler was quoted as saying "I shall give a propaganda reason for starting the war; whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked whether he told the truth!"
On August 30th 1939, the Gestapo (Nazi secret police) arrested a man named Franciszek Honiok, a German who was publically known for sympathizing with the Polish. The next night on August 31st a small group of German operatives, dressed in Polish uniforms seized the Gleiwitz station and broadcast a message declaring war on Germany in Polish. The Germans then brought in Honiok, dressed him up to look like a saboteur, killed him by lethal injection, shot him a few times and put him at the scene (making it look like he was killed while attacking the station).This incident (called the Gleiwitz Incident) was part of a larger project called Operation Himmler. This project (consisting of 21 different incidents) was carried out by Abwehr and SS forces to make it seem as if Poland hated Germany to the point of committing random terrorist acts.The next day Hitler invaded Poland and WWII began. He also made a speech at the Reichstag citing all 21 of the Operation Himmler incidents as justification for their "defensive" action against Poland.
But before The Germans invaded Poland, the German General Staff met with the Russian General Staff to exchange military ideas. It was at this time that the Russians were told about the pimp juice. They were then introduced to this conspiracy of mass control by "spiking" the drinking water with this magical serum.
The pimp juice worked BRILLIANTLY! Dictator Stalin, who was noted for saying, "He who votes decides nothing, … He who COUNTS the votes decide everything" found that by adding pimp juice to the drinking water at his prison camps, that he could actually reduce his guards by SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT! SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT??! WHOOA!! I guess Pimpin IS easy!!!
The Juice Bomb
Also around this time, the German scientists began to work on developing a Nuclear Bomb. And what was the main ingredient in it? Why of course… the pimp juice! This juice is some strong stuff! President Roosevelt got word of this from some scientists in America. They convinced Roosevelt to start a program to develop a nuclear bomb here in the U.S. This was called The Manhattan Project.The making of the nuclear bombs, was creating a toxic waste. This waste (pimp juice) was very expensive to dispose of. So, a few years later in 1943, we see the appointment of a special New York State Health Department committee to study the "advisability" of adding pimp juice to Newburgh's drinking water. Where would they get an idea like that? This study would be called the Newburgh Demonstration Project. The study would go from 1945-1956.
One of the major production places of the Manhattan Project was the E.I. DuPont de Nemours Company chemical factory in Deepwater, New Jersey. Workers were producing millions of pounds of this pimp juice in their quest to make the first atomic bomb.Now, at the time, the farms nearby in Gloucester and Salem counties were famous for their high-quality produce. There tomatoes were bought by the likes of Campbell's Soup and their peaches would go directly to the Waldorf Hotel in New York.
But in the summer of 1943, pollution incidents began to occur. Farmers started reporting that something was burning up there peach crops! According to the Farmers, ALL of the poultry died one night after a thunderstorm! The workers claimed that eating the produce sometimes led to all night vomiting! A teenager named Mildred Giordano claimed that the horses on the farm were to sick to work, and the cows were crippled and could only graze by crawling on their bellies!! The farmers had to give up their produce. They would eventually (right after the war) sue Du Pont and the Manhattan Project for damages. The federal government got wind of these reports and was concerned about a "threat" to its project.
My Goodness!! Pimp juice is OFF THE CHAIN!
Now, during the latter stages of WWII in 1945, while all of the other Nazis were being brought to justice for their wrongdoings, we see that the U.S. Government intelligence extracted the top German scientists (mainly the ones involved in the German Nuclear Project) into the U.S. under an operation called Project Paperclip (despite the fact that U.S. law explicitly prohibited former Nazi officials from immigrating into America). The justification was that if the U.S. didn't bring them in, that the Soviet Union would. In the next 10 years over 760 German scientists would be granted U.S. citizenship and have their records purged of ALL traces of their NAZI past, including Nazi party membership and the fact that they had experimented and tortured people in the concentration camps. Many of these human experiments still go on today! Look up MK-Ultra. A lot of them would move on to join parts of the US space/missile program including NASA. But anyway… on with the story.
This same year (1945), we see the atomic bomb scientists conjuring up evidence that would be "useful in litigation" against defense contractors for the injury to the farmers (due to the pimp juice). They began human studies. These studies were done under the code name Project F. At the same time Pimp Juice was added to Newburgh's water via The Newburgh Demonstration Project along with the help of the New York State Health Dept. to study its health effects on humans.
The New Jersey farmer lawsuits ended up being stymied because the government refused to release key evidence (how much "pimp" juice Du Pont had vented into the atmosphere during the war). They claimed that disclosing this would, "be injurious to the military security of the United States". So, the farmers had to settle for small token settlements. Project F and The Newburgh Demonstration Project continued. More evidence had to be obtained to stop future lawsuits!
Using the same Trick-nology that was used to claim that refined sugar is the same as the naturally occurring sugar in fruits and therefore not poisonous, the A-Bomb scientists from both projects and in tandem began to promote the idea that pimp juice is GOOD FOR CHILDRENS TEETH!! A few years later, we see that a propaganda campaign is launched by the Rockefeller Foundation to actually promote this pimp juice to the public!
This Trick-nology worked perfectly!! The unsuspecting people never knew what hit them. Then, starting in the fifties, The Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA), the worlds largest producer of pimp juice (since it is a by product of aluminum) sold the FDA and the government on the idea of BUYING this juice at a 20,000% markup and dumping it into the water AND injecting it into toothpastes and dental rinses!
Now… at this point you have probably figured out that this pimp juice is none other than….
Sodium Fluoride
So, what IS Sodium Fluoride? Well first, let's begin with what it is NOT! Calcium Fluoride is a substance that occurs naturally in water. Some claim that this has been shown to strengthen ones teeth. This is obviously more so because of the calcium (which is one of the main ingredients that make up teeth) than the fluoride. Fluoride is a WASTE product (just like petroleum in Vaseline and lip balms which is ALSO brought to you by the Rockefellers). It is a heavy metal. It is the most effective rat killer there is. Yes, Fluoride is Rat Poison! The artificial fluoride that is put in the water is extremely toxic (almost as toxic as arsenic)! That's why it says on your toothpaste, if you swallow more than used for brushing (which is not much) call a POISON CONTROL CENTER! Why? Because you just ingested POISON!
So if it's not good for teeth, what does it do? Here's a short list
- It causes skeletal and dental fluorosis
- It causes cancer
- It shortens life span
- It decreases fertility in males and females (it was used to make people sterile in the NAZI camps)
- It causes hypothyroidism
- It causes arthritis
- It takes 10-15 points off of your IQ. Ever wonder why we are so far behind academically compared to countries like Japan, India and China? Maybe it's because they don't fluoridate their water.
- It accumulates in the pineal gland and causes disruptions in melatonin production, and it also can lead to early puberty in children.
- Unlike HIV, fluoride (by attacking your DNA repair enzyme activities) can lead to AIDS!
But most importantly of all these, fluoride makes you passive, and submissive.
Passive People
It amazes me the stuff that our government can get away with. How can Bush sign into agreement the North American Union and no one cares? Why is it that the US Patented cure for AIDS is exposed and most people who know, won't even spread the word? They just say "umph umph umph. That's too bad". How did the Twin Towers get hit with two planes and fall down symmetrically?.. and 5 seconds later they knew Who did it, How they Did it, The Schools and Libraries they went to… and the next thing you know, we are in IRAQ for 5 years for WMD's? THEY AINT FOUND A SUPER SOAKER in IRAQ! Yet we ask no questions? The justification for this war is 1000 times as stupid as any before, including Vietnam. America was up in arms over that, so what is the difference between then and now? It's gotta be the pimp juice!
Many of the young ones have wondered, what is it that allowed the movements of the 60's and 70's to slowly die down. The passion is just not there anymore. Some have even gotten to the point of being upset with those who came before us, because now we must restart the revolution. But you can't be upset with them. They didn't know about the pimp juice that was deteriorating their minds and bodies over the years.Have you noticed how spaced out and passive some people are when they get on anti-depressants like Prozac (a.k.a. Fluoxetine)? Maybe it's because the JUICE is the main ingredient in them. It's also the main ingredient in a lot of tranquillizers.
So what is Fluoride? It's the ultimate Dumb-Downer. It's the Revolution Stopper. It's the Population Controller. It is truly bringing us into the New World Order Peacefully!! To those looking to start a revolution, Don't Sleep on Fluoride!
Charles Eliot Perkins, scientist and author of Washington DC in a letter abstracted from Fluoridation and Lawlessness (published by the Committee for Mental Health and National Security in 1954) stated:
"I say this in all earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years research into the chemistry, bio-chemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine: any person who drinks artificially fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person, mentally or physically."
So… Here we are ladies and gentlemen. Pimped out, Tricked out and most importantly Played out! Almost everywhere you go, the water is fluoridated. In the places that it is not, parents are encouraged to give their children fluoride supplements (a.k.a. PIMP TABLETS)!! Now, this aint the latest episode of "Pimps Up, Hos Down". So, my intention is not to leave you "out in the street" on this issue. So what can YOU do about it?
The best way that I know of to remove fluoride from your water is REVERSE OSMOSIS. Regular water filters don't work, and in many cases, the bottled water that you may THINK is clean is nothing more than tap water or no better. The plastic from bottled water also often leeches into your water. You can also check because sometimes, they sell reverse osmosis water in health food stores.
Now, reverse osmosis does filter out even the beneficial minerals out of your water, so you will want to re-mineralize it (I usually put in about 1/4 of a teaspoon per gallon of Himalayan Pink salt). You can also re-mineralize it with ionic trace minerals.
There are also FLUORIDE SHOWER FILTERS for those who live in apartments and can't get a unit to filter out all water. These filters work by neutralizing the fluoride and other contaminants with a copper ring.
Also, when it comes to shower filters, MAKE SURE that it specifically says that it deals with fluoride. There are a lot of reverse osmosis sites that sell water, but the shower filters don't help with the fluoride. The above link is the only one that I know of right now. You can do your own research on that.
But water is not the only place you get fluoride. There are many other places like vegetables sprayed with fluoride (yes, it kills the insects right on contact), non-stick pots and pans and many other places. You can get a list at the Fluoride Action Network. Get a list of other poisons as well in the Free Your Mind Online Resource Center. I'll leave you with this.
So until next time,
Free Your Mind… Online
Matt Mason
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Just in case you think I'm some conspiracy nut who conjures up mind control stories for no reason, here are some things you can check out:
Fluoride Deception.
Fluoride: Drinking ourselves to death.
Murder by injection
Hidden Agenda: The Fluoride Deception, (You can find this, as well as a lot of other documentaries in the HEALTH section of my Info-tainment section) [Purchase Here]
The Fluoride Deception (Interview with Christopher Bryson)[Purchase Here]
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Michael Schumacher is being slowly brought out of his induced coma, his manager has said.
Seven-times Formula One world champion Schumacher, 45, has spent the last month in the University of Grenoble hospital fighting for his life after sustaining brain injuries following a skiing accident in the resort of Meribel.
Concern was growing as to whether he would ever make a recovery, or even wake again, but manager Sabine Kehm has now provided official confirmation that steps are under way to bring him out of his coma following the accident on December 29.
A statement read: "Michael's sedation is being reduced in order to allow the start of the waking-up process, which may take a long time."
Kehm added: "For the protection of the family, it was originally agreed by the interested parties to communicate this information only once this process was consolidated."
Kehm has stated no further updates will be given, and out of respect for Schumacher's family she has urged they continue to be left alone.
Kehm said: "The family of Michael Schumacher is again requesting for their privacy, and the medical secret, to be respected, and to not disturb the doctors treating Michael in their work.
"At the same time, the family wishes to express sincere appreciation for the sympathy they have received from around the world."
Wife Corinna, who is maintaining a constant bedside vigil, last week issued a heartfelt thank you to all those who continue to send in messages of support, insisting her husband "is a fighter (who) will not give up".
Close friend Felipe Massa, who suffered his own serious head injury in an accident in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2009, admitted last week he was praying every day for Schumacher.
In this week's first pre-season test in Jerez, the Mercedes car being driven by Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton is carrying the message on the side of the W05 '#KeepFightingMichael'.
Hamilton said: "It's tragic. We are hoping he is going to pull through and we see him sooner rather than later."
Rosberg added: "We have the message on our car because as a team we want to show we are thinking about him, his family and friends, and hoping for the best every day."


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This is a great salad for entertaining as it can be completely done ahead. It can be served at room temp, but I usually warm it up on the serving platter just before serving.
This is a great salad for entertaining as it can be completely done ahead. It can be served at room temp, but I usually warm it up on the serving platter just before serving.—TheWimpyVegetarian
Serves: 4
Grilled Fennel and Cannellini Bean Salad
1 large fennel bulb
1 cup white wine
Pinch each salt, pepper, dried thyme and lemon zest
Olive oil
2 cups cooked white beans, or one 17-ounce can
4 slices pancetta, fried whole until crispy
2/3 cup grape tomatoes, sliced in half
Parmesan cheese shavings
Lemon-Sage Dressing
1 large garlic clove, peeled and smashed
1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon lemon juice
5 fresh sage leaves, roughly torn
2 tablespoons olive oil
Freshly ground pepper
In This Recipe
- Bring a large pot of water with the wine to a boil, and blanch the fennel for 10 minutes. Remove and set aside to cool. Slice the bulb in half, and into quarters. Slice the fennel in ¼" thin wedges, keeping the core intact to hold each wedge together. Lightly dust the surfaces with salt, pepper, thyme and lemon zest, and grill for 10 minutes each side, or until the fennel softens, but still has a slight crunch. Grill longer if you prefer a softer fennel.
- Make the dressing using ideally a mortar and pestle set. Place the smashed garlic clove in the bowl of the set and sprinkle with salt. Using the pestle, smash the garlic clove until it liquefies. Add the lemon juice and vigorously stir with the pestle. Add the sage leaves and continue stirring and smashing the garlic. Add the olive oil while stirring. Add a little pepper.
- Combine the beans and tomatoes and toss with 1 ½ tablespoons of dressing. Lay on a serving plate and top them with the pancetta rings and grilled fennel. Top with the remaining dressing and a few shavings of Parmesan cheese.
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James Tate: "The Cowboy"
At least since Freud, jokes have been regarded as shortcuts to the unconscious. They reveal the sunny parts of even our darkest and most worrisome fears and desires. If "told" jokes are expressly linguistic revelations, "practical" jokes—performances that are funny at someone else's expense—often require some explanation. Perhaps this is what can make them especially cutting. Sometimes it's even funnier for everyone else if the target of the practical joke is confused, angry, or embarrassed—in these cases, the audience's laughter is underwritten by the subject's distress.
After attending a recent James Tate reading, I almost felt like the butt of such a practical joke. Sitting in an auditorium surrounded by uproarious laughter, I couldn't help wonder why I wasn't guffawing too. Maybe the joke was on me, or maybe I'm a bit of a grump. Though Tate is known for infusing his poems with a dry, absurdist humor, certainly not all of his poems are met with laughter: "The Lost Pilot," from his 1967 debut book of the same name, reads like an elegy. It is dedicated to his father, a pilot who died in World War II while Tate was still a baby. I can't imagine anyone laughing at this poem; in fact, it's hard to imagine anyone not touched when reading lines dedicated to a lost father: "it was mistake / that placed you in that world / and me in this; or that misfortune / placed these worlds in us."
But maybe Tate's mastery lies in his ability to make readers laugh and cry, and in his penchant for constructing offhandedly dramatic transitions between those two most outwardly legible and nonverbal of human emotional responses. "The Cowboy," a poem from Tate's 2008 collection The Ghost Soldiers, begins with its speaker believing that a practical joke has been played on him: "Someone had spread an elaborate rumor about me, that I was / in possession of an extraterrestrial being." But after this statement, the poem swiftly moves into deeper, and darker, territory. The poem's jokey opening suddenly sets up a domestic situation involving an alien that is related to the kind of humor we find in sitcoms such as Alf and American Dad, not to mention the otherworldly schmaltz of a film like E.T.; all the fooling around aside, the poem ultimately reads like a late transposition, into a slightly sunnier key, of the themes that appear in "The Lost Pilot," a poem that anchors the beginning of the poet's career. In both poems, Tate writes about the ways in which fathers and sons can and can't connect, about the family situations that reduce us to tears, that prompt us to wistfully chuckle, and that make us wonder how we manage to feel seemingly disparate emotions at the same time.
The poem's opening conceit is of a practical joke that has taken hold of an entire community, and it is pretty funny. The speaker comes across as hapless, having finally succumbed (he thinks) to one of his friend Roger Lawson's infamous pranks. Resigning himself to his fate, the speaker becomes a figure of fun, and it's easy to imagine ourselves, as readers, among the curious numbers camped outside his house to see the alien:
Roger was a practical joker of the
worst sort, and up till now I had not been one of his victims, so
I kind of knew my time had come. People parked in front of my
house for hours and took pictures. I had to draw all my blinds
and only went out when I had to.
The first hint that something other than pure comedy is afoot, however, comes when the speaker chooses to announce the death of the "extraterrestrial" to the assembled crowds as a way of getting them to disperse: "'The little fellow died peacefully in his sleep at 11:02 / last night,'" the speaker says, even inventing the manner of death: "'He went up in smoke instantly.'" This is an act of deflation, a use of mortality to put an end to foolishness.
But to the speaker's chagrin, invoking death seems to have the opposite effect: when he returns home from buying groceries he finds a "nearly transparent fellow with large pink eyes standing about three feet tall." The community, and their laughter, are noticeably absent from this scene. The speaker is alone in his domestic space with the alien, and, no longer gawkers, we feel as though we are brought into the scene with them. It's no coincidence that this is the point when the poem becomes poignant and starts to tack toward heartbreak.
This shift in the poem can remind us how differently emotional effects can play out in public and private settings. An event that seems like an occasion for laughter when we are in the presence of other people can suddenly feel much more serious or touching when we are alone and at our most vulnerable. Think about the difference in hearing a poem such as "The Cowboy" read in public and reading it privately at home. In the public setting, laughter provides not only a commonality but also a kind of armor against uncomfortable emotions—it's so much easier to laugh together than to cry together. Perhaps a preference for tears is also a preference for privacy, and for the private effects that lyric poetry can achieve. These are the effects that drive us back to our favorite books of poems when we want solace or dark humor. They are effects that do not, unfortunately, thrive in the busy air of common spaces; they are the ones we seek to enact when we are alone and read a poem out loud to ourselves.
Alone with the extraterrestrial, the speaker accesses an emotionally generous, and even kindly paternal, side of his personality that seems to take him by surprise. The shock of finding an alien in his kitchen morphs into regard for the creature's well-being: despite the inevitable attention that such an adventure would bring, he begins to entertain his new friend's request to go on a journey to meet cowboys like the ones he has seen on television ("'I'm going to get the maps / out,' I said. 'We'll see how we could get there, . . .'") and even offers him orange juice instead of sarsaparilla because "'It's good for you.'" We see a portrait of the hopes and hardships of parenthood as seen in a fun-house mirror: by the poem's end the caregiver (the speaker) will have become the disappointed child, and the child (alien), unafraid of his coming death, will find himself relying on the power of imagination to comfort his temporary father. Rather than make the speaker laugh or cry, this reversal of expectations seems to pin him between the two, leaving him in a place where seemingly contradictory emotional responses overlap.
By allowing himself to grow an emotional attachment to the alien, the speaker inscribes himself in a cycle of emotions linked to the mysteries of mortality. We can feel his excitement as he goes to look for maps of Wyoming or Montana, imagining what it will be like to travel the American West with this strange visitor and his fresh experience of the culture and landscape; we can also imagine a boy of Tate's generation eagerly hoping that his father might take him to meet cowboys like the ones that he's seen in Westerns.
All this makes the news that the trip has been called off particularly devastating. Just when he was getting used to his role as the alien's surrogate, terrestrial father, he learns that his adopted son has been called to death by his father. Roger Lawson's practical joke has turned out in some ways to be a cruel one. "I stood there with the maps in my / hand. I felt an unbearable sadness come over me," the speaker reports upon learning that his research was done in vain. In the context of "The Lost Pilot" and the larger trajectory of Tate's work, we can read "The Cowboy" as a late, oblique acceptance of the disappointments that result from having been born the son of a father who was called to death in war, a father who must remain forever unknowable—which is to say, the disappointments that result from having been born at all, given that our parents are never completely knowable, no matter how much time with them we are granted or how determined we are to know them better. The poem's basic conceit—having an alien stand in for a child—allows us to engage these emotions with a degree of distance, to laugh at the seemingly ridiculous and arbitrary way in which each of us is part of a generation of mortal creatures, destined to replace those who came before us and to be replaced by those who come in our wake. In this essential way we are not unlike the alien, and like him we will one day leave a world, and loved ones, that we never have the chance to know well enough.
How moving, then, that the alien surmises that his real father is calling him to his death not as punishment but for having succeeded in his mission, for arriving safely and meeting the speaker. This true extraterrestrial "father" is perhaps the most mysterious figure in the poem, an unabashedly deity-like presence who decides when his children must die without having to explain anything in human, or even alien, terms: "'Why must you die?' I said. 'Father decides these things. It is probably / my reward for coming here safely and meeting you.'" Though he is not exactly sure why his father has called him back, the alien confronts his destiny with grace and even humor. After all, when the speaker encounters him after going to look for the maps, he finds him "dancing on the kitchen table, a sort of ballet, but very sad." In this one inexplicable gesture, the extraterrestrial seems to express the confounding straits in which he—like all of us—finds himself at the end of his short stay: elated for having had the opportunity, sad to see it pass.
Certain kinds of laughter and humor can seem to express an appreciation for cruelty beneath a giddy surface. Practical jokes, above all, hint at this troubling aspect of our souls. And yet in this poem, which starts out silly and ends up touching, a wiser kind of humor takes center stage and dances sadly on the table. Laughter exists in a spectrum of emotions, reactions, and deeds, kindness and charity among them. Desperate to get the alien to stay, the speaker protests, "'But I was going to take you to meet a real cowboy,'" to which the alien responds, "'Let's pretend you are my cowboy.'" This generous act of imagination on the part of the alien, of pretending, is offered as refuge, a mitigating circumstance between the extremes of joy and despair. Poetry and stories can also offer such a refuge. Parents and children, and poets and aliens, are created as if by design to leave one another too soon. This is what made the particularly sad circumstances that underwrote "The Lost Pilot" universally applicable and unfortunately ripe material for beautiful poetry. It's also what makes readers of a poem about a practical joke and an alien burst into both laughter and tears.
Stuart Krimko is the author of Not That Light (2005) and The Sweetness of Herbert (2009), both published by Sand Paper Press.


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Mint Filled Rose Thumbprint Recipes
Mint and Chocolate Filled Rose Thumbprint Cookies
Thumbprint cookies are similar to sablé cookies. They both have the texture of shortbread. The characteristic thumbprint shape is created by pressing down on the cookie with a spoon half-way through the baking process. A sweet filling is placed in the resulting cavity. The cookie itself has a mild sweetness that goes very well with the sweeter filling. The filling can be jam, preserves, caramel or even chocolate.
I chose a pink mint filling because of my little five-year-old sister-in-law. She came to me with the cutest request. She adores Cookie Monster, and often shares her cookies with the Cookie Monster doll we got her. Today, she came to me, hid her face with the stuffed animal and said in her best Cookie Monster impersonation, "Cookie Monster is hungry, I want pink cookies." My heart melted; I can't say no to my little munchkin.
All the girls gathered in the kitchen and pink cookies it was. I looked in the pantry and found several choices for a pink-colored cookie. Some pink-colored mint chocolate chips from Guittard, raspberry and strawberry extracts or rose paste. The girls voted and we went for a rose-flavored cookie dough with pink mint chocolate filling. Sunny, my 13-year-old eldest sister-in-law wanted to create some fun design in the filling, so we melted some bittersweet chocolate and vanilla chips as well. This has to be some fun designs.
We were all very happy with our unique cookies and needless to say, Cookie Monster also enjoyed our creation.
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Getting Started
A building permit is required when building a fence taller than seven feet. The height is measured from the ground where the posts or supports enter the ground to the top of the fence, including any lattice, posts or any other material added to the top. Fences under seven feet tall do not need a building permit but may need a zoning permit.
For more information, visit the Planning and Zoning staff at the Development Services Center or call (503) 823-7526.
Your building permit will be reviewed under provisions in the Residential Specialty Code (formerly the One and Two Family Dwelling Specialty Code) based on the 2003 IRC. More information on building codes.
- Find out how to research your property and where to locate the information in preparation for your permit application
- Determine what your residential fees will be


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|What to do with NM502?
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I submitted the following Letter to the Editor of the "Los Alamos Monitor" that summarizes the NM502 decision making from 2007 to the present, and includes some recommendations. The Letter appeared in the February 7, 2012 edtion.
Planning for the future of NM502 or parts of it has been underway since before 2007, when NMDOT and the County agreed on improvements to the Knecht to Airport Road section of NM502 that would add an eastbound lane. As a result, $4M from the State and about $1.2M from the County are currently sketched into budgets for the project in 2014.
In 2010, a $300K contract was awarded to MIG, Inc. and the "NM502 Transportation Corridor Study" final report, delivered in June and finalized in September of 2011, put forward a $40M plan that would reduce Trinity from five to three lanes total (from four to two through-traffic lanes) and install nine (9) single-lane roundabouts.
Joyce Cady and Victor Gavron obtained 500+ cosigners on a petition favoring four "through" lanes on Trinity. We looked at the proposed roadway, studied the highway and traffic literature and current conditions, and concluded that it could not carry current traffic volumes. Further, we found claims that "Trinity is dangerous" were based on mistaken analysis. Eventually, Ourston Roundabout Engineering confirmed that single-lane roundabouts could not carry even today's traffic load. In September, 2011, the Council ruled out single-lane roundabouts.
Now, five months later, the "Zimmerman Option" has been brought forward, a plan that would keep the Knecht to Airport segment of NM502 at two through lanes and install a roundabout at the intersection of Central and Trinity. This option applies traffic calming and includes four choke points: two lanes of eastbound traffic must merge into a single lane (near Canyon), a roundabout entrance where 2-to-1 merging of eastbound traffic on Trinity would often be necessary, and two speed-control objects at Tewa and Airport that would affect traffic in both directions.
Our observations and calculations, and the professional opinions of NMDOT and Parsons-Brinckerhoff (PB), indicate that one through-traffic lane in each direction is inadequate for existing traffic. PB has put two options on the table: (1) a "5-lane" (4 thru lanes) option and (2) a "4-lane" option (2 EB and 1 WB thru lanes, as in the 2007 plan). Both of the PB options include a traffic signal at Central and Trinity.
Recently, NMDOT stated in writing that they would support the PB "5-lane" or "4-lane" options (with two through-traffic lanes in each direction). NMDOT would consider other options if negotiations to transfer NM502 to County operation were undertaken.
The safety and comfort issue is complex, but the crux of the argument, as I see it, is that NM502 has a very good safety record, while roundabouts are widely acknowledged to be poor in safety for bicycles and motorcycles. The data on pedestrian safety is mixed, but the situation for pedestrians at a two-lane roundabout is recognized as "challenging" for children, the elderly, and handicapped users (NCHRP 672).
There is a fundamental difference in values at work: one group thinks constraining motor vehicle traffic on NM502 will help the residents who live near it and improve the suitability of Trinity for business. The other group (including myself) thinks motor vehicle movement along the NM502 artery is vital to Los Alamos, that four through-traffic lanes are needed, and that the Zimmerman Option will increase congestion and, if implemented, would not be good for local residents, businesses, or Los Alamos as a whole. This dichotomy arises out of history and growth of the County, and worsens through the County's planning and zoning policies, which have led to growing residential areas next to a major arterial road.
For the Knecht to Airport segment of NM502, increasing the number of lanes would provide better, more reliable traffic flow. This segment of NM502 is congested now during more than two hours of the day. The PB 5-lane plan would bring this section up to modern motor vehicle transportation standards, including reserve capacity to allow for growth, changes in traffic patterns, non-optimal driving conditions, and emergencies. If the 5-lane option is not feasible, the 4-lane option would at least be a step in the right direction.
Staying with two through-traffic lanes and adding "traffic calming" features, as in the Zimmerman Option, would clearly reduce the roadway capacity and reliability while increasing congestion. It would also mean that the County would have to take on all the expenses associated with NM502. I believe this is the wrong direction for the future.
I see Central and Trinity as representative of the two sides of this design debate. Central is the result of using traffic calming to hold down vehicle speeds and create a safe (but congested) environment, while Trinity offers greater efficiency and freedom of motor vehicle travel, controlled by signals, speed limit, and enforcement to maintain safety. When it comes to safety records, the two streets are comparable, though comparisons are difficult because Trinity carries more cars, while Central has more pedestrians. In terms of reliability, comfort, and emergency services that depend on motor vehicle transport, I think Trinity clearly outshines Central.
The Council is faced with a decision where both goals and "facts" are in contention. I hope they will reach a wise decision.
William C. Mead
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Wear of nanostructured FeNiMnAl
The aim of this project is to determine how the dry sliding wear behavior and wear mechanisms of a range of recently-discovered, very high strength, nanostructured, b.c.c.-based FeNiMnAl spinodal alloys vary with changes in the microstructure (spinodal wavelength, phase composition, interphase interface coherency) produced by ageing. Pin-on-disc wear testing are being performed at a range of speeds in air, inert atmosphere and oxygen. These are aiding in understanding the effects of local heating and of oxidation, including the role played by third bodies (wear debris) in the wear process. A range of state-of-the-art techniques is being used to characterize the pre- and post-wear specimens, and the observed wear behavior is being modeled. This project is funded by the National Science Foundation, Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation.
Faculty contact: Francis E. Kennedy Jr.


text: Before getting hitched to NHL player Mike Comrie, bride-to-be Hilary Duff is leaning on trainer-to-the-stars Harley Pasternak to help get her in top wedding form. With other svelte A-listers like newlywed Megan Fox and soon-to-be married Jennifer Hudson on his client list, the author of The 5-Factor World Diet clearly knows what it takes to get women in gown-ready shape. "The key is to have amazing shoulders, amazing arms, posture is really important," Pasternak tells PEOPLE. "But it's also important to have a really tight midsection, because the way a wedding dress hugs your midsection, you really want it lean and tight." So how is he upping the ante on Hilary's usual gym regimen to get her ready for the big day? "Instead of a five-minute cardio warm-up and a five-minute cardio cool-down, maybe we extend those cardio phases to 15 minutes before and after our workout," says Pasternak. And Hilary's pre-wedding routine isn't just about fitness—diet is also key. Each fuel-charged day consists of five meals: a breakfast burrito, mid-morning snack (berry smoothie), lunch (chopped salad), afternoon snack (apple cinnamon oatmeal cookie) and dinner ("she loves Japanese food"). We all know keeping fit is de rigueur in Hollywood, so how is the former tween queen responding to the stringent workouts? "I think she vocally disliked them all!" says Pasternak. But no hard work goes unnoticed. "She looks toned and tight… I'm really proud of her, she looks fantastic." –Hana Choi; reporting by Thailan Pham


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Most IT people already know that the sky's the limit in the cloud and that subscription services are getting more specialized all the time. At first, functions such as human resource management, health care services, accounting, sales applications, and other business use cases were the pioneers in enterprise clouds, and they remain standard use cases.
Now users can do anything from turning sprinklers and lights on or off at home, to farm analytics, to running a data center. What you might not have known is that you now can run a radio or television station via cloud service.
For generations, all functionality in a radio station, for example, happened in the same physical office. The traffic department moved its information to the on-air staff, and that all was separated from the account executives. Connecting the dots could often be a daunting task, especially if ad copy and art was late or simply out of sync.
Running a Radio Station from Poolside?
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Imagine a radio or television program director sitting out at the pool, checking the ad and program lineup on an iPad and making changes as needed on the fly via the Web. Of course, program directors wouldn't be caught dead doing their work in this manner, but in theory it's possible. This is now made real through a company called Marketron.
Marketron is a veteran of the communications business, consisting of a rollup of previous companies totaling about 40 years in operation. For years, broadcast media companies relied on client-based software to handle ad traffic: where and when the ads ran, what they cost, at what frequency, and so on.
Marketron's Mediascape platform is a SaaS solution in the cloud -- or on-premises, whichever a client prefers -- that allows media organizations to operate their stations' processes easier and more efficiently.
"Marketron has moved over the last two or three years to a more open platform -- a business-intelligence business where we are moving that data seamlessly through the organization," CEO Jeff Haley told eWEEK. "We've become more of a business information provider, versus a traditional trafficker."
Radio: Still an $18 Billion Business
Even though the Internet has become the de facto go-to source for media in the second decade of the 21st century, enterprises still spend more than $18 billion on radio advertisements in the U.S. An amazing 80 percent of that ad spend -- approximate $15 billion -- flows through Marketron's systems, which clearly makes it the No. 1 ad-traffic software provider in an industry that is typically perceived as antiquated.
"Mediascape is a cloud platform to plug in multiple products going back to 2010. About a third of our customer base of 1,400 media companies has migrated onto that platform," Haley said.
"If you're going to move all this data seamlessly through the organization from the traffic department to the C-suite and all the way down to the account executive, we think it has to be Web-based and accessible anywhere, anytime," Haley said.
This is the dashboard of the C-level executive-level version of Mediascape, which company and sales specialists can use to see real-time numbers.


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No side-scrolling Mario game could be quite complete without devious Secret Exits (Red Flags) planted amidst the world. Every area boasts at least one, and some have several more. Unlock them, and you not only find your way to a Hidden Level, but even shortcuts that span between worlds will be yours. And if you are looking to find the elusive Star Road, you'll need every Star Coin from every Hidden Level.
There are 12 Secret Exits in New Super Mario Bros. U. This page collects the Secret Exit locations along with a walkthrough and video for how to find each one.
Note: If you are missing one Secret Exit, it's probably the one in Rock Candy Mines-5 Walking Piranha Plants.
World 1 - Acorn Plains Secret Exits[edit]
|Secret Exit Location
|Acorn Plains-2 Tilted Tunnel
|Acorn Plains-A Blooper's Secret Lair
World 2 - Layer-Cake Desert Secret Exits[edit]
|Secret Exit Location
|Layer-Cake Desert-4 Spike's Spouting Sands
| Layer-Cake Desert-A Piranha Plants on Ice
World 3 - Sparkling Waters Secret Exits[edit]
|Secret Exit Location
|Sparkling Waters-Ghost House Haunted Shipwreck
|Sparkling Waters-A Skyward Stalk
World 4 - Frosted Glacier Secret Exits[edit]
|Secret Exit Location
|Frosted Glacier-Ghost House Swinging Ghost House
|Frosted Glacier-A Fliprus Lake
World 5 - Soda Jungle Secret Exits[edit]
|Secret Exit Location
|Soda Jungle-2 Bridge Over Poisoned Water
|Soda Jungle-6 Seesaw Bridge
|Secret Exit Location
|Soda Jungle-Ghost House Which-Way Labyrinth
|Soda Jungle-A Flight of the Para-Beetles
|Secret Exit Location
|Soda Jungle-4 Painted Swampland
|Soda Jungle-7 Wiggler Stampede
|Secret Exit Location
|Soda Jungle-5 Deepsea Ruins
|Soda Jungle-7 Wiggler Stampede
World 6 - Rock Candy Mines Secret Exits[edit]
|Secret Exit Location
|Rock Candy Mines-5 Walking Piranha Plants
|Rock Candy Mines-5 Walking Piranha Plants (Loop)
|Secret Exit Location
|Rock Candy Mines-Tower Grinding-Stone Tower
|Rock Candy Mines-6 Thrilling Spine Coaster
When you first start climbing the tower there will be a moving green pipe on the left wall. Jump on to the pipe and move left to find a hidden area with a block holding a mini mushroom. You may be tempted to ditch Mini Mario for a regular mushroom, but don't. It may be harder, but right before the end of the level you will spot another mini pipe on the top right.
Avoid all the grinding stones and enter the pipe. In the next area, time your jumps to dodge the grinding stones to the top of the area. You'll get the last Star Coin AND a path to the Secret Exit.
World 7 - Meringue Clouds Secret Exits[edit]
|Secret Exit Location
|Meringue Clouds-Ghost House Spinning Spirit House
|Meringue Clouds-Castle Ludwig's Clockwork Tower
World 8 - Peach's Castle Secret Exits
|Secret Exit Location
|Peach's Castle-1 Meteor Moat
|Peach's Castle-4 Firefall Cliffs
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