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Our friend Roger Marsh over at The Examiner has done a wonderful job of collecting recent eyewitness reports of these craft from MUFON and NUFORC among other sources, a few of which I'll discuss in a moment.
But first, let's look at some facts and figures regarding the black triangle phenomenon:
- A quick search of the MUFON sightings database sorting by 'shape' (triangle) and 'color' (black) yields 50 reports just in the past two months alone.
- Looking at the NUFORC sightings database I chose July–being the month with the highest number of reports for the year at 905–and personally counted 106 'silent black triangle' reports. That's a pretty dramatic percentage when you really think about it, basically one out of every 9 ufo sightings is of a silent black triangle.
- From 1981-1985, a wave of huge black triangular craft sightings swept through theHudson River Valley. It is perhaps one of the best cases on record with over 7,000 eyewitness reports, many of whom were aerospace engineers, cops, executives, scientists, and other qualified observers.
- During the Belgian wave of black triangle sightings from 1989-1990 there were over 5,000 reported UFO sightings, and of that 5,000 over 2,000 were specifically of black triangular craft.
Major increase in sightings near cities, not just rural areas.
It's 2012, and judging by the number of eyewitness accounts in the past two months alone, it looks to me like we're in the midst of another wave of black triangle and giant boomerang sightings. Let's take a closer look at some of the more recent reports.
December 4, 2012, 7:30 pm, Germantown, MD – Large triangular shaped object large red lights on each point. Case 44324.
I was driving in my car going home on Warfield Road between Germantown and Olney just by rt 124. I noticed just over the tree line a slow large moving object. It had very bright white and green lights. It appeared the width of the craft was coming toward me. Id say the lights were about 100 or more feet wide with the green lights interspersed. I stopped my car and watched the object fly over me. It had 3 large circular red lights on the bottom about twice the size of a pitching mound. Each of three lights had a very ornate metal structure covering themwhich was easy to see the details on the bottom. The red lights werent glowing at all on the bottom. It seemed like a very heavy object yet it flew over me without a sound, without wind or turbulence of any kind. You could just make out the triangular shape given my vantage point, it was a very dark evening. What impressed me most are the red circles on the bottom. These circles did protrude, kind of like a contact lense but not so extreme.
Take special note of the line I highlighted in red because this relates directly to another recent triangular craft sighting on the opposite side of the country…
September 2, 2012, at 3:52 am, Black Diamond, Washington – Gregory McManus, Power Line Machinist: (source: Earthfiles.com)
"(That early morning of September 2, 2012, at 3:52 AM,) the next door neighbor's dog started barking and it was a different bark – almost an intimidated bark. It kind of alarmed me. I turned on the outside lights and looked down the driveway. I didn't see anything, so I turned off the outside lights and went around to the front door and walked out onto the porch. I could see the next door neighbor's driveway and his garage through the trees. And I heard my neighbor tell the dog to be quiet. Normally, he'll quiet right down, but this time he still made a growl and a woof and did not quiet down. So I thought that quite strange.
Then through the trees right across the street over my neighbor's house came this orange glow. And then in just a flash, it became quite bright and started to move from south to north directly over my neighbor's house. It came into a clearing in the trees approximately 200 feet off the ground.
|Computer illustration © 2012 by Greg McManus Source: Earthfiles.com
I would estimate the size of the equilateral triangle craft was about 100 feet corner to corner. It consisted of seven equal-sized, bright, red-orange globes, like a glass ball with a bright orange flame inside – not moving around – just this constant orange color. The six outer globes that made up the edges of the triangular craft were each encapsulated in a "cage" similar to what you would see in the stitching of a soccer ball's hexagonal shapes. Then in the center was one of the orange globes that did not have any type of cage around it at all.
You can read the rest of this fascinating eyewitness account on Linda Moulton-Howe's website, Earthfiles. I just wanted to point out the fact that this craft had a metallic, mechanical element to the underside of it just like the witness from Maryland described. I think this is an interesting and important correlation to keep in mind.
September 16, 2012, 9:10 p.m., Jacksonville, FL – moved in a path slowly. Case 44317
I was in my car headed west on I-10 and i was just looking around and i saw some lights in a triangle formation and one beam of light that appeared to scan the area, as it got closer it appeared to be a solid triangular craft about 50 feet across, i saw two more of these craft within 5 mins. approximately 2 mins later i saw a fourth triangular craft about 1/4 mile in size with lights on all corners and a light scanning the area turning sharply, after it went out of view i grabbed a notebook and wrote down the dimensions of each craft, location, and time the event occurred.
Oh boy, either the military keeps losing something and sending out massive black triangular craft to search for whatever it is, or these aren't military craft at all. I feel this witness may have a little trouble judging lengths and distances because one craft 50 feet in diameter next to a second craft that's a "quarter mile" in diameter would look like a helicopter next to Mount Rushmore, nothing like their drawing. Again, I think in the excitement and adrenaline rush of the moment people tend to have exaggerated perceptions when it comes to size, distance and even time. But the point to make about this particular sighting is the fact that it was near I-10 which is a heavily trafficked major highway.
November 30, 2012, 4:25 a.m., Raytown, MO – Black Triangle object with three pulsating lights and one center light. Case 44259
I was on my way to work on November 30, 2012 at 4:25 am. As I turned the corner down the road a huge black triangle object flying low, maybe twice tree top level came over my street moving north east. The object was moving very slow and as it crossed over the street and my car it stopped just above the house on the east side of the street and hovered. The object was black, darker than the night sky with the exception of three very bright pulsating lights at each corner and a large bright center light. The lights changed colors but did not appear to have any pattern to the movement. The object was absolutely huge. It easily covered the entire house and then some. I rolled my window down to take a picture and video with my cell phone but could not get it to come on. So I quickly made a sketch of what I was seeing on a receipt that I had in my car. The object started to move slowly and when I went to try and get my cell phone to work again and I looked up and the object was gone. There was no engine noise what so ever and it was just gone.
Interesting detail to note with this case is that the lighting pattern differs from other eyewitness testimony. The three corner lights were pulsating and changing colors instead of maintaining the typical steady, unblinking bluish-white glow. This brings us back to a point I made in my previous article which is why would these lighting patterns be so over the top with shifting colors and "stadium lights" as some witnesses have described them? It makes no logical sense and goes against everything the military goes out of their way to avoid.
Speaking of non-FAA regulation lighting, take a look at this report from October 10th, 2012 – 1:43 am, Davis, CA: "(GS) Investigating a sound, went outside and saw triangle craft slowly pass overhead. It hovered on the horizon." Luckily for us, this eyewitness managed to grab some video which–although not crystal clear–is still quite good because it depicts this insane navigational lighting pattern. Click here to see the MP4 video.
Finally, reports such as the next one are what really give credence to this entire phenomenon. On January 15th, 1993 a Texas State Trooper, two truckers and another female bystander witnessed up close and personal a massive black triangle near a highway. The level of detail given in this report by a trained observer is nothing short of excellent.
Location: Canadian, TX
Source: NUFORC database
It was triangular in shape, massive in size and eerily quiet.
I was a State Trooper working the night shift and was patrolling US83 south of Canadian, TX. It was around 10:30PM local time.
I always had a citizens band radio on and had been listening to two truck drivers enjoying a conversation. It was an unusually warm evening for a winter night and I was wearing short sleeves and had the car window cracked a bit as I slowly patrolled northbound.
As this is the Texas panhandle area, the land is fairly flat, but with some rolling hills every so often. I could see the two trucks ahead of me and all three of us were driving north. The two trucks were approximately 1 – 1.5 miles ahead of me. As we neared the Washita Creek bridge on US83, the road dipped down into a little valley.
I lost sight of the trucks as they dipped lower than me. One of the drivers was talking away when he suddenly stopped and said "What the hell is that"? I heard the second driver say "What are you…oh hell!".
The radio was silent for a few seconds and then I heard the second trucker say "I nearly ran into you when you stopped. Are you pulling over?" To which the other trucker said "Hell yes…I want to see it".
By this time I was starting down the incline toward the creek and I could see one truck stopped and on the side of the road and the other pulling past it to park in front of it. I still didn't know what they were talking about but started slowing down.
I crossed the bridge and at that point I saw the driver of the truck just in front of me standing in the middle of US83. He was looking west and upward. This was the first time that I realized a very bright light was shining onto the ground from what appeared to be a very large dark object which seemed to be about 1,000 feet in the air and maybe a mile and a half away.
I remember thinking this because I'd been down the dirt road that runs from this location west and was fairly familiar with the topography here…and I could make out it was over another hill. I was afraid I'd be run over from behind so I started to park my patrol car on the shoulder beside the first truck.
I could see the second driver running to the first one and pointing at the object. At this point, a small passenger car topped the hill just north of us and started slowing down…probably from seeing the two trucks and my car parked there. But as the car passed by I saw the brake lights come on and the car slightly screeched to a stop right in the middle of the south-bound lane.
There was a female driver and she stepped out of her car, right foot still inside but standing outside the car, and was looking at the object. I asked her to quickly move out of the road. She turned to me and said "What is that?" I told her I didn't know, but to please move. She did so quickly and then came back to us.
Now there were the two truckers, the lady and myself standing on the shoulder of the southbound lane. I couldn't hear a sound from the craft but could see a immensely bright beam of light shining straight down. The light didn't sway back and forth like a search light or anything…it just shone straight down. Suddenly I was aware of the fact that the object appeared to be moving toward us very slowly. This was because I realized the sheer dimensions of the craft.
It was a moonless night..or as best as I can remember it was moonless. Thousands of stars in a totally black sky made it very easy to see that the object was indeed moving toward us. It was triangular in shape. That was obvious almost from the start. The point was forward as if you'd imagine a triangle being mobile and one of the points being the front of the object. (I hope that makes sense)
There was absolutely no sound coming from the craft. Not even a whisper.
I realized no one was talking…I think we were completely confounded by what we were seeing. After around five minutes, the object had gotten to a point that I felt it was within a mile of us. I still had the strong sensation that it was higher above us than it appeared. That's when the bright light simply shut off and it was easier to see the outline of the craft.
The mere size of the craft was incredible. If my references are even near what I think they are, I'd estimate the size of the craft to be at least 1000′ per side. It was massive. The reason I use this word is two fold. One is from the dimensions of it. But the other is this. As the craft neared being almost directly over us, I remember feeling weight….felt something heavy on me. It also seemed as if there was a haze around the object…just barely off of the surface that seemed to make the stars near the edge flicker before they were occulted by the object itself.
I also remember realizing I was holding my breath.
And although we couldn't hear anything, one of the truckers said, "Do y'all feel that?" It felt as though everything, the road, the air, us…everything seemed to be vibrating.
Up to this point, I don't think what I felt was fear….just amazement. But when the craft was directly over us, something happened. I was staring straight up at it, and I remember at this point that the women started sobbing and ran away to her car. She left before I ever said another word to her.
The object was black. Much blacker than the sky. This may have been an illusion from all the stars in the background, but it was darker to me. But as I looked up, I suddenly saw a circle appear…just forward of what would be the center of the object. This circle didn't light up. It became darker…as if there was absolutely no light shining from it or reflected from it. Without a doubt it was darker than the rest of the craft.
The craft literally stopped directly above us.
One of the drivers asked me if I should call for help. I told him I didn't know what I'd say. The thought did cross my mind, but I was thinking they'd be thinking I was crazy back at the Sheriff's Office.
The craft then started pivoting above us…with the point moving clockwise in relation to me until it was pointed in a generally north-west direction. Then it began moving again. I remember hearing one of the truckers talking, but my ears felt as if they were going to pop.
Again, there wasn't a sound from it…but a tremendous feeling of weight or pressure…sort of like when you dive deeply into the water. That kind of feeling.
As the craft moved off slowly, one of the drivers said something about driving to the top of the next hill to see it more clearly. He started to turn away and at that moment the craft sped up noticeably, then shot off to the northwest in a matter of 3-4 seconds.
The drivers asked me what we should do and I told them I didn't know. I don't know what we saw, what we experienced. One of the drivers, the one that said he wanted to see it from the hilltop, ran to his truck and drove north. I ran to my patrol car and got in, passed him on the way north and pulled over at the top of the rise.
We all got out again but couldn't see anything. I remember my ears were ringing like mad. Looking back, I think this was side effects of an adrenaline rush. I've been in shootings, high-speed pursuits and numerous other tension-filled moments and I always have that reaction.
After some time, we all got in our vehicles and left. I went straight home. I undressed and took a shower. I still could see the object in my mind…and am absolutely convinced about the darker circle inside the craft. I
then sat down at my desk in the study and sketched out the craft on a piece of paper. I then went into my bedroom where my wife was asleep.
As I lay down, she rolled over to kiss me goodnight but stopped and asked "Have you been fighting a grass fire or something?" I said no and asked why. She told me I smelled like burned grass or hair. I told her what I'd seen just an hour earlier. She knew I was sincere.
The next morning, I got out of bed and walked into the bathroom. As I looked in the mirror, I saw that my face looked like I had a very light sunburn. Not deep red…just a little blushed. I looked down and most of the hair on both arms looked as if I'd been synged with a flame.
I called my wife and she came in and gasped at how I looked. We looked in the bed and there was a mass of burned hair on my pillow and the sheets. I say burned…I mean it was very brittle and it and I still smelled like I'd been fighting a fire.
That was 12 years ago. I still see it in my mind and I sometimes dream about it. I've never told anyone other than my dearest and most trusted friends. I have no doubt that what I saw was real. I have no doubt that it was huge, it was manned, and it was being intelligently operated. I'm not assuming anything…that it was an alien craft, a military craft or whatever. But what I saw moved with great stealth when I first saw it and was able to reach an unbelievably high speed in the blink of an eye.
So…as you're reading this, you may think I'm nuts. But this is the single-most bizarre thing I've ever experienced, and I'm absolutely convinced it was real.
NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. We have responded to the report, and hope to be able to communicate with the witness in greater detail about the incident. PD.
Different configurations, different sizes, different lighting patterns. Are we seeing completely different craft?
The sheer variety of shapes, sizes, lighting patterns and configurations begs the question of whether we're seeing totally different craft. Are they from the same source, be it military or extraterrestrial? Or both? That's a great question that we still haven't managed to answer. So let's assume for the moment that ALL of these craft are of military origin. Then that leads us to several conclusions, none of which are very logical:
- The military decided that just ONE type of enormous, silent black triangular craft with a bizarre lighting pattern wasn't enough for their needs, so they had 4 or 5 other aerospace manufacturers build 5 or 6 different type of triangular craft to carry out roughly the same mission.
- Some of these craft are prototypes or proof-of-concept vehicles which are being flight tested in advance of building the final production variant.
- There are dozens of these craft based out of dozens of different Air Force bases throughout the country, and not a single person within the military has ever leaked even the smallest bit of information about them in decades? No flight line mechanic has ever told his wife or girlfriend that he changed a tire on a black triangle the size of a football field? No airbase ATC controller has ever mentioned to a friend in a bar that he or she was part of the engineering team on a craft that made the Space Shuttle look like a Cessna?
- No Air Force pilot has EVER discussed their involvement in such a program with anyone, family or otherwise. I find this terribly difficult to believe.
- Sightings of these craft began in the early 1980's and have continued with more or less visibility for the past 30+ years. Thirty years.
I'm not buying it, and anyone with half an analytical mind isn't buying it either. Yes, the military is widely known to operate black budget craft in secrecy until such time as they need to start operating in the open. This was true of the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk and the B-2 Spirit. More recently the public became aware of a stealth variant of the Blackhawk helicopter which crashed during the raid on Osama Bin Laden. That was quite a nice surprise because it came totally out of left field, nobody expected it. But when you really think about it, it makes total sense that there would be a stealth helo in the military arsenal. The RAH-66 Comanche laid the ground work and when that program was cancelled do you really think any of that technology went to waste? Certainly not. But a helicopter is easy to hide. It easily fits in the belly of a C-5 or C-17 and can be operated under the cover of darkness. It's much, much harder to hide a black triangle the size of a C-5!
Maybe they're ours, maybe they're not. Either way, we should care.
If they're ours, then they are more likely the type of craft described by Dennis Bossack in my previous article on this topic. I may be going out on a limb to say they're not of this earth, but the facts simply don't stack up here. This phenomenon is being witnessed by people across the country in both rural and, more recently, heavily populated areas. The last thing you want to do with a top secret piece of military hardware is draw attention to it with stadium spotlights searching the ground, multi-colored strobe lights, and in some cases even brightly lit windows. It makes zero logical sense.
If the military wished to roll out a top secret new aircraft to the public, they would do so with the obligatory ceremony commemorating a new era of advanced technology celebrating the men and women who made it all possible. They did it for the B-2 in 1988, the U-2 and the SR-71 in the 60's. If there's one thing military brass loves, it's getting positive public attention for all the taxpayer dollars that went toward development. Where's the roll out of the giant black triangle and the statement that "The public will be seeing more of these in the skies and we don't want you to be alarmed…" ??
These craft operate with total disregard as to who sees them or whether or not they're being photographed or recorded by eyewitnesses on the ground. They follow no rational pattern of behavior, sometimes they'll hover above a random house, street, movie theater or field with no rhyme or reason as to their mission or intentions.
In more and more cases, these seem to appear less like military craft and more like somethingelse. Could this be a precursor to full disclosure? Perhaps. Could we be seeing the first cracks forming in the crust of secrecy that has surrounded this subject for nearly 70 years? Maybe… Either way, we'll continue to research this topic and hopefully uncover more information about this phenomenon in the process.
If you have experiences of your own to share, please feel free to contact us.
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By Ed Harris
After a little more than a week on the job, Mark DeVoe has resigned from the position of Director of Planning and Community Development.
According to his resignation letter, DeVoe's last day was Friday, July 19.
"Please accept my deep apologies for any inconvenience I may have caused you or the Town of Southington," DeVoe said in his resignation letter to Town Manager Garry Brumback. "It is my hope that having made this decision quickly, the town may resume its search for an appropriate candidate for this position."
DeVoe claimed personal reasons for his departure and will be returning to his former job as director of Planning and Economic Development in Plainville earlier this week.
"I wish him well," Town Manager Garry Brumback said, noting he was disappointed that DeVoe left, but understood his decision. "I felt he was doing a fine job."
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This light starter can be prepared ahead of time and is a smart alternative to fussy holiday hors d'oeuvres. It has an unbelievably fresh flavor, even when made with frozen soybeans.
- Active Time
- 30 min
- Total Time
- 30 min
- 4 large carrots
- 3 celery ribs, strings removed with a vegetable peeler
- 1 seedless cucumber (usually plastic-wrapped), halved lengthwise and cored
- 1 bunch radishes
- 1 lb fresh or frozen shelled edamame (soybeans; 3 cups)
- 2 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 tablespoon chopped garlic
- 5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- Cut carrots, celery, and cucumber into 1/2-inch-wide sticks (2 1/2 inches long). Cut radishes lengthwise into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Fill a large bowl with ice and cold water and keep cut vegetables in ice water (to keep crisp) while making dip.
- Cook edamame in 1 1/2 quarts boiling water with 1 1/2 teaspoons salt in a 3-quart heavy saucepan 3 minutes, then reserve 3/4 cup cooking liquid and drain edamame in a colander. Rinse under cold water until cool.
- Dry saucepan and add garlic and 3 tablespoons oil, then cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until garlic is pale golden, 3 to 5 minutes.
- Purée 2 cups edamame with garlic-oil mixture in a food processor until smooth. With motor running, add 1/2 cup reserved edamame-cooking liquid in a stream. Add remaining cup edamame, lime juice, sugar, pepper, remaining 2 tablespoons oil, and remaining teaspoon salt and pulse until slightly lumpy. Add remaining 1/4 cup cooking liquid to thin if desired, then stir in cilantro.
- Transfer dip to a serving dish and serve with vegetables, drained and patted dry, for dipping.
Cooks' notes:
•Vegetables can be cut 1 day ahead and chilled in a sealed plastic bag lined with dampened paper towels. (Ice bath is not necessary if cutting vegetables ahead.)
•Dip, without cilantro, can be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring to room temperature and stir in cilantro before serving.
•Dip, without cilantro, can be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring to room temperature and stir in cilantro before serving.
Per serving 158 calories, 10g fat (1g saturated), 0mg cholesterol, 621mg sodium, 11g carbohydrate, 4g fiber, 7g protein See Nutrition Data's complete analysis of this recipe ›


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Imagine going on vacation and being so inspired by your destination that you literally consider moving there after you retire. I'm sure some people would be skeptical that this could happen — a flash in a pan like a grease fire that quickly is extinguished once the fuel is removed. I'm here to say that for me, this was not the case. Six months later, I'm still as enamored as I was the day when I first saw a particular charming city in Portugal.
Readers of my articles can quickly tell you that travel to international destinations is very important to me. This is not to say I'm ungrateful for what America has to offer because I'm truly not. I've just happened to have seen most of the good old USA during my 50-plus years. International travel, for me, is relatively new and oh, so exciting.
This last October, we had the opportunity to take my 11-year-old son Connor to Portugal. My wife and I spent some real quality time with him wandering around the capital of Lisbon as well as strolling through the cobblestone streets of Evora, known for its bone chapel. But the highlight of our trip was what we found on the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula.
Just a short 40-minute train ride from central Lisbon's Rossio station is the stunningly beautiful and mountainous city of Sintra.
To describe Sintra as colorful would be an understatement. In addition to the dappled greens of the trees and the turquoise blues of the not so distant ocean and sky, there is so much more on the village's pallet. Sherbet-colored Spanish style cottages in all shapes and sizes are adorned with terra-cotta ceramic tiled roofs. Variegated decorative tile work graces buildings throughout the small city, and rugged granite on the Moorish castle tops one mountain peak, with the rainbow-hued Pena Palace on the next.
Don't try to get anywhere in town walking or driving in a straight line. The roads and walkways meander exceedingly because they follow the geologic contours of the hilly community. We walked for half a mile on a looping road around a gulley to get to a restaurant only 200 feet away as the crow flies.
The city has accommodated tourists by making visits to its two main attractions simple to achieve. A bus picks you up right in front of where you disembark from the train and takes you first to the Castle of the Moors.
The castle is not a typical castle. Constructed during the eighth and ninth centuries, it doesn't have a moat and it's not a single dwelling or building. It's actually an irregularly planned military outpost with walls lining the contour of the rugged terrain — not unlike Rumeli Fortress in Istanbul — but then, they both have the same Moorish influence.
The panoramic view is incredible looking down at the Atlantic Ocean from the elevated castle ramparts, and your entrance ticket allows you to ramble all over the tops of the walls and explore everything. It's also a great place to look down on the municipality below and enjoy the varied architecture and colorful landscape.
Pena Palace, the next stop for the bus, couldn't be more different than the castle. My first thought on seeing it from the city looking up was that it appeared to be a Disneyland attraction in Fantasyland. When we walked through the front entrance, there was absolutely nothing to dispel that impression.
It was built as a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Pena in the Middle Ages, but was not totally completed until 1847 after King Ferdinand acquired all the land around the hill for what was to be the royal family's new summer residence.
Listed as a World Heritage Site since 1995, the palace, like the village below, is adorned in pastel colors topped with mustard tiles. The construction has numerous vaulted arches, interior gardens, castle towers and of course as much medieval, Islamic, romantic and neo-renaissance influence the royal family could get the architect to agree upon.
Although the exterior to me was the most fun and exciting part, the interior houses a pretty cool museum full of royal collections dispersed through colorfully tiled and painted stucco rooms on several different floors.
When we were finished with our tour, the bus picked us up and deposited us back at the train station. We spent several pleasant hours exploring the meandering roads past mimes and local artists' displays and found a quaint little cafe to have lunch before heading back.
I would love to spend more time in Sintra. In fact, from the outside looking in, I'd like to spend the rest of my life in Sintra. It would be my ideal "fairy tale ending."
Chris Hale is an aviation maintenance technician for a major airline who has traveled extensively with his family. In his spare time he writes novels inspired by places he's been. Find out more about his books at www.Chrisahale.com.


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One of New Orleans' most delicious exports has made its way to Houston.
PJ's Coffee, founded in the Crescent City in 1978 by Phyllis Jordan (hence, PJ), will soon take up shop at the Royal Sonesta Hotel Houston in the Galleria neighborhood.
The coffee — which recently became the hotel's official brew with a proprietary blend created specifically for the Royal Sonesta — will be featured in a new "grab-and-go" food and beverage concession in the Houston hotel. That concession, to be called Launch, is under construction in the lobby and will debut late October. It will brew PJ's Coffee as well as bags and K-cups of a variety of PJ's blends.
For Big Easy residents who have moved to Houston (or for Houston residents who make frequent trips to NOLA), the introduction of PJ's into the H-town market will be a welcome thing. The company, which has more than 65 locations in Greater New Orleans and throughout Louisiana, is known for its roasting techniques that produce a rich, bold (and less acidic) coffee.
PJ's currently roasts about a million pounds of coffee a year in its New Orleans headquarters, said company roastmaster Felton M. Jones, Jr., a longtime PJ's employee who helped create the Royal Sonesta blend. "We went through seven attempts to get them what they were looking for," he said.
PJ's offers 24 different coffees for retail consumption: seven dark roasts, seven medium roasts and seven flavored and decaffeinated coffees. Its beans are sourced from Indonesia, Africa and Central and South America.
"It has to be the best," Felton said. "Gone are the days of just needing 'coffee' in the morning."
When the hotel launches Launch, get ready for coffee from the only PJ's in Houston.
The Royal Sonesta Hotel Houston is at 222 West Loop South, 713-627-7600.


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I am the CEO of a successful startup company doing work in mobile self-help applications.
The project involves riding cross country on a motorcycle to speak with different psychologists and researchers, and along the way seek life fulfillment and inner peace. The folks are all people that I know well from work, most of them, are published authors - many of them best selling authors.
The long trips between towns, the different nature of the different towns, and the input from the researchers and authors all add up to new interesting insights about life. The trip will be documented on a website and through different social media channels, and the end result will be published in a book.
Men age 35-55, going through personal issues that are typical of this age, not interested in reading self help and getting in touch with their emotions but would love to take a bike and ride long distances.
The logo needs to accommodate the following products:
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2) Different social media channels (Facebook, Twitter)
3) Print (the cover of the book)
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Singer/songwriter Fiona Apple has apologized to fans for her drug possession arrest in Texas last week.
The musician was arrested on September 19 and forced to scrap a show in Austin because she was behind bars in the Hudspeth County Jail.
She blasted cops during a gig in Houston on Friday for allegedly mistreating her, but now seems to have relaxed her stance, admitting she regrets her actions.
Apple hit the stage at the House of Blues in New Orleans on Tuesday and told fans, "I'm really sorry. All the work we did is being overshadowed by this bulls—."
She also backtracked on claims she kept a log of the alleged abuses she suffered behind bars, adding, "There are no f— lock boxes. I didn't make up a code. It was my way to make a parallel between the self. I am not that f— up."


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At NCLR, we're committed to fighting for your rights, and keeping you informed of all the legal decisions and key policies that impact your lives, as well as the lives of your family and friends.
You may have noticed that our legal team over the past few months has busily been providing you with comprehensive analysis of important legal developments, breaking down and interpreting complicated issues for you, and, in the process, answering your questions about how the issues affect your lives.We couldn't do any of our work without your support.
This week, we're explaining how you and your loved ones are affected by new federal regulations that would require nearly all hospitals to grant equal visitation rights to all types of families, not just those based on marriage or biology.
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DHHS Requires Hospitals to Grant Equal Visitation Rights to All Families
On April 15, President Barack Obama issued a memo directing the Department of Health and Human Services to adopt new regulations that would require nearly all hospitals to grant equal visitation rights to all families, not just those based on marriage or biology. In the memo, President Obama specifically talked about same-sex couples as an example of family members who have been unfairly kept away from their partners when one is hospitalized. The President also said that he was taking this step in part because of what happened to Janice Langbehn and Lisa Pond, who were kept apart by a Florida hospital after Pond collapsed due to an aneurysm in February 2007. Pond died without her partner or their children being permitted to visit her.
What did President Obama's April 15th Hospital Visitation Memo say and what does it mean?
On April 15, 2010, President Obama sent a memo to the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The memo told HHS to create new regulations about hospital visitation policies for all hospitals that get federal money.
The new regulations the President asked HHS to write would require hospitals to allow patients to decide who can visit them and who has the legal power to make medical decisions for a patient if the patient is unable to.
Did President Obama talk about LGBT people in the Hospital Visitation Memo?
Yes. The President's memo said he wanted to protect LGBT patients and their families "who are often barred from the bedsides of the partners with whom they may have spent decades of their lives—unable to be there for the person they love, and unable to act as a legal surrogate if their partner is incapacitated."
Why is this issue important to the LGBT community?
Anyone who is in the hospital deserves to be visited by friends and loved ones and to have a trusted person make decisions for them if they are too ill or unconscious.
But in most states, the law will automatically give the power to make your medical decisions to a biological or legal relative, such as a parent or a sibling. Even if you are married or in a civil union or domestic partnership, you may be hospitalized in a state that does not legally honor your relationship. Many hospitals will also prevent your friends and loved ones from visiting you except for legal relatives.
The law often does not recognize the relationships that LGBT patients have to their partner, spouse, friends, and loved ones. The proposed regulations would require hospitals receiving federal funds to let patients choose their own visitors and medical decision-makers. When these new regulations become law, they will provide significant protections to LGBT patients.
Are the new regulations in effect?
Not yet. Before any new regulations can go into effect, the government has to publish a draft and allow the public to comment.
As President Obama directed, HHS issued draft regulations on June 25th, 2010. The public had 60 days—until August 27, 2010—to comment on these regulations. Now, HHS will review the comments submitted, make changes based on the comments, and publish the final regulations by November.
The final regulations will likely go into effect on January 1, 2011.
What is NCLR doing to make sure LGBT people are protected by these regulations?
NCLR submitted comments asking HHS to expand the regulations to protect LGBT patients who are too ill or unconscious to choose their visitors or decision-makers. When a patient is unable to choose, we urged HHS to automatically give visitation rights to any person who plays a significant role in the life of a patient, including same-sex partners, families of choice, and close friends.
In addition, if a patient is incapacitated and does not have documents specifically naming a medical decision-maker, we urged HHS to require hospitals to give medical decision-making authority to the person who is most familiar with the wishes of the patient, regardless of whether their relationship would be recognized by the law.
Through our coalition work, NCLR also helped write a joint letter to HHS (pdf) from 53 national, state and local organizations.
What does all of this mean right now for the rights of LGBT patients and families?
Right now, the new regulations are not yet in effect. That means there is still a big risk that the rights of LGBT patients and families can be violated at hospitals throughout the country.
What can I do now to protect myself and my family?
There are two things you can do right now: 1) a hospital visitation authorization form, and 2) a health care directive or durable power of attorney for health care.
• Hospital visitation authorization: This form tells the hospital that you want a particular person to be able to visit you. If you end up in a hospital, you want to be sure that you can see the people you love—whether that is your partner, a close friend, or chosen family member.
• Health care directive or durable power of attorney for health care: This form lets you say who you want to make decisions for you if you can't. Even if you are married or in a registered domestic partnership or civil union, your relationship may not be respected without this form. Also, with this form you can choose someone other than your spouse or partner to make medical decisions for you, if you wish.
For more information on other ways to protect your family, please take a look at NCLR's publication Lifelines (pdf).
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James Frederick Ferrier (1808—1864)
Table of Contents
1. Life the Writings
James Frederick Ferrier was born in Edinburgh on June 16, 1808, the son of John Ferrier, writer to the signet. Ferrier was educated by the Reverend H. Duncan, at the manse of Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire; and afterwards at Edinburgh High School, and under Dr. Charles Parr Burney, son of Dr. Charles Burney (1757-1817), at Greenwich. He was at the university of Edinburgh from 1825-1827, and then became a fellow-commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated BA. in 1831. He formed in the same year the acquaintance of Sir William Hamilton, whose influence upon him was very great, and for whose personal character and services to speculation he expresses the highest reverence. For years together he was almost daily in Hamilton's company for hours. In 1832 he became an advocate, but apparently never practiced. His metaphysical tastes, stimulated by Hamilton's influence, led him to spend some months at Heidelberg in 1834, in order to study German philosophy. He was on intimate terms with his aunt, Miss Ferrier, and his uncle, John Wilson, and in 1837 married his cousin, Margaret Anne, eldest daughter of John Wilson. He became a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine." He there wrote an article on Coleridge's plagiarisms in 1840. His first metaphysical publication was a series of papers, reprinted in his Remains, called "An Introduction to the Philosophy of Consciousness," in Blackwood's Magazine for 1838 and 1839.
In 1842 he was appointed professor of civil history in the university of Edinburgh; and in 1844-5 he lectured as William Hamilton's substitute. In 1845 he was elected professor of moral philosophy and political economy at St. Andrews. He was a candidate for the professorship of moral philosophy, resigned by Wilson in 1852, and for the professorship of logic and metaphysics vacated by Hamilton's death in 1856. But he was unsuccessful on both occasions, and continued at St. Andrews until his death. His chief work, the Institutes of Metaphysic, was published in 1854. The theory which it upholds had been already expounded to his class. It reached a second edition in 1856. In the same year he replied to his critics in a vigorous pamphlet called Scottish Philosophy, the Old and New, which, with certain omissions, is published as an "Appendix to the Institutes" in his Remains. He thought that the misunderstandings of his previous exposition had told against his candidature for the chair of metaphysics. Ferrier devoted himself to his professorial duties at St. Andrews; wrote and carefully rewrote his lectures, and lived chiefly in his study. He could seldom be persuaded to leave St. Andrews even for a brief excursion. An attack of angina pectoris in November 1861 weakened him permanently, though he continued to labor, and gave lectures in his own house. Renewed attacks followed in 1863, and he died at St. Andrews on June 11, 1864. After his death his minor publications were collected and published together along with a series of lectures as Lectures on Greek Philosophy and other philosophical remains (1866).
2. Philosophy
Ferrier provides the earliest, and in some ways the most impressive, statement of absolute idealism in English philosophy. As an historian of philosophy Ferrier did not pretend to exceptional research; but he had an ability to give a living presentation of their views. The history of philosophy was, for him, no mere record of discarded systems but "philosophy itself taking its time." He was a sympathetic student of the German philosophers, banned by his friend Hamilton. It is difficult to trace any direct influence of Hegel upon his own doctrine, and indeed he said that he could not understand Hegel. But both his earlier and his later writings have an affinity with Fichte -- especially in their central doctrine: the stress laid on self-consciousness, and its distinction from the "mental states" with which the psychologist is concerned. This doctrine connects him with Berkeley also. He was one of the first to appreciate the true nature of Berkeley's thought, as not a mere transition-stage between Locke and Hume, but as a discovery of the spiritual nature of reality.
In an essay on "Berkeley and Idealism," published in 1842, perhaps Ferrier's most perfect piece of philosophical writing, he signalizes both the essential truth and the essential defect in a theory which was at the time much less understood than it is now. Berkeley, he says, "certainly was the first to stamp the indelible impress of his powerful understanding on those principles of our nature, which, since his time, have brightened into imperishable truths in the light of genuine speculation. His genius was the first to swell the current of that mighty stream of tendency towards which all modern meditation flows, the great gulf-stream of Absolute Idealism." The element o peculiar value in Berkeley's speculation is its concreteness, its faithfulness to reality.
The peculiar endowment by which Berkeley was distinguished, far beyond almost every philosopher who has succeeded him, was the eye he had for facts, and the singular pertinacity with which he refused to be dislodged from his hold upon them. . . . No man ever delighted less to expatiate in the regions of the occult, the abstract, the impalpable, the fanciful, and the unknown. His heart and soul clung with inseparable tenacity to the concrete realties of the universe; and with an eye uninfluenced by spurious theories, and unperverted by false knowledge, he saw directly into the very life of things.
His theory needs only to be widened, and thus corrected, to provide the true explanation of which philosophy is in search. How this is to be done, is more clearly stated in the Institutes.
He saw that something subjective was a necessary and inseparable part of every object of cognition. But instead of maintaining that it was the ego or oneself which clove inseparably to all that could be known, and that this element must be thought of along with all that is thought of, he rather held that it was the senses, or our perceptive modes of cognition, which clove inseparably to all that could be known, and that these required to be thought of along with all that could be thought of. These, just as much as the ego, were held by him to be the subjective part of the total synthesis of cognition which could not by any possibility be discounted. Hence the unsatisfactory character of his ontology, which, when tried by the test of a rigorous logic, will be found to invest the Deity -- the supreme mind, the infinite ego, which the terms of his system necessarily compel him to place in synthesis with all things -- with human modes of apprehension, with such senses as belong to man -- and to invest Him with these, not as a matter of contingency, but as a matter these, not as a matter of necessity. Our only safety lies in the consideration -- a consideration which is a sound, indeed inevitable logical inference -- that our sensitive modes of apprehension are mere contingent elements and conditions of cognition; and that the ego or subject alone enters, of necessity, into the composition of everything which any intelligence can know.
Although there are occasional references to Kant in Ferrier's works, he develops his theory through a continuous criticism of Reid, on the one hand, and of Hamilton, on the other. Reid is, for him, the representative of Psychology or the "science of the human mind," and therefore, despite his own protestations to the contrary, of "Representationism." Hamilton is the representative of Agnosticism, or the doctrine of the unknowableness of the Absolute Reality. Against the former view, he argues that we have a direct knowledge of Reality, both material and spiritual; against the latter, he formulates his "agnoiology" or "theory of ignorance," to prove that the "ignorance" of which Hamilton would convict the human mind is not properly called ignorance or defect, but is simply that repudiation of the unintelligible or self-contradictory which is the essential characteristic of intelligence, rather than a defect peculiar to the human mind.
The fundamental error of Psychology is the acceptance of sensation, or the "state of consciousness," as the original datum of knowledge, the consequence being that the inference to the existence of the object, as well as to the subject, is more or less uncertain. As a matter of fact, the subject and the object are inseparable. "Matter per se" is never the object of knowledge; what we perceive is always "Matter mecum." The elementary fact of knowledge is not matter, but the perception of matter, or the subject as conscious of the object, either subjective or objective. Mere "phenomena" never exist; what exists is always phenomenal to a self or subject. If we define "substance" as that which is capable of existing, or of being conceived, alone and independently, then the conscious self, that is, the subject as conscious of an object, is substance, and can be known. The ego cannot know objects without knowing itself along with them; it cannot know itself except along with objects. It is because the psychologists have ignored the conscious, or rather the self-conscious self, which is present in all knowledge, that they have been unable to escape the conclusion that all we know is "ideas" or "phenomena" which represent, and may misrepresent, the object or substantial reality.
For the refutation of the Hamiltonian doctrine of the Relativity of Knowledge, Ferrier formulated what he regarded as an entirely original "theory of ignorance." Ignorance, he holds, presupposes the possibility of knowledge; we can be ignorant only of that which it is possible for us to know. It is not a defect, but a merit of knowledge not to know that which cannot be known because it is the unintelligible or the self-contradictory. Now we have seen that subject and object, or mind and matter, per se, are both alike unknowable in this sense; since they are never presented in consciousness alone but always together, it follows that they cannot be represented or thought in separation from one another. It is of such an inconceivable or unintelligible reality that Hamilton proclaims that ignorance is inevitable; he might as well proclaim the unknowableness of Nothing, or of Nonsense. It is the glory, rather than the humiliation, of intelligence to repudiate the unintelligible or self-contradictory.
On the basis of this "epistemology" and "agnoiology" Ferrier proceeds to construct his "ontology." Self-conscious mind, the ultimate element in knowledge, is also the ultimate element in existence. Repudiating the errors of subjective idealism, he finds himself compelled to accept absolute or objective idealism. The individual ego, along with the universe of his thought, is not independent. "The only independent universe which any mind or ego can think of is the universe in synthesis with some other mind or ego." And since one such other mind is sufficient to account for the universe of our experience, we are warranted in inferring that there is only one. Ferrier thus summarizes the argument which yields "this theistic conclusion":
Speculation shows us that the universe, by itself, is the contradictory; that it is incapable of self-subsistency, that it can exist only cum alio, that all true and cogitable and non-contradictory existence is a synthesis of the subjective and the objective; and then we are compelled, by the most stringent necessity of thinking, to conceive a supreme intelligence as the ground and essence of the Universal Whole. Thus the postulation of the Deity is not only permissible, it is unavoidable. Every mind thinks, and must think of God (however little conscious it may be of the operation which it is performing), whenever it thinks of anything as lying beyond all human observation, or as subsisting in the absence or annihilation of all finite intelligences.
The ethical implications of such an idealism are strikingly suggested in the Philosophy of Consciousness, where the parallelism between the functions of self-consciousness in the intellectual and in the moral spheres is made clear, and it is shown that "just as all perception originates in the antagonism between consciousness and our sensations, so all morality originates in the antagonism between consciousness and the passions, desires, or inclinations of the natural man." It is in this refusal to accept the guidance of the natural passions and inclinations, this "direct antithesis" of the "I" to the "natural man," that our moral freedom consists. What is this supreme act by which man asserts his supremacy over nature, within and without himself?
What is it but the act of consciousness, the act of becoming "I," the act of placing ourselves in the room which sensation and passion have been made to vacate? This act may be obscure in the extreme, but still it is an act of the most practical kind, both in itself and in its results. . . . For what act can be more vitally practical than the act by which we realize our existence as free personal beings? and what act can be attended by a more practical result than the act by which we look our passions in the face, and, in the very act of looking at them, look them down?
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Whether you exercise just 30 minutes a day or run 10 miles a day, adequate hydration is critical for optimal health. Turn to water and unsweetened, plant-based drinks as your first choice to quench thirst.
Ah, the water of life ... essential for maintaining health. It performs many critical functions in your body, including maintaining internal temperature and blood pressure, cushioning joints and organs, aiding digestion and absorption, transporting nutrients and ridding your body of toxins.
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A California Center for Public Health Advocacy study found that adults who drink one or more sodas per day were 27 percent more apt to be overweight or obese compared with those who don't drink soda.
Empty calories
"Sugar-sweetened beverages provide empty calories that most people don't really need," says sports dietitian and author Ellen Coleman. About 50 percent of the added sugars in our diets come from sugar-sweetened beverages - the single largest contributor of calorie intake in the U.S. If you do the math, you'll see that sipping these sweet drinks, that contain about 150 calories per 12-ounce serving, can lead to calorie overload.
Studies have shown that calories consumed from a beverage don't register the same sense of fullness that you derive from calories from solid food. And sugar-sweetened beverages aren't just limited to sodas - they also include sweetened coffee and tea drinks, fruit drinks and lemonade, smoothies, sports drinks and energy drinks.
Water, the best choice
"If you're looking for a lifestyle that will reduce your risk of chronic disease and overweight, and are exercising 30 to 60 minutes per day, you don't need to drink anything more than water," says Coleman. Although she says "sports drinks aren't evil," it's all about energy balance: Most people don't need the extra calories in sports drinks for their routine exercise regime.
However, "If you're a competitive athlete or an endurance athlete with a high sweat ratio, you may benefit from something more than water," says Coleman. For these athletes, she recommends sports drinks that contain carbohydrates (6 to 8 percent) for energy and sodium to replace sweat loss to help improve athletic performance.
However, Coleman suggests that you remain cautious when it comes to energy drinks, which also can contain high amounts of caffeine, other stimulants and additional herbal ingredients that may not have proven benefits.
Nutrient-rich drinks
Some beverages, such as milk and fruit juice, can provide important nutrients along with water content. Coleman says fitting a one-half cup serving of 100 percent fruit juice into your diet every day is fine, but more than that will only give you excess calories. And watch out for the added sugars and high calories of the many smoothie drinks now available in restaurants and supermarkets.
In most cases, you're better off eating whole fruits in their fiber- and nutrient-rich package. Low- or fat-free milk and fortified soy milk can help you meet your requirement for important nutrients, such as protein, vitamin D and calcium.
Sipping coffee and tea
Though health experts were once wary of the ancient, plant-based beverages coffee and tea, times have changed. A number of health benefits have been linked with these beverages, as long as your brew comes without extra sugary and high-fat toppings. Coleman reports that, contrary to urban legend, coffee and tea will not dehydrate you - in fact, they can help you meet your fluid needs for the day. If you have problems tolerating caffeine, you can choose decaffeinated versions of coffee and tea:
Coffee perks: Hundreds of studies, the majority positive, have been published on coffee and health, which may be linked to the coffee bean's high antioxidant status. Coffee has been linked to improved mental and physical performance, lowered risk of depression, and protection against Parkinson's disease, type 2 diabetes, colon cancer and liver function.
Tea time: The health bonuses of tea - especially green tea - are well publicized.
All true teas--black, white, oolong and green - that originate from the leaves of the camellia sinensis plant are rich in flavonoids, which power tea's benefits including heart health, cancer prevention, enhanced immune function, reduced mortality, bone protection, and weight loss.
Herbal brews: Although red tea and herbal teas made from a wide variety of plants as diverse as hibiscus, chamomile and spearmint are not true teas, they still provide health bonuses. Research suggests that herbal teas may possess antimicrobial, antiviral, antioxidant, and antitumor actions that may lead to disease protection.
'Green' drinking
Keep in mind that the environmental impact of drinking billions of bottled and canned beverages is staggering. Resources such as water and oil are required to produce the containers, carbon emissions are released in order to manufacture, transport and refrigerate them - and most of those bottles and cans end up in a landfill.
Your "greenest" drink is plain old tap water. You also can lower your carbon footprint by making beverages such as coffee and tea at home instead of purchasing them bottled.
How much is enough?
Most people let thirst be their guide in meeting their body's fluid needs. You get about 80 percent of your water from beverages and another 20 percent from food, such as fruits and vegetables, which can consist of at least 90 percent water.
Aim for these hydration goals established by the Institute of Medicine:
Women: Consume 2.7 liters of total water from beverage and foods each day - that's about nine 8-ounce glasses from beverages.
Men: Consume 3.7 liters of total water from beverages and foods each day - that's about 12 8-ounce glasses from beverages.
Daily guidelines
Follow these tips, based on recommendations from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Beverage Guidance Panel, to help plan your optimal beverage intake for the day:
Water: At least half of your ?daily fluid should come from water. If you're aiming for 12 cups of fluids a day, that means six should come from water. And even more is ?better; up to 100 percent of your daily beverage needs can come ?from water.
Coffee and tea: About one-third (about three to four cups) can come from unsweetened coffee or tea. Just remember to go easy on flavorings, such as sugar, cream or whole milk. If you don't like these beverages, substitute them with water.
Low-fat milk: Milk can make up another 20 percent (about two 8-ounce glasses) of your total beverage consumption.
Less is fine; just make sure to replace the calcium from another source, such as fortified soy milk, green leafy vegetables, almonds, calcium-fortified foods, or calcium supplements.
Fruit juice: Up to one small glass (4 ounces) of 100 percent fruit juice may be included in your daily beverage intake.
Alcoholic drinks: If you drink, you can include up to one to two alcoholic drinks (12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1.5 ounces of spirits) for men and up to one for women as part of your daily beverage intake.
Diet drinks: Optimally, you may want to exclude diet drinks made with artificial sweeteners, but up to 8 to 16 ounces a day may be allowed.
Sweetened beverages: Ideally, you should consume zero drinks sweetened with added sugars, such as cane sugar or high-fructose corn syrup, but up to a maximum of 8 ounces may be allowed.


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Vladimir Putin turned up more than an hour late for a speech to Russia's business elite on Thursday. This was not an insult, however, since he is habitually late. The Russian president once made his (now deposed) Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich cool his heels for four hours while he hung out with a biker gang. In the circumstances, making some of the richest people in Russia sit around for a mere 80 minutes was practically a mark of esteem.
Putin spoke for just five minutes and did not find time to mention Ukraine, Crimea, the weakening rouble or the plunging Russian markets. Instead, he focused on a different project—"de-offshore-ization." It is an ugly word and it sounds, if anything, even uglier in Russian, especially when Putin says it: de-offshorizatsiya. But it is one he likes, and he has been pushing it since 2008.
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"Russian companies must be registered on our, on their own territory, on the territory of our country and they must have a transparent property structure. I am convinced you are also interested in this," Putin told his crowd.
What sounds like a rather dry proposal for some changes to Russian financial regulation gained dramatic urgency just minutes later, when the White House issued sanctions against Kremlin insiders. U.S. individuals and companies were suddenly barred from doing business with some of Putin's best friends.
The impact was immediate. Visa and Mastercard stopped servicing several Russian banks, thus blocking their clients' ability to use ATMs. When the markets opened the next day in Moscow, shares in companies linked to people on the list plunged. Novatek, a gas company partly owned by the sanctioned Gennady Timchenko, lost 12 percent as investors piled out.
In announcing the sanctions, President Barack Obama spoke of the "costs" they would impose on Putin's inner circle, and a senior administration official later called them "very powerful" and strongly denied they are "a mere wrist slap."
The costs to Russia are undoubtedly severe but, as Russian businessmen scramble to get their money out of America's reach, Putin may be secretly pleased.
Since Russia opened up in the 1990s, Russian businessmen have become adept at using the offshore banking sectors of the world to hide their wealth. In this, they are no different than Western businesses, who also park their cash places where their governments can't get at it, but they do it on a totally different scale.
According to the most recent figures from the Russian Central Bank (for the third quarter of last year), the biggest investor in the country was Cyprus ($4.5 billion), followed by the British Virgin Islands ($2.7 billion), Luxembourg ($1.6 billion) and the isle of Jersey—all of which are generally considered to be tax havens. China, Russia's most powerful neighbour, invested $193 million during the quarter, less than Bermuda. Germany invested $428 million, little more than half the total from the Bahamas.
This is not Bahamian money, earned by hard-working hoteliers and invested in Russia in the hope of good returns. It is Russian money, part of the vast outflow that has left the country in the last two decades, and come to rest in bank accounts around the world. Last year, $63 billion left Russia. Thanks to the post-Crimea political turbulence, financial analysts predict that 2014's total will be double that.
This not only impoverishes Russia, it also complicates Putin's task of bringing everything in the country within his reach—hence, his desire to de-offshore-ize it.
"The oligarchs become much more beholden to him if their money is effectively under his control. They go from being independently wealthy to 'dependently wealthy,'" Bill Browder, who was a huge portfolio investor in Russia in Putin's early years, but who was barred from entering the country in 2006, told me. "Going forward Putin wants them to depend on him to maintain their wealth and not have it taken away."
Since coming to power, Putin has made it his goal to restore the Kremlin's power: by crushing Chechnya, by cancelling elections, by controlling the media and by squashing over-mighty oligarchs who felt they could challenge him.


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I just wonder who is still playing hockey in the nhl from the 90s
like Darren Mccartney of all I know or Do you guys know any players
at least in there 40s trying to play good.
Man really have forgotten lots when I use to collect hockey cards back in the day.
What old hockey players from the 90s still in the nhl today?
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Jaromir Jagr and Martin Brodeur are the only two I can think on that are still playing from those days, might be one or two more I'm missing, but most of them have long gone into retirement.
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Over 120,000,000 games played totalling over 1900 years of game time!#1 Turn-Based Game in 135 countries - #1 Strategy Game in 100+ countries#1 Game overall 35+ countries - #Top 5 Game overall 80+ countriesAsynchronous play - Worms™2: Armageddon's most requested feature is here!Play up to 16 simultaneous games with your friends or use Game Center's auto-match facility to find new opponents.Grab your grenades and prepare for battle, as the worms are back, bigger and better than ever in Worms™2: Armageddon! The best-selling turn-based-strategy blast-a-thon is back on the App Store for iPhone and iPad with new weapons, brand new customization options and of course, more explosions! Get ready for the ultimate installment! With many games modes available, there is something for everyone. Battle against 3 other friends in high-octane multi-player action or take on the solo campaign in a bid to become the ultimate mercenary worm!THE WORMS ARE BACK!Authentic Worms™ gameplay with cartoon-style visuals, comical audio and a refined control system using the innovative touch screen user interface.NEW WORMS™ WEAPONRY!Defend and attack with new weapons and utilities, including the Sentry Gun, Electromagnet, Napalm Strike, Super Sheep, Petrol Bomb, Armageddon, Drill, Earthquake and Poison Strike.CLASSIC WORMS™ WEAPONRY:The return of the Sheep, Holy Hand Grenade, Concrete Donkey, Parachute, Baseball Bat and enhanced Ninja Rope.SINGLE-PLAYER WORMS™ ACTION:Campaign Mode: 30 single-player missions across 5 new themes including Manhattan, Medieval, Sports, Construction and Cheese.Body Count Mode: The player takes on endless waves of increasingly tough enemies across 5 different themes or a random landscape.Practice Mode: A mode where the player can practice with every weapon against A.I. dummy worms.MULTI-PLAYER WORMS™ COMBAT:Battle against your friends with offline Bluetooth multi-player action for 1-4 players.Take on all-comers from around the globe with online Wi-Fi multi-player action for 1-2 players.Master the new game styles – Fort Mode, Crazy Crates and Custom Game StyleThe return of the favourite game styles - 'Bazooka and Grenade', Melee, Gun Show, Heads Up, Lightside, Darkside and Sudden Death.Master the variety of difficulty settings – Beginner, Intermediate and Pro.NEW CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS:NEW – in-depth ability to make custom game styles so players can create whichever game style they want to and play with online or offline.NEW - create the team you want with new personalization features – hats, forts, skins and victory dances. NEW - spend gold earned by completing the Campaign missions in the Worms™ shop on new hats, forts, and gravestones or unlock weapons for multi-player games.NEW - customize even further with one of the iPhone exclusive bonus hats.Further personalization of worm and team names, speech-banks and gravestones.OTHER FEATURES:For 3GS and iPhone 4 users – improved visuals with animated 3D backgrounds, water effects and other graphical enhancements.28 Achievements to unlock.Leaderboards.Save game status on quit – automatic save to the last turn if you exit - great for longer battles and for saving your single-player progress.Watch your finest victories again with action-replays.iPad SPECIFIC FEATURES:Crisp high definition visuals, graphical enhancements and special effects.Flip the screen! Great for 'coffee-table' style play given the support of the screen orientation feature.**DON'T MISS THE OTHER TEAM17 TITLES NOW AVAILABLE!** Worms™ for iPhone and Worms™ HD for iPad.Get even more Team17 information, including the latest game updates and more…LIKE US: www.facebook.com/WormsTeam17 and www.facebook.com/Team17FOLLOW US: www.twitter.com/Team17Ltd WATCH US: www.youtube.com/Team17SoftwareLtdVISIT US: www.team.17.com
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ENCORE What's the world made of? Here's a concrete answer: a lot of it is built from a dense, knee-scraping substance that is the most common man-made material. But while concrete may be here to stay, plenty of new materials will come our way in the 21st century.
Discover the better, faster, stronger (okay, not faster) materials of the future, and Thomas Edison's ill-conceived plan to turn concrete into furniture.
Plus, printing objects in 3D… the development of artificial skin… and unearthing the scientific contributions of African-American women chemists.
- Darren Lipomi – Chemical Engineering post-doc, Stanford University's "Skin Lab"
- Linda Schadler – Professor of materials science and engineering, and associate dean for academic affairs at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
- Nicolas Weidinger – Research assistant at the Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, California
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- Robert Courland – Author of Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-made Material
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This music documentary features the best performances of Don McLean's most popular songs. The performances will be intercut with newly filmed interviews and intimate documentary scenes of McLean and his family, and rarely seen archival footage, stills and graphics celebrating the 40-year career of one of America's premier singer-songwriters.
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Too lazy/dumb/drunk to put on a video.
Do any of you guys know much about blues singer/Guitar god Joe Bonamassa?
Saw his show on Palladia, Live at the Beacon Theatre.
This guy can rip the hell out of a guitar, but is smoothe and melodic.
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Radek Štěpánek (born 27 November 1978 in Karviná) (Czech pronunciation: ) is a professional tennis player from the Czech Republic.
Štěpánek turned professional in 1997. He started on tour as a doubles specialist, winning 12 ATP titles. Since 2002, Štěpánek has focused on being a better singles player while still playing top-level doubles. He is known for his after the shot grunting, his over the top celebrations and his many relationships with WTA players.
Štěpánek first came to mainstream notice when he defeated former world no.1 Gustavo Kuerten in 5 sets on his way to the 3rd round of the 2003 Australian Open.


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So this isn't an ancestor of mine, but because of the date and the timing of Funeral Card Friday, I thought it would be an appropriate memorial to highlight my cousin, Keith, who died two years ago today. It was very sudden and was while he was on his honeymoon, which made it just all the more awful, and it's still difficult to think about today, so I try to instead think about the fun we had as kids, and how we had started reconnecting as adults shortly before he died, and just how much fun we had at his wedding days before he died. We should be sad because we miss the people we love, but we should be happy about the time we got to spend with them.
Which leads me into this - we spend so much time finding and getting to know our family from generations past, relatives long gone, ancestors we'll never meet, and that's fantastic. That is a wonderful thing. But let's not spend so much time with family who are dead that we miss the moments we have with our family who are living.
Hope y'all have a great weekend!
|Keith, my brother, and me in Mexico for Keith's wedding, 17 January 2009.


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Korea 2019 Sound files
The sound files from our Korea conference have now been uploaded to the subscriber website.
Folder name: KOREA 2019
Books now available
I have published three new books in both print and ebook format:
Fulfilling Your Divine Plan
Fulfilling Your Highest Spiritual Potential
Making Peace with Being on Earth
The books are based on the dictations from the 2018 conferences in Holland, Kazakstan and Estonia, with an invocation for each dictation.
You can buy one at a time, but I offer a discount for buying all three. You can find them in the store under New Products
The special offer for print books is here.
The special offer for Ebooks is here.
The books will be on Amazon soon, and Healing Your spiritual Traumas is now also on Amazon.
Mother Mary's 500 vigil on Korea
There is a new program for the Mother Mary's 500 vigil. We will focus on Korea for several months in order to support our conference there.
My Lives in Dutch
The book My Lives with Lucifer, Satan, Hitler and Jesus has been translated into Dutch and is now available from the bookstore as both print and ebook.
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Three new books, summer 20192019-07-06
Mother Mary's 5000 vigil June, July2019-06-30
The program for Mother Mary's 500 vigil for June and July will again be focused on Korea.
Appropriate since Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are meeting on the vigil day of June 30th.
Holland 2019 sound files2019-06-12
The sound files from the Holland conference on Fanaticism are now on the subscriber's website.
You can find them in a folder named HOLLAND 2019
Reminder Holland conference 20192019-05-13
Just a reminder that our important Holland conference is coming up.
The masters gave some tremendous dictations in Korea about the topic of dictatorships, and the topic of the Holland conference is fanaticism, which goes hand in hand with ending dictatorships and elitism. Given how much fanaticsm has originated in Europe, this is obviously an important conference.
On the practical side, based on feedback from last year, we have moved to a bigger venue in Amsterdam so it is easier to get there from the airport. There are also plenty of hotels within a short distance. If you plan to drive, parking can be a little tight, but there are places to park at a distance and you can then take public transportation the rest of the way.
Because we have a larger conference hall, there is still room, but please don't wait too long to register.
You can find more information here.
Korea 2019 Sound files2019-05-09
The sound files from our Korea conference have now been uploaded to the subscriber website.
Folder name: KOREA 2019