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Research Involving Human Subjects
The purpose of this Policy and Procedure is to assist investigators planning to conduct research involving human subjects in designing their research and submitting it for approval.
Human subjects research must be reviewed if conducted by any faculty, staff, students, or any other person under the auspices of the College.
- In accordance with state and federal regulations and professional standards of ethical conduct, it is the responsibility of the College to reasonably ensure that, in research conducted under its auspices, the rights and welfare of human subjects are adequately protected. The primary responsibility for protecting human subjects, however, rests with each individual who initiates, directs, or engages in research.
- In order for the College to fulfill its responsibility, the College has established an Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB is authorized to review and approve all research involving human subjects conducted under the auspices of the College, regardless of the source of funding.
a. "Human Subjects Research" is defined as a systematic investigation designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge, which involves the collection of data from or about living human beings. It does not include research using published or publicly available documents or research on elected or appointed public officials or candidates for public office.
b. The members of the IRB are appointed to a three-year term by the provost and chief academic officer. In addition to other requirements of state and federal regulations, the membership of the IRB shall be composed of individuals of varying backgrounds who are qualified through maturity, experience, expertise, and the diversity of the members' racial and cultural backgrounds to assure complete and adequate review of activities commonly conducted under the College's auspices, and to ensure respect for its advice and counsel for safeguarding the rights and welfare of human subjects. The IRB shall possess the professional competence necessary to ascertain the acceptability of proposals in terms of institutional commitment and regulations, applicable law, standards of professional conduct and practice, and community attitudes.
c. The determination regarding whether a given activity should be considered human subjects research will be made by the IRB or its designee.
d. Certain categories of research involving little or no risk to subjects need not be reviewed and approved by the full IRB, but are eligible for less intensive review procedures.
e. The IRB shall develop and promulgate appropriate categories of research and determine the review procedures for each category.
f. The IRB shall apply additional criteria (PDF) during the review of research involving Excelsior College prospective and enrolled students, faculty, staff, or alumni.
Planning a Research Project
When an investigator plans to conduct research involving human subjects, he/she is advised to contact the chair of the IRB (or a designee) who also functions as the human subjects research officer (HSRO) as early as possible. Email them at email@example.com of a project which may be problematic can be discussed and alternative procedures suggested. At this point, the research often can be designed in a way which will facilitate approval.
The Principal Investigator (PI) must participate in a Protecting Human Research Participants training session that is conducted or approved by the Health and Human Services/NIH. The PI must submit a certificate of completion that is not over 3 years old.
Determining Human Subjects Involvement
The initial determination as to whether a research project should be considered human subjects research should be made by the investigator. He/she should consult the HSRO (or designee) for advice on this question. Final authority for making this determination rests with the IRB or its designee.
In general, research that involves data gathered solely for internal use (e.g., program evaluation or institutional research) would not need to be reviewed. If, however, the results of this research will be disseminated to audiences external to the College, then the research must receive prior approval. If no dissemination is planned at the time the data are gathered, but the possibility of future dissemination exists, the project director would be advised to submit the project for approval prior to initiating the research.
Project Categories
Once it has been determined that an activity is to be considered human subjects research, it will be reviewed under one of three categories: Category I is eligible for "exempt from review," Category II requires "expedited review," Category III is "full review." The review procedures for each of these are described below. Each researcher should make the initial determination regarding the appropriate category of review, although the IRB or its designee may require review under another category. All proposals must be sent to the IRB for a final determination of the level of review required for that project. The researcher can always request a higher level than that required.
Below are listed the project categories, along with examples of the types of projects included in each category:
Project Category I (Exempt from Review)
- Research can be approved as "exempt" if it is no more than "minimal risk" and fits one of the 6 federally designated exempt review categories. Studies that may qualify for "Exempt" must still be submitted to the IRB for review. (OPRS, U.S. Gov. http://oprs.usc.edu/review/typesofirb/
- Research that examine de-identified data previously collected by the college such as course and graduate survey responses
- Research that involves no participation by students, staff, or faculty
- Research the utilizes aggregate unpaired data that is analyzed using simple statistics for reporting purposes.
Project Category II (Expedited Review)
- Anonymous mail surveys on innocuous topics
- Anonymous, noninteractive, nonparticipating observation of public behavior
- Secondary analysis of existing data
- Educational research involving no interaction with students; e.g., passive observance of regular advising activity or test-taking activity
- Research involving the use of educational records if information taken from these sources is provided to the researcher in such a manner that subjects cannot be identified
- Research on individual or group behavior of adults where there is no psychological intervention, or physiological intervention or deception
- Interviews and surveys on non-sensitive topics where confidentiality is assured.
Project Category III (Full Review)
- Research which might put subjects at risk
- Research involving psychological or physiological intervention
- Noncurricular, interactive research in schools, test sites, hospitals
- Research involving deception
- Interviews or surveys on sensitive topics
- Research on persons who are under age 18, are in prison, or have mental disabilities
- Research conducted outside the United States, regardless of the procedures involved.
Review Forms
The IRB has developed a unified Human Subjects Research Application for Project Review form (PDF) that is used in submitting proposals in all project categories. The form is designed so that only the information required for the appropriate project category need be included in the proposal. The review process can take 6-8 weeks from the initial application submission so it is advised that researchers apply for review early in their process.
Review Procedures
Exempt Review
The PI submits a completed Human Subjects Research Review form, and all additional information on the study design as it pertains to the protection of any human subjects and their personal information. The Chair of the IRB reviews the application and determines if it should be classified as an exempt review. The chair of the IRB issues a letter confirming the status of the research project to the PI.
Expedited Review
The review is carried out by the 3 authorized designees of the IRB (usually including the Human Subjects Research Officer.) The designees may approve the project, request additional information or submit the proposal to the IRB for full review and approval. The investigator is notified in advance of this review. If the investigator questions any determination made under expedited review, he/she has the option of requesting a full review by the IRB, which will make the final determination.
Full review
The review is generally conducted at the next convened meeting of the IRB. The IRB meets on an as-needed basis. Investigators are welcome to attend the meeting and answer questions or provide additional information regarding their projects.
Conditions of Approval
Approval of a project by the IRB only signifies that the procedures adequately protect the rights and welfare of the subjects and should not be taken to indicate College approval to conduct the research.
Approval of a project by the IRB applies only to the procedures submitted in the proposal. The investigator must secure prior approval from the IRB for any changes in the procedures that will affect the use of human subjects. The investigator must also report to the IRB any problems that arise in connection with the use of human subjects.
Approval for projects is valid for one year only. Investigators must request a continuation for the approval yearly if the activity lasts more than one year. Only two (2) continuations will be granted for a given project. After three years, the project must be resubmitted.
Survey Research
All surveys which are designed to be sent as a link or document through an email invitation to Excelsior College employees, staff, and/or students must be distributed by the Office of Analytics and Decision Support (ADS). No email addresses of these individuals will be shared with the researchers by the College. Once a research project has received IRB approval, the investigator must contact ADS to discuss scheduling the distribution of their survey instrument in accordance with Policy CMC-002. This email to ADS should be sent to email@example.com with:
- a copy of the IRB approval letter
- a copy of the survey or a link to the survey site
- a detailed description of the intended audience, for example "please distribute this survey all associate degree in nursing students"
- the anticipated time range
- the invitation to participate, informed consent letter signed by the PI
Researchers must familiarize themselves with the Excelsior College Policy on Research Participants CMC-002. Also, all surveys approved to be distributed to Excelsior College employees, staff, and/or students, must include the following paragraph in the invitation to participate/informed consent letter.
The attached survey has been approved by the Excelsior College Institutional Review Board for distribution to employees, staff and or students. Any participation on your part is completely voluntary. Surveys are distributed with the oversight of the Excelsior College Office of Analytics and Decision Support (ADS) and contact is made via the information that has been provided in Excelsior College Student Information System. Excelsior College, as an institution of higher education, supports educational research by interacting with approved researchers and students to further the knowledge and understanding of online higher education.
Preliminary Approval
Preliminary Approval might be sought when a project has not yet fully been developed but an IRB approval letter is required for a funding application that is essential to develop the project. This Preliminary Approval notification should be retained for the PI's records and provided to the sponsor upon request. No work with human subjects, including subject recruitment, may be conducted under a Preliminary Approval. Once an award is made, the PI must revise the IRB record to request an IRB review of the Human Subject Research plan.
Multi-Institution Research
When an investigator wished to collaborate with other institutions in addition to Excelsior, they must receive IRB approval from that institution as well. They should submit a copy of the approval letter with the project proposal.
Student Research
All student investigators must have a faculty supervisor who is responsible for insuring that all procedures of the approval are complied with by the investigator. The faculty supervisor must sign the proposal certifying that the project is under her/his supervision.
All student investigators from institutions other than Excelsior must have their research proposal approved by the Review Board at their respective college and provide proof of that approval. They must submit the name and contact information for their faculty member who is overseeing this project.
Informed Consent
"Informed consent" means the knowing consent of an individual, or her/his legally authorized representative, who is able to exercise free power of choice without undue inducement or any form of force, fraud, deceit, duress or other form of constraint or coercion. An investigator shall seek consent only under the following circumstances:
- Sufficient opportunity is provided to the prospective subject or her/his representative, to consider whether or not to participate;
- The possibility of coercion or undue influence is minimized;
- The information that is given to the prospective subject, or her/his representative, shall be in language understandable to the subject or representative; and
- The subject, or her/his representative, cannot be made to waive or appear to waive any of her/his legal rights, or release or appear to release the investigator, the sponsor, the institution or its agents from liability for negligence.
The federal regulations detail the following basic elements of information necessary to such consent:
- A statement that the study involves research, an explanation of the purpose of the research and the expected duration of the subject's participation and a description of the procedures to be followed;
- A description of any foreseeable risks or discomforts to the subject;
- A description of any benefits to the subject or to others that may be reasonably expected from the research;
- A statement describing the extent to which confidentiality of records identifying the subject will be maintained;
- An explanation of whom to contact for answers to pertinent questions about the research and research subjects' rights and whom to contact in the event of a research-related injury;
- A statement that participation is voluntary, refusal to participate will involve no penalty or loss of benefits to which that subject is otherwise entitled and the subject may discontinue participation at any time; and
- For research involving more than minimal risk, an explanation that the College does not have a formal plan or program to provide medical treatment or compensation for any injury which occurs as a result of the subject's participation (the subject should also be informed that this does not waive any of her/his legal rights).
When appropriate, one or more of the following elements of information shall also be provided to each subject:
- A disclosure of appropriate alternative procedures or courses of treatment, if any, that might be advantageous to the subject ;
- An identification of any procedures that are experimental;
- A statement that the research may involve risks to the subject that are currently unforeseeable;
- Anticipated circumstances under which the subject's participation may be terminated without regard to the subject's consent;
- Any additional costs to the subject that may result from participation;
- The consequences of a subject's decision to withdraw from the research and procedures for orderly termination of participation by the subject;
- A statement that significant new findings developed during the course of the research which may relate to the subject's willingness to participate will be provided to the subject; and
- The approximate number of subjects involved in the study.
In projects where subjects are determined to be at risk, the actual procedure utilized in obtaining "legally effective informed consent" must be fully documented. This is accomplished by using a written consent form embodying all of the elements of information required for the project. The consent form must be read by or to the subject or her/his legally authorized representative and signed by the person giving consent. A copy of the consent form should be given to the person signing the form and the signed form must be maintained in the investigator's files for an indefinite period of time following completion of the study.
The Institutional Review Board has designated a sample Volunteer Agreement form (PDF) that can be used as a guide in preparing the consent form that will actually be used in the research project or activity. PLEASE NOTE that the final form that you administer must first be approved by the IRB before it can be legally administered.
In rare cases, where these procedures will surely invalidate important objectives of the project, IRB approval of modified procedures may be sought.
In projects where risk to subjects has been determined to be no more than minimal, provision may be made for oral or written presentation and consent. Under this procedure, the subject is informed of those basic elements of consent which are applicable to low risk procedures and no signed document is necessary on the part of the subject. However, the Board must approve a sample copy of the presentation. A major exception to this policy occurs when research involves persons under the age of 18 as subjects, in which case, written consent from a parent or a guardian is usually required.
In some cases, the IRB may approve a consent procedure which does not include, or which alters some or all of the elements of informed consent or may entirely waive the requirement to obtain informed consent.
Complete the Application for Project Review (PDF) and, if subjects are at risk, the Volunteer Agreement (PDF). Additional forms are available from the chair of the Excelsior College Institutional Review Board. Submit copies of all survey or other data collection instruments and the informed consent letter.
Researchers requesting an expedited review do not need to submit the Volunteer Agreement or Informed Consent pages of this application. All other researchers must include these pages in their application.
All communications to the IRB Committee should be sent through the IRB official email: email@example.com. These messages will be answered in a timely manner.


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December 20, 1999, 11:37:07 AM »
Far be it from me to correct the gallant Sgt. Borntreger (what is it with Marines and Bad Movies? Ed "Plan 9" Woods and Phil "Robot Monster" Tucker were both Marines). Still, the Why We Fight documentaries (at least the ones most famous here) were anti-Nazi propaganda films (and what's wrong with that?) made by Frank Capra, of It's a Wonderful Life fame.
In a way, of course, this makes the satire a bit more obnoxious, though.
I agree that this was a much misunderstood film. The fairly high degree of political commentary remaining from the novel I credit to the fact that it was directed by a European. However, Verhoevan apparently wimped out, and couldn't decide whether to portray an actual, functional Fascist governmental system, or if to satirize Heilein's vision instead. So he tries to do both, the least satisfactory of the available options.
On the other hand, minus the sci-fi elements, one imagines that the instant and horrible carnage suffered by the troops here makes this a more realistic portrayal of battle than almost any other film provides.
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December 20, 1999, 02:02:49 PM »
Hey, Sarge, I see Ken d'Jabootu beat me to the punch on "Why We Fight", but I have to take issue with the "Good movie pretending to be a bad movie" thing. Actually, this is a bad movie pretending to be a good movie pretending to be a bad movie. yes, to be honest, I rather enjoyed it a minute at a time, but overall, it had some insumountable problems. I'm dismayed that a marine could review this movie and not once say "Where the hell is the artillery?" when I can't watch the movie without saying it twenty times. let alone the armor. Did we forget how to build tanks by this time? One lousy Panzer IV could've wiped out that whole planet, let alone an ultramodern hover tank of the expected "Hammer's Slammers" variety. Why were they even down there? I do, in fact, understand the watered down political satire intended, but the combat scenes are central to the process of the pic, and they are tactically painful to watch. If the fascists rule the world in this movie, they must be Italian Fascists, and they got voted into office, cause they never had to fight anybody before but Ethiopians with spears.
But don't get me started on that. Even if the rest of the film was a gem of satire, its medium--that of a war movie--was intrusively bad. All the clever deep meaning can't change that.
Steve "and what idiot designed hand nukes?" James
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December 20, 1999, 06:27:51 PM »
Ken and Steve, I didn't write this review - it came via Max Gardner. As to the screwed up "Why We Fight" section - I didn't proofread the review really, just checked it for spelling errors before posting it. (I was in a hurry last night, so that's my fault.) Ah well, time to go and fix that. I'm quite particular about military equipment when it comes to certain films, though I try to tone it down a bit since most civilians don't really care that such plane is Soviet and such plane is American. Still, in all fairness, a review fitting of the amazing problems this film had could only come via Jabootu - Max didn't quite fire the same rounds at it I would have, but he's not me. I believe the book is a wonderful little piece of work and wish they had stayed true to the ideas, but mourning such things is pretty fruitless. Lastly, please don't call a Marine Corps Sergeant "Sarge."
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December 21, 1999, 09:31:52 AM »
Damn me for an ass!
My apologies to both the intrepid Sgt., (no 'sarge' here, by golly), and to Max as well.
Steve raises a good point as to armor, etc. In fact, the lack of the 'power suits' described in the novel is sort of the basis of that. Ironically, I imagine that they (Verhoevan, et al) didn't want to look like they were stealing the powers suits from the 'Ripley in the Exoskeleton' thing in Aliens, whereas Cameron probably took that bit from...the novel of Starship Troopers. Notice the numerous other tips of the hat to the book in Aliens. Of course, you could also make the argument that Cameron stole the exoskeleton thing from one the of Dean Martin/Matt Helm movies, which contains a comically similar scene.
Really, again though, I apologize for my sloppiness. I mean, Max's name is there, big as life.
Bob Sacamento
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December 23, 1999, 10:31:45 AM »
spoke my mind! thats what I've said about this movie since I was 13! This movie is god-awful! The plot flaws are extremely terrible, even for a bad movie. I might would give this one slime due to the fact that some of the action is ok(though it dosen't make sense either), and that theres some nudity(of a bunch of flat and ugly chicks of course). Otherwords, this movie needs a really big skull.
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December 24, 1999, 12:25:20 AM »
When I first saw the trailer for this movie, the first thing I said, "Where's the damn power armor!" Of course if everyone was wearing power armor, which might have doubled if not tripled the film's budget, you might lose character recognition, as if that really matters. If they did have the 'armor and deployed as by the procedures in the book, rather then going for these panaramic, psuedo 'Normandy Landing styled shots, atleast the 'tatoo: "Death from Above" would have made some sense.
I think that it would be cool if they did play up the fascist styled government more, and had the humans more overtly appear to be the expansionistic war mongers, for once humans are the bad guys, a nice change.
As for nude scenes, the only woman I wanted to see topless and or nude was Denise Richards, sure she's fake, but it's better then flabby reality. Why else would anyone want to see 'Wild Things', until discovering the plot was nice and intricate, and Bill Murray was good as the lawyer.
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August 28, 2001, 11:39:15 PM »
This movie RULES!!!!!! The best film about giant killing bugs ever made! The same guys who made Robocop and Total Recall made this and whoever those guys are, they = rulz!! Nuff said.
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March 27, 2000, 10:20:23 PM »
I fully agree with your evaluation of this film.
By the way, I thought you should know that, the voice you have credited as "Angry Guy" who delivers the line "The only good bug is a dead bug!" is actually the film's Executive Producer, Jon Davison, who also incidentally produced ROBOCOP, also with Verhoeven directing!
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March 28, 2000, 11:44:24 AM »
The satire and "deep" message(s) did not escape me, however this movie still sucked. After skillfully transposing some of the message of the book, Verhoevan then went on to wuss out on the military. If you had to get rid of the power suits for budget sake, why not throw in some TANKS? Was ANY military person involved in this flick? Ever heard of air support? The book had the big armor, which was a essentially a tank anyhow, and air power. The movie had a bunch of jocks wandering around a planet firing glorified M-16s... It was fun watching them die, though.
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May 16, 2000, 03:46:33 AM »
I just didn't understand why the combined might of humanity amounted a platoon of light infantry minus the heavy weapons. I mean even the little green army men we all played with as children had the guy with the radio on his back to call the luftwaffe...er air support, or at least to coordinate activity with the maybe one other platoon the bad bug things were attacked with.
Regarding the references to "Aliens", why, if they wanted to kill the bugs on their home world, did they not just bombard it from orbit? Even from a long range? I mean, you can hit a bridge with modern laser guided munitions (the famous gulf war pics...), seems simple enough to just sit at the top of the gravity well and dump nukes out of a cargo bay.
On the other hand, the beat up spaceships coming back to port near the beginning was cool, and seeing SS Hauptman Doogie was priceless.
Max Gardner
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November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM »
The film was not intended as a faithful adaptation of Heinlein's book. It is not realistic from a military standpoint, nor was it meant to be. It lampooned its source material, twisting Heinlein's work (labeled fascistic at the time of its publication) back on itself to provide a squeaky-clean soap-opera military regime. In the end, both the novel and the film proved uncannily prescient. The novel scares the hell out of me. I prefer the film. It's essentially the difference between whitehouse.gov and whitehouse.org.
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November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM »
Doogie Himmler - ROFLOL!!
Actually, I hate Starship Bloopers with a passion. Homer Simpson accurately described the soldiers in this film when he said 'they were the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked.' What the hell was going on inside those Sky Marshals' heads when they said, 'yeah we'll just drop 100,000 grunts on an unknown planet without any tanks or artillery or air support or even a MASH.' Like, duh? And presumably by the time this story is set the US has conquered Argentina, I suppose? That's the only reason I can come up with for all those California accents in Buenos Aires. As for the performances, well... Did these people just wander in off the set of Baywatch or something? I mean, Denise Richards = babe. Casper van Diem = ex-lifeguard (true!) Neither of them convinced as rough, tough space hombres (hombrettes?). Of the two, Denise Richards is easily the worst, and by far the most irritating character in the film. I was really disappointed when the brain bug passed her up in favour of Zander.
Oh, and those escape capsule things in the Rodger Young... they bore a none-too-subtle resemblance to the Hammerhead cockpits from Space: Above And Beyond, or is that just me being picky about this dreadful mishmash of a movie?
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November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM »
I would watch this a second time simply to see the battle sequences and Michael Ironside again, other than those to reasons, well there just aren't any. Robocop was far superior to this.
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November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM »
This movie makes little sense if you've read the novel, and less if you haven't. I enjoyed the sheer senseless gore, but that's all. It could have been a great movie, and I doubt it was budget constraints that led to its idiocies (power armor is no harder to animate than bugs).
It strikes me that this movie was made by people who /hated/ the book. Heinlein must be rolling in his grave. They cut out everything that made sense, such as the capabilities and uses of the infantry (dropped like bombs from space in flying power armor armed with nukes), and flatly reversed key statements ("these bugs have spaceships, they are obviously smart" to "these are bugs, and can't be smart"; the brain bug was supposed to be a strategic mastermind, a genius among intelligent bugs, not the only intelligent bug). Our Hero was whipped (but not booted out) for f**king up so royally that someone /died/ (in an insanely and needlessly dangerous live-fire training situation), rather than for not treating a harmless sim-nuke like a real nuke; similarly, the trainers were callous and abusive WRT physical damage, rather than sympathetic, though rough (in the movie scene the trainer cruelly spikes the guy's hand with a knife after he asks why they bother with these weapons; in the same scene in the book, it leads into the question of why they don't just use orbital bombardment for everything, and the trainer has a discussion with him about the role of the infantry and suggests that if he has such doubts, perhaps he should drop out).
Incidentally, simple labels like "fascism" don't do the political system in the book justice. Veterans vote, soldiers don't, there's no draft and soldiers can quit any time except during combat (or when facing court martial); by all appearances they have at least the free speech and other personal freedoms of modern-day USA. Most people don't consider it worth the bother to earn a vote, and some openly speak out against the political system (to the annoyance, but not retribution, of the government); there is no evidence of propaganda (outside of public schools, where the "propaganda" presented is not primarily facts, but philosophical arguments). Minor crimes (such as drunk driving) are punished by public lashing, and major crimes (such as murder) by execution (nothing inherently fascist about this, whether you consider it brutal or not; it depends on what laws are being enforced). People complain about "it works because it works" logic explaining the success of their society, but it's actually "we know it works because we've seen it work", which I think was a hint from Heinlein not to accept his vision thoughtlessly: "in the real world we /haven't/ seen it work, so /we/ don't know, it's just an idea".
The movie was built like an effigy of Heinlein soaked in kerosene with boxes of matched piled around it. Burn, straw-man, burn!
Of course, most people don't know Heinlein, either to love him or hate him, so they just got a stupid movie that didn't make any sense.
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November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM »
This movie is cool, but it isn't as gory as everyone says that it is-- lots of movies are gorier than this! But anyway, the special computerized effects are really cool. I liked the brain bug. It's cute... in its own way. But I liked the part where the beetles shoot meteorites out of their butts and the part(s) that were censored. The brain bug one was good, but the cow one where it got ripped to pieces was by far better. I love this film!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Giant Claw
Earth is visited by a GIANT ANTIMATTER SPACE BUZZARD! Gawk at the amazingly bad bird puppet, or chuckle over the silly dialog. This is one of the greatest b-movies ever made.
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Osmosis: os·mo·sis (oz-mo'sis, os-) n., 1. When a bird eats something.
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Young children are much more likely than adults to have adverse drug reactions, so giving your toddler prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) medication – even "herbal" medicines – is serious business. Should your curious toddler accidentally ingest any harmful medication, be sure to keep the number for Poison Control posted near your phone. Here are some medicines you should never give your 12- to 24-month-old.
Never give aspirin or medications containing aspirin to your toddler or to anyone 19 years old or younger. Aspirin can make a child susceptible to Reye's syndrome – a rare but potentially fatal illness.
Don't assume that the children's medicines found in drugstores will be aspirin-free. Read labels carefully (aspirin is sometimes referred to as "salicylate" or "acetylsalicylic acid"), and ask your doctor or pharmacist if you're not sure whether a product is aspirin-free.
For fever and other discomfort, you may want to give your toddler the correct dose of acetaminophen or ibuprofen. However, if your child is dehydrated or vomiting, has asthma, kidney problems, an ulcer, or another long-term illness, talk to your doctor before giving ibuprofen. Also talk with your doctor about an alternative to acetaminophen if your child has liver disease.
Over-the-counter cough and cold medicines
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advises against giving OTC cough and cold medicines to toddlers. Studies show that they don't actually help soothe symptoms in kids this age. And they can be harmful, especially when a child mistakenly gets more than the recommended dose.
In addition to side effects like drowsiness or sleeplessness, upset stomach, and a rash or hives, a child can suffer serious effects such as rapid heart rate, convulsions, and even death. Every year, thousands of children end up in emergency rooms across the nation after swallowing too much cough and cold medicine.
However, over the past few years emergency visits involving infants and toddlers who take too much of these medications have dropped in half. Health experts attribute the drop to manufacturers, who no longer market cough and cold medicines to young children. If your toddler's miserable with a cold, you may want to try a humidifier or other home remedies.
Anti-nausea medications
Don't give your toddler an anti-nausea medication (prescription or OTC) unless her doctor specifically recommends it. Most bouts of vomiting are pretty short-lived, and children usually handle them just fine without any medication. In addition, anti-nausea medications have risks and possible complications. (If your child is vomiting and begins to get dehydrated, contact her doctor for advice on what to do.)
Infant and adult medications
Giving your toddler a smaller dose of medicine meant for an adult is as dangerous as giving a higher dose of medicine meant for an infant. Many parents don't realize that infant drops are more concentrated than liquid medicine intended for older children. If the label doesn't indicate an appropriate dose for the weight and age of your child, don't give that medication to your toddler.
Any medication prescribed for someone else or for another condition
Prescription drugs intended for other people (like a sibling) or to treat other illnesses may be ineffective or even dangerous when given to your toddler. Give your toddler only medicine prescribed for him and his specific condition.
Anything expired
Toss out medicines, prescription and OTC alike, as soon as they expire. Also get rid of discolored or crumbly medicines – basically anything that doesn't look the way it did when you first bought it. After the use-by date, medications may no longer be effective and can even be harmful.
In general, it's not a good idea to flush old drugs down the toilet, as they may contaminate groundwater and end up in the drinking water supply. However, a few drugs are so potentially harmful to children that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends disposing of them in the toilet rather than the trash.
Look at the label of the medicine to find out if it should be flushed. If you're not sure, ask your pharmacist what to do with it or find out if your community has a drug take-back program for old and expired medicines.
If a drug doesn't need to be flushed and no take-back program is available, empty the contents of the medicine bottle into a sealed container with something unpalatable (like kitty litter or coffee grounds) before throwing it out. Don't crush tablets or capsules when you mix the medicine with the undesirable substance. Remove any personal information from the empty bottle before disposing of it alongside the sealed container of medicine in the trash.
Extra acetaminophen
Some medicines contain acetaminophen to help ease fever and pain, so be careful not to give your toddler an additional separate dose of acetaminophen. If you're not sure what's in a particular medicine, don't give her acetaminophen or ibuprofen until you've first gotten the okay from your doctor or pharmacist.
For most toddlers, chewable tablets are a choking hazard. If you want to use a chewable tablet, ask your child's doctor or pharmacist if it's okay to crush it first and put in a spoonful of soft food, like yogurt or applesauce. (Remember that you'll need to make sure your child eats the entire spoonful of food in order to get the complete dose of medicine.)
Syrup of ipecac
Syrup of ipecac causes vomiting and used to be kept handy to prevent poisoning. Doctors no longer recommend syrup of ipecac mainly because there's no evidence that vomiting helps in the treatment of poisoning. In fact, syrup of ipecac may do more harm than good if a child continues to vomit after ingesting a remedy that has been shown to help, such as activated charcoal.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends throwing out any syrup of ipecac you have in your home and says the best way to prevent accidental poisoning is to keep potentially harmful substances locked up and out of sight.


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TORONTO — It was after midnight, after the gala showing of director Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity" at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, after the wildly emotional standing ovation, after actress Sandra Bullock in a stunning black-and-white sheath waded into waves of raves for her performance at the film's after-party, that a sense of certainty about "Gravity's" pull settled in.
Walking back to the hotel under a starry sky that Cuarón will never let me take for granted again, I knew the afterburn of Bullock's performance would linger for years.
If it's a good year at the festival, I'll see something rare amid all the praising, red-carpet parading and Oscar-hopeful strutting. A seminal moment in an actor's career. And Bullock's otherworldly turn in "Gravity" was exactly that.
It came in a very specific scene in Cuarón's magnificent contemplation of the human spirit, when the engineer Dr. Ryan Stone, who Bullock portrays, is alone in the space module.
Suspended, floating, pressing buttons, checking gauges, she moves with the slow drag of a weightless world. The spacesuit's bulk has been shucked off. Cuarón is shooting from the side. With Bullock's hair cropped short, her body nearly bare, the light softly filtering in, the scene looks embryonic. Feels embryonic. Is embryonic.
Dr. Stone is one of those irrepressibly courageous characters that moviegoers absolutely love. Empowering to women, unthreatening to men, she is the sort of hero who is brought down to earth not so much by flaws as very relatable fears. Beyond the significant philosophical life-and-death ones born of a major crisis swirling around her, it's the more grounded ones about the very ordinariness of the way we tend to move through our days that make Ryan so compelling.
How the movie industry will feel is another matter, because "Gravity" is very likely to upset its moneymaking apple cart where Bullock is concerned.
In Ryan, the actress puts Hollywood on notice that she will no longer be content with the plucky, sincere and slightly silly girl-next-door niche she's owned since quirky Annie Porter slipped behind the wheel of "Speed's" explosive bus in 1994. Nor will she only say "yes" to romantic-comedy proposals, which are abundant and seem close to demanding an exclusive commitment.
I don't mean to suggest we will lose her in that form, for comedy without Bullock would be a tragedy.
There is a great physicality and a fearlessness in her work. Her willingness to look foolish, to offset that all-American beauty with bone-deep awkwardness, is rather legendary. She flails, she falls, she giggles, she snorts. She literally rolls around in the ridiculous like a kid in fresh snow. Bullock's brand of funny, when she's on, is exhilarating to watch.
It's made her irresistible in one role after another: her coma-crush on Bill Pullman in 1995's "While You Were Sleeping," her undercover cop tottering on heels with Benjamin Bratt in 2000's "Miss Congeniality," her uptight Canadian (is that redundant?) demanding a visa-approved marriage with Ryan Reynolds in 2009's "The Proposal."
Even her Oscar turn in "The Blind Side" as Leigh Anne Tuohy, a Memphis mom who takes in a kid from the projects, played to her strengths. Or at least the ones we are most familiar with. The crisp precision she brings to dialogue. The way she adjusts every muscle to match her character. In Tuohy, the telegraphing of a kind of brittle confidence and absolute surety that in other hands would have proved off-putting.
The academy awarded her and fans adored her. Even those who criticized the film for yet another story of an African American saved by a white character, didn't sling their barbs her way.
"Gravity" comes at a particularly good time. The actress is already in a power position, not in need of a career boost.
Bullock just turned an impossibly young-looking 49. By now, most have forgotten that she was something of a wild child in her early days. Her failed marriage to bad-boy Jesse James is a fading memory. She has that Oscar on her shelf, and should consider making room for another.
When not working, the actress seems to lead a quietly settled life that includes spending time away from Hollywood's glare in her young son's birthplace of New Orleans, and increasingly the down-home comfort of Austin, Texas. Which of course in my mind is basically Mecca with cowboy boots, so perfect.
For all the nesting she's doing on the home front, taking the role in "Gravity" was a risk. It required stretching far outside her comfort zone to reach a level of emotionality and vulnerability that we've not seen from the actress before.
There have certainly been films along the way that allowed her go deeper and darker. Her bruised socialite in "Crash," her 9/11 widowed single-mother in "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close," her writer in Capote's shadows in "Infamous," among them.
But they were barely warm-ups for the trust exercise Cuarón demanded of her in "Gravity." It is a free-fall, really, that he asked for, one with major implications. She not only took it, but in doing so, pulls off a breathtaking landing.


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Five weeks after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed a gun control law outlawing any retail sales for the entire product line of Stag Arms, the maker of military-style rifles unveiled a new design Thursday that its owner said will not be subject to the Connecticut ban.
From the outside, the new firearm looks identical to other Stag rifles, complete with matte black finish, pistol grip and adjustable stock. Stag owner Mark Malkowski showed a prototype of the new rifle in the shipping room of his New Britain plant, explaining why he feels certain that it's legal.
It's not a radical new concept. The gun fires smaller bullets, which are allowed under the new law even in a military-style rifle.
The new model will only be available in Connecticut, said Malkowski, who founded the company 10 years ago. But he said he's not in any way trying to defy the state.
"Nothing could be further from the truth," Malkowski said. "My only intention here is to sell a product in the state where I reside, to people who have supported me for a decade."
Compliance, not defiance, as a colleague says.
The main change is that the gun has a redesigned bolt carrier, the 5-inch long, cylindrical fitting that moves the bullet from the magazine to its firing position. It carries .22-caliber bullets of the sort fired by millions of people, including children at camps, rather than the longer, more powerful .223-caliber Remington rounds used in Stag Arms' line of AR-15 rifles.
Some .22-caliber rifles in the AR-15 platform are already on the market, made by companies including O.F. Mossberg & Sons in North Haven. With about one-third the firing velocity and a much smaller overall size, the .22-caliber bullets are far less lethal than the .223-caliber rounds, which are virtually identical to the bullets widely used by soldiers in fully automatic assault rifles.
Malkowski said he intends to seek approval from the state police firearms unit, which is charged with interpreting the 139-page law. He's certain that there's no problem, but wants to check with authorities as a courtesy, and so they'll be able to answer questions about the guns.
The firearms unit is already plenty busy answering questions about what guns may be transferred to which customers, based on subtle issues in the law — and it must help devise systems for the state's new rifle registration, registration of magazines that carry more than 10 rounds and increased background checks.
'A Lot of Buzz'
But even if the redesign is approved, Malkowski said, he still might move all or part of his company — which now has 200 people in a four-building complex in New Britain — to another state that does not restrict sales of his rifles. Last week, Malkowski was at the National Rifle Association's annual convention in Houston, where he met with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who's actively wooing gun makers from states that have enacted tighter controls.
"There's more factors that are in place with that," he said.
The main issue that will determine a move is how much other states offer, and how customers around the nation will react to Connecticut gun makers in the aftermath of the ban. The local firearms firms, including the Colt companies, worry that sales will fall if gun owners — a famously cantankerous bunch — boycott Connecticut brands. Federal law requires all firearms to have the location of their manufacture prominently stamped on the product, and many gun rights advocates don't want "CT" on their firearms.
"We have seen a slowdown," Malkowski said. "We're not sure if it's 100 percent affected by that."
The slowdown, however, is judged from a very brisk pace that was strong throughout 2012 and gained more speed after the Newtown tragedy, with the threat of bans. Malkowski said he's able to make just more than 6,000 rifles a month, and has an eight-month backlog of orders.
The new rifles could be shipped by the end of this month, and among the first buyers is John Napierski, co-owner JOJO's Gun Works in Southington, who ordered a few dozen. It was Napierski who sold the first-ever Stag rifle, after Malkowski founded the company in part to advance his innovation of firearms for people who aim with their left eye and shoot with their left forefinger.
"There's a lot of buzz about the new products coming out from Stag," Napierski said. His store previously depended on rifles that are now banned for about 40 percent of its business, but that's been made up, he said, with custom gunsmithing. Some stores that don't have such a specialty are suffering.
Spirit of the Law
Some people who support the law are critical of Malkowski's newest effort.
"If people are going to try to design around what the ban is, then that's violating the spirit of the law and clearly by their own statements, that's what they're doing," said Ron Pinciaro, executive director of Connecticut Against Gun Violence. "If this law had not been passed, would they be designing this weapon?"
Opponents of the law, and some who support it, say that any manufacturer's modifications to meet new rules are just plain Yankee ingenuity.
Another possible variation is a version that saws off the pistol grip. That would make the gun legal in Connecticut because the ban affects firearms that are semi-automatic, with detachable magazines and one or more military features, such as the pistol grip or a flash suppressor at the end of the barrel.
On April 4, when Malloy signed the bill, Malkowski showed me a sawed-off version of an AR-15 in his office. On Thursday, he was coy about whether he'll build one of those. "We have a lot of things in development, always," he said.
There might be some question about the legality of the redesigned version if it's easily converted back to an illegal model. But that can't happen, Malkowski said, because the .22-caliber model lacks the gas pressure system that makes a gun with larger rounds semi-automatic.
It is semi-automatic, meaning that it fires immediately with every pull of the trigger, based on a "blowback" mechanism using the gun's recoil. Replacing the new bolt carrier with a traditional one would allow an owner to fire larger bullets, but not with semi-automatic action.
I'm in the group that thinks this is all good Yankee ingenuity because, after all, the law did not necessarily ban the most deadly weapons out there — it banned the ones that have the menacing features found on assault rifles, such as pistol grips, combined with the more powerful rounds.
Here you have two identical guns in look, features and function, one of them apparently legal because it uses a smaller caliber bullet — even though some guns that are semi-automatic, with detachable magazines and much larger, .308-caliber rounds, are still legal in Connecticut simply because they don't have a pistol grip.
Malkowski doesn't even consider the new version an AR-15 at all. As proof, he heads to a back room and takes out yet another model that looks and feels like his regular line of banned firearms — except that it has an orange tip and fires tiny plastic pellets. He licensed another company to make it a few years ago.
"It's a toy," Malkowski said, "but some people in law enforcement use it for training."
The latest, .22-caliber version is definitely not a toy, but it's just as surely not a weapon that Malloy and lawmakers intended to ban. It only looks like one.


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STOCKTON - You can learn a lot from Goldfish crackers and fresh broccoli, but not necessarily what you expect.
STOCKTON - You can learn a lot from Goldfish crackers and fresh broccoli, but not necessarily what you expect.
Most parents would prefer for their small children to eat the healthier choice, saying "yum" to the broccoli as a persuasive demonstration. Good luck.
What most moms and dads aren't aware of is that children, even those as young as 1, are more aware than you realize in an exchange like that. They may not have figured out how you're trying to manipulate them, but they know the difference between crackers and a green vegetable.
In their mind, "yum" could mean you like broccoli - and that's OK as your choice, not theirs. And don't be surprised if they're being altruistic in giving you a floret.
Alison Gopnik, a nationally recognized expert in developmental psychology, told 150 or so educators Friday that understanding the mind of a baby is undergoing an academic revolution.
"Thirty years ago, we saw them as amoral, irrational, self-centered and lacking in understanding," she said. "In fact, they are amazing learning machines. Children are our research and development department. Adults are marketing and production."
Gopnik, a 58-year-old University of California, Berkeley, professor, said children at the earliest stages of life are intuitive, analytical, explorers and great observers of human behavior.
She was the keynote speaker at a University of the Pacific Beyond Our Gates Dialogue. The event was hosted by the San Joaquin County Office of Education.
Gopnik, author of four books and more than 100 journal articles, presented video clips of several experiments demonstrating precise cognitive function in very young children.
"I work in a preschool setting, and I would say that a lot of children find ways to work around the obstacles," said Stockton resident Diana Espinosa, a 67-year-old site supervisor with Creative Child Care Inc. "I've been doing this for 23 years, and every year there is a new set of children - and they are all individuals. And that's beautiful."
Espinosa agreed with Gopnik's presentation.
"When you see babies start crawling, they start using their brain pulling, pushing, standing and exercising their motor skills."
Gopnik, using humor and a PowerPoint presentation, illustrated how cognitive connections start early as children learn how to learn. "They can be clever and sophisticated," she said. "And the main way they learn is watching others."
Gopnik also redefined the terrible twos as a time of intense psychological study. "It's purposeful," she said. "Children are experimenting with 'what happens when I do what you don't want me to do.' "
Contact reporter Kevin Parrish at (209) 546-8264 or email@example.com.


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Egyptians flocked to Tahrir square today in protest against the decree that grants exceptional power to President Morsi, and against the Muslim Brotherhood in general. Some protesters threw stones and the police fired tear gas.
Size matters when it comes to such protests, but it also difficult reliably to measure. The Washington Post estimated the Tahrir square crowd at about 20,000. In Alexandria, an anti-Morsi protest contingent was estimated at around 15,000.
These numbers aren't insubstantial. They fall, I suspect, somewhere in between the size that can be ignored and the size that represents a possible tipping point. The government must decide whether to hope things blow over or to try to put an end to the protests. The former option carries no disincentive for continued protest. The latter might create a new incentive to protest.
Even more than size, the military matters in these affairs. Not long ago, the military was a potential counter-balance to Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. As such, it likely would have deterred Morsi from issuing the decree that spurred the protests. And, in the event of protests, it likely would have limited Morsi's range of possible responses.
But the Obama administration refused to stand behind the conservative military leaders who constrained Morsi, and these leaders have been pushed aside. Thus, with the U.S. refusing to condemn Morsi's power grab, the street protesters, currently undermanned, seem to be on their own.


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The moon is a space craft
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The moon is a space craft
I found this stored on my computer and i found it a fun read, either way the article does raise an eye brow , if you had never considered these types of thoughts.
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum. – George Bernard Shaw.
… I was sitting at the computer writing this book when I had the overwhelming feeling out of 'nowhere' that the Moon was not 'real'. By 'real', I mean not a 'heavenly body', but an artificial construct (or a hollowed-out planetoid) that has been put there to control life on Earth – which it does. I have pondered on this possibility a few times over the years, but this time I just 'knew'. It was like an enormous penny had suddenly dropped…
When the very powerful intuition hit me, I went on the Internet to see if there was anything about the Moon being artificial. Within a couple of minutes, I found a book called Who Built the Moon? by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler. Knight and Butler also worked together on another book, Civilization One; and Knight was the author of The Hiram Key, an investigation into the origins of Freemasonry. Their book about the Moon arrived in a few days, and I read it immediately. Other information about the Moon was coming to me by that time and a familiar pattern was emerging. First a new subject comes into my life and then information about it comes from all angles. Who Built the Moon? details many extraordinary mathematical and other connections between the Moon, Earth and the Sun. The key to these alignments and connections is the size, position and movement of the Moon. It is well beyond miraculous 'chance' that the Moon is what it is and where it is. Moon anomalies are so many and so various that Irwin Shapiro, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said: 'The best explanation for the Moon is observational error – the Moon doesn't exist.' Knight and Butler write:
The Moon is bigger than it should be, apparently older than it should be and much lighter in mass than it should be. It occupies an unlikely orbit and is so extraordinary that all existing explanations for its presence are fraught with difficulties and none of them could be considered remotely watertight.
Isaac Asimov, a Russian professor of biochemistry and writer of popular science books, said that the Moon, which has no atmosphere and no magnetic field, is basically a freak of nature in that Earth is the only planet in the solar system orbited by a satellite so enormous in relation to the world it circles. It is bigger than the planet Pluto. Some scientists have even called it a twin-planet system, rather than a planet and a satellite. Asimov said that by all cosmic laws, the Moon should not be orbiting Earth. He went on:
… we cannot help but come to the conclusion that the Moon by rights ought not to be there. The fact that it is, is one of those strokes of luck almost too good to accept … Small planets, such as Earth, with weak gravitational fields, might well lack satellites …
… In general, then, when a planet does have satellites, those satellites are much smaller than the planet itself. Therefore, even if the Earth has a satellite, there would be every reason to suspect … that at best it would be a tiny world, perhaps 30 miles in diameter. But that is not so. Earth not only has a satellite, but it is a giant satellite, 2,160 miles in diameter. How is it then, that tiny Earth has one? Amazing.
There are so many anomalies with the Moon. It has no magnetic field, and yet moon rocks are magnetised. It has the phenomenon known as 'mascons' (mass concentrations), which are large circular areas of unusually high density and a higher gravitational 'pull'. Don Wilson, author of Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon, says it appears that mascons could be some kind of artificial construction. They are found in the vast plains on the Moon known as 'maria' that were once believed to be seas. About a third of the Moon facing the Earth is made up of these maria while there are few on the 'dark side', and no-one can explain why the two sides are so different.
The Moon produces precisely the same seismic vibrational effects every time it moves closer to the Earth. How can this be if it is a natural phenomenon that would be bound to change over time? New York Times writer, Walter Sullivan, said it was 'as though the ups and downs of the stockmarket repeated themselves precisely for each period of fluctuation'.
The oldest rocks collected from the Moon are far older than any found on Earth. Some moon rocks are said to date back 4.5 billion years and that makes them a billion years older than any found on this planet. Harvard's astronomy journal, Sky and Telescope, reported that the 1973 Lunar Conference was told how one moon rock was dated at 5.3 billion years old. This would make it nearly a billion years older than the predicted age of Earth. The rocks were also discovered to have a different composition to the lunar dust in which they were found, and the dust has apparently been estimated to be a billion years older than the rocks. Huh?
Science has no idea where the Moon came from and how it was formed, and none of its theories stand up to scrutiny. One theory was that it was captured by the Earth's magnetic field, but the science of that doesn't add up. Another is that a body the size of Mars smashed into the Earth and a great chunk of the Earth broke off to form the Moon. This is known as the 'Big Whack' theory, but when the science of that didn't stand up, either, someone postured the 'Double Big Whack' theory. This is that the 'Mars' planet smacked into the Earth and then came back for another go. Talk about desperate. The truth is that they have no idea where the Moon came from or how it came to be where it is. Earl Ubell, a former science editor with CBS, asked:
If the Earth and Moon were created at the same time, near each other, why has one got all the iron and the other [the Moon] not much? The differences suggest that Earth and Moon came into being far from each other, an idea that stumbles over the inability of astrophysicists to explain how exactly the Moon became a satellite of Earth.
Extraordinary 'Coincidences'
Christopher Knight and Alan Butler reveal in Who Built the Moon? many remarkable mathematical connections with regard to the Moon, Earth and the Sun using the base number of ten. These mathematical synchronicities only work with these three bodies and not with any of the other planets or moons in the solar system.
The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, and at a solar eclipse it is 400 times closer to Earth. This makes the Moon appear from Earth to be the same size as the Sun – hence a total eclipse.
The Moon has astonishing synchronicity with the Sun. When the Sun is at its lowest and weakest in mid-winter, the Moon is at its highest and brightest, and the reverse occurs in mid-summer. Both set at the same point on the horizon at the equinoxes and at the opposite point at the solstices. What are the chances that the Moon would naturally find an orbit so perfect that it would cover the Sun at an eclipse and appear from Earth to be the same size? What are chances that the alignments would be so perfect at the equinoxes and solstices?
The Moon always shows the same side or 'face' to the Earth during the period when we can see it. We never see what is called the 'dark' or far side of the Moon from the Earth. This is due to the synchronicity of the Moon's rotation. It rotates on its axis in about the same time it takes to orbit the Earth, and this means that the same 'face' is turned towards Earth at all times. The Moon's rotation is extremely slow compared with Earth's, and in the time it takes for the Moon to complete just one turn, Earth will rotate more than 27 times.
Earth rotates at a speed 400 times faster than the Moon, and turns 40,000 kilometres on its axis in a day to the Moon's 400. Earth spins 366.259 times during one orbit of the Sun, and the polar circumference of the Earth is 366.175 times bigger than that of the Moon. The polar circumference of the Moon is 27.31 per cent the size of the earth and the Moon makes 27.396 turns per orbit of the Earth. Knight and Butler say that if you multiply the circumference of the Moon by that of the Earth, the result is 436,669,140 kilometres. If this number is divided by 100 it becomes 436,669 kilometres – the circumference of the Sun correct to 99.9 per cent.
If you divide the circumference of the Sun by that of the Moon and multiply by 100 you get the circumference of the Earth. Divide the size of the Sun by the size of the Earth and multiply by 100 and you get the size of the Moon. The writers correctly conclude that the number-play involved with the Earth-Moon-Sun system is 'nothing less than staggering', and the Moon appears to have been inserted into the Sun-Earth relationship 'with the accuracy of the proverbial Swiss watchmaker'.
Knight and Butler also say that the Moon, Earth and the Sun are encoded with the unit of measurement known as the 'megalithic yard'. This was discovered by Professor Alexander Thom, a Scottish engineer, when he made a detailed study of stone circles, such as Stonehenge, and other megalithic structures in Britain and France. He found that they all used a standard measurement equal to 0.829 metres (or 2.72 feet) and he called this the 'megalithic yard'. Knight and Butler say that the circumferences of the Moon, Earth and the Sun all conform to the megalithic yard. They write:
This all seemed very odd. The Megalithic structures that were built across Western Europe were frequently used to observe the movements of the Sun and the Moon, but how could the unit of measure upon which these structures were based be so beautifully integer to the circumference of these bodies as well as the Earth?
I would say that it is because the Reptilians who control the Moon were also involved in the building of the Megalithic structures. Knight and Butler say that megalithic-yard mathematics can be found in other units of measurement such as the pound and the pint. The ancients worked with a circle based on 366 degrees to match the number of Earth rotations in an orbit of the Sun, a number dictated by the position and influence of the Moon on Earth's speed of spin. The Sumerians changed the mathematics when they introduced the 360-degree circle and the units of 60 minutes and 60 seconds.
Hollow Moon
There are countless indications that the Moon is hollow, and it is acknowledged that the core is far less dense than the outer layers. Some scientists say it may even have no core at all. NASA scientist, Dr Gordon MacDonald, said in the early 1960s that 'it would seem that the Moon is more like a hollow than a homogeneous sphere'. He surmised that the data must have been wrong – but it wasn't. MacDonald was right the first time. Dr Sean C Solomon of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said the Lunar Orbiter experiments had vastly improved knowledge of the Moon's gravitational field and indicated the 'frightening possibility that the Moon might be hollow'. Cosmologist, Carl Sagan, made the point that 'a natural satellite cannot be a hollow object'.
The Moon has only 60 per cent of the density of Earth, and an equal amount of Earth material would appear to weigh almost twice as much as that of the Moon. This has led some scientists to believe that the Moon either does not have an iron core and/or that it is partially hollow.
A team at the University of Arizona said they believed that the Moon does have a core, but that it is tiny. Lon Hood, the team leader, said: 'We knew that the Moon's core was small, but we didn't know it was this small … This really does add weight to the idea that the Moon's origin is unique, unlike any other terrestrial body – Earth, Venus, Mars or Mercury.' Yeah, it's artificial.
The Apollo 12 mission to the Moon in November 1969 set up seismometers and then intentionally crashed the Lunar Module causing an impact equivalent to one ton of TNT. The shockwaves built up for eight minutes, and NASA scientists said the Moon 'rang like a bell'. Maurice Ewing, a co-director of the seismic experiment, told a news conference that he had no idea why this had happened: 'As for the meaning of it, I'd rather not make an interpretation right now, but it is as though someone had struck a bell, say, in the belfry of a church a single blow and found that the reverberation from it continued for 30 minutes.' Dr Frank Press from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said that for a 'rather small impact' to produce an effect that lasted for 30 minutes was 'quite beyond the range of our experience'. The Apollo 13 mission to the Moon in 1970 was aborted due to potentially catastrophic technical problems, and the Saturn V launch vehicle, weighing 15 tonnes, was crashed into the Moon about 100 miles from where the previous mission had left the seismometer. When the launch vehicle made impact with the equivalent of eleven tonnes of TNT, NASA scientists said the Moon 'reacted like a gong' and continued to vibrate for three hours and twenty minutes to a depth of up to 25 miles. Ken Johnson was a supervisor of the Data and Photo Control department during the Apollo missions, working for a company contracted to NASA. He told Who Built the Moon? author, Alan Butler, that the Moon not only rang like a bell, but the whole Moon 'wobbled' in such a precise way that it was 'almost as though it had gigantic hydraulic damper struts inside it'. All of which would explain why the Moon vibrates in exactly the same way every time it moves closer to Earth. The Moon was hit by a meteor with the power of 200 tonnes of TNT in 1972. This unleashed enormous shockwaves deep into the interior, but none came back.
The outer surface of the Moon is extremely hard and contains minerals like titanium. Moon rocks have been found to contain processed metals, including brass and mica, and the elements uranium 236 and neptunium 237 that have never been found to occur naturally. Uranium 236 is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste and is found in spent nuclear fuel and reprocessed uranium. Neptunium 237 is a radioactive metallic element and a by-product of nuclear reactors and the production of plutonium. How the heck did this stuff get into Moon rocks? They also found iron particles that don't rust, and again, this does not happen naturally.
The Moon is a Spacecraft
Two members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences wrote an article in 1970 in the Soviet Sputnik magazine called 'Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?'. I would answer that question with a resounding 'Yes'. Mikhail Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov suggested that the Moon was a planetoid that had been hollowed out using huge machines by unknown beings with highly advanced technology. If this technology was nuclear in nature it would explain the presence of the uranium 236 and neptunium 237. Vasin and Shcherbakov said the machines would have melted rock to form cavities within the Moon and the lava would have poured out onto the surface to produce a lunar landscape made from metallic rocky slag. They said that for whatever reason the Moon was eventually placed in orbit around the Earth. This is part of what they wrote in Sputnik magazine:
If you are going to launch an artificial sputnik, then it is advisable to make it hollow. At the same time it would be naïve to imagine that anyone capable of such a tremendous space project would be satisfied simply with some kind of giant empty trunk hurled into near-Earth trajectory.
It is more likely that what we have here is a very ancient spaceship, the interior of which was filled with fuel for the engines, materials and appliances for repair work, navigation instruments, observation equipment and all manner of machinery … in other words, everything necessary to enable this 'caravelle of the Universe' to serve as a Noah's Ark of intelligence, perhaps even as the home of a whole civilisation envisaging a prolonged (thousands of millions of years) existence and long wanderings through space (thousands of millions of miles).
Naturally, the hull of such a spaceship must be super-tough in order to stand up to the blows of meteorites and sharp fluctuations between extreme heat and extreme cold. Probably the shell is a double-layered affair – the basis a dark armouring of about 20 miles in thickness, and outside it some kind of more loosely-packed covering (a thinner layer – averaging about three miles). In certain areas – where the lunar 'seas' and 'craters' are, the upper layer is quite thin, in some cases, non-existent.
The facts support this thesis and explain the long list of anomolies. Dr D L Anderson, a professor of geophysics and director of the seismological laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, said 'the Moon is made inside out' and that its inner and outer compositions should be the other way round. Vasin and Shcherbakov said that material inside the Moon was brought to the surface to make the outer shell. The thinner outer layer, averaging about two and a half to three miles, but sometimes going deeper, would explain why moon craters are nothing like as deep as they should be given the width of the impact. They are uniformly shallow. Foreign bodies like meteorites are prevented from going deeper when they hit the 'dark armouring of about 20 miles in thickness'. Vasin and Shcherbakov said that when a meteorite strikes the Moon the outer layer plays the role of a buffer before the foreign body strikes the impenetrable 20- mile armour plating, which is only slightly dented. 'Bearing in mind that the Moon's defence coating is, according our calculations, 2.5 miles thick, one sees that this is approximately the maximum depth of the craters.' They pointed out that surface lunar rocks have been found to contain titanium, chromium and circonium, which are all metals 'with refractory, mechanically-strong and anticorrosive properties'. 'Refractory' metals are extraordinarily resistant to heat and to wear, and the scientists said that the combination found on the surface of the Moon would have 'enviable resistance to heat and the ability to stand up to means of aggression'. Vasin and Shcherbakov continue:
If a material had to be devised to protect a giant artificial satellite from the unfavourable effects of temperature, from cosmic radiation and meteorite bombardment, the experts would probably have hit upon precisely these metals. In that case is it not clear why lunar rock is such an extraordinarily poor heat conductor – a factor which so amazed the astronauts? Wasn't that what the designers of this supersputnik of the Earth were after? From the engineers' point of view, this spaceship of ages long past which we call the Moon is superbly constructed.
Some lunar rocks have been found to contain ten times more titanium than titaniumrich rocks on Earth. Titanium is used in supersonic jets, deep-diving submarines and spacecraft. Dr Harold Urey, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, said he was 'terribly puzzled by the rocks from the Moon and in particular their titanium content'. He said the samples were 'mind-blowers' and that he could not account for the titanium. Dr S Ross Taylor, the geochemist in charge of lunar chemical analysis, said the problem was that maria plains the size of Texas had to be covered with melted rock containing fluid titanium. He said you would not expect titanium ever to be hot enough to do that, even on Earth, and no one had ever suggested that the Moon was hotter than Earth. What could distribute titanium in this way? Highly advanced technology developed and operated by entities that are immensely more technologically advanced than humans.
Vasin and Shcherbakov say that the strange variations in gravitation fields called 'mascons' in the flat maria plains can be explained from this perspective. The maria are areas from which the protective coating was torn from the armour cladding, and to make good the damage 'the installation producing the repair substance would have had to be brought immediately beneath the site so that it could flood the area with its 'cement' – a lava-like material.' The resulting flat stretches are what look like seas to the terrestrial observer, the scientists say, and 'the stocks of materials and machinery for doing this are no doubt still where they were, and are sufficiently massive to give rise to these gravitational anomalies'. The enormously different ages of lunar rocks and lunar dust can be explained by the cosmic travels of the spaceship Moon in which it would have picked up material from many places and of many ages. The Moon has a large bulge on the 'dark side' that can only be satisfactorily explained by the immense strength of a spaceship hull preventing the Moon from breaking apart. Unexplained eruptions of water vapour have been detected over areas of the Moon of some 100 square miles, with some reports saying they are coming from beneath the surface. Farouk El Baz, who worked with NASA on the scientific exploration of the Moon, said: 'If water vapour is coming from the Moon's interior this is serious. It means that there is a drastic distinction between the different phases of the lunar interior – that the interior is quite different from what we have seen on the surface.' Vasin and Shcherbakov said there are gases within the Moon which creates an atmosphere that sustains life. If they escaped to the surface from time to time it would explain the vapour clouds that have bewildered scientists. Author and researcher Don Wilson lists some of the major lunar mysteries in his book, Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon, but they can be explained once we realise that the Moon is an artificially-constructed spacecraft. These 'mysteries' include:
Why the Moon is a freak world – too big and too far out to be a natural satellite of Earth?
Why the Moon has such shallow craters?
Why and how the Moon can sustain its bulge?
Why some moon rocks are older than Earth, and as old (at least) as the solar system?
Why the Moon seems 'inside out'?
The various mysteries of the maria and mascons?
How the Moon can be a dry-as-dust world and yet have occasional clouds of water vapour?
Why the Moon vibrates like a 'huge gong', transmitting tremors great distances around and through itself?
How the Moon can produce so many contradictions of data and findings?
I hadn't read any of this until I had that overwhelming feeling at my computer that the Moon was artificial and was being used to control life on this planet. It is the Reptilians' control system. The placement of the Moon dictates the speed of Earth's rotation and the angle at which it rotates – 22.5 degrees from vertical. This angle creates the four seasons because of the way planet faces the Sun during its annual orbit. The Moon has a major influence on the tides – far more than the Sun – and with the human body consisting of some 70 per cent water it is bound to have a fantastic influence on us, even on that level alone. The Moon also dictates so much of our relationship with time, and the term 'month' is really Moonth, a period based on the cycles of the Moon. The realisation that the Moon is a gigantic spacecraft is the strand that connects all the rest, not just in relation to Moon anomalies, but also to life on Earth and the conspiracy to enslave humanity. The fact is that the Reptilians in the Moon and in underground bases on Mars depend on humans and the Earth for food – their very survival. This is one key reason why they are desperate not to be exposed. Water and other resources are constantly being taken from this planet to the Moon and Mars and this is not a new phenomena, either. Ancient Zulu stories say the same.
Interestingly, the Sumerian accounts of the Anunnaki say that they came to Earth to mine gold and they genetically-engineered their human slave population to do this in Africa. In early 2010, the Pakistan Daily, an online news agency, ran a story that apparently no one in the mainstream media would touch. It alleged that vast amounts of gold bars all over the world had gone missing to be replaced by tungsten bars with a gold coating. Tungsten apparently has exactly the same density as gold, to three decimal places. The Pakistan Daily article said that during the Bill Clinton administration, in which financial policy was controlled by Robert E Rubin (Rothschild Zionist), Larry Summers (Rothschild Zionist) and Alan Greenspan (Rothschild Zionist), 'between 1.3 and 1.5 million 400 oz tungsten blanks were allegedly manufactured by a very high-end, sophisticated refiner in the USA' – more than 16 thousand metric tonnes. Subsequently, it said, 640,000 of these tungsten blanks received their gold plating and were shipped to the US 'gold' depository at Fort Knox where they remain to this day. The article reported that in October 2009 the Chinese received a shipment of gold bars in payment of debts and the government asked that special tests be performed to guarantee their purity and weight. Four small holes were drilled into the bars and the metal analysed. Officials were shocked to learn, the article claimed, that the 'gold' bars were fake. They were made of tungsten with only a outer coating of gold. The bars contained serial numbers for tracking purposes, the article went on, and they proved that the bars originated in the US and had been stored in Fort Knox for years. The shipment reportedly consisted of between 5,600 to 5,700 bars. The House of Rothschild has always been the dominant force in the global gold market and the price of gold was set every day at the offices of N M Rothschild in London from 1919 until 2004 when the Rothschilds suddenly announced that they were withdrawing from the gold market. Mmmm. More to know about all this, for sure. What if gold is essential to sustain activities in the Moon? If so, how much of the 'gold' in enormous vaults all over the world is really 'gold' anymore?…
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Ain't nothing meaner than a 'Junkyard Dad'
Larry Elder discovers it's never too late for reconciliation
By Michael Thompson
Move out of the way "Tiger Moms"; it's time we appreciate, in the words of New York Times best-selling author and radio personality Larry Elder, "Junkyard Dads."
Appearing Monday on "Fox and Friends" to promote his new book "Dear Father, Dear Son," Elder told host Gretchen Carlson that he wrote it as an apology to his father.
"When I was 15 years old, my father and I had a fight, and we didn't end up talking for another 10 years," Elder said.
Elder's father served as a Marine in World War II but found that fighting for freedom abroad didn't translate to freedom at home. A son of the South, Elder's attempts to find employment in a region where Jim Crow still reigned forced him to relocate to Los Angeles.
Instead of racial discrimination, he was faced with a more subtle discrimination: Applying for a job as a cook, he was told he had no references.
Undeterred, Elder's father would eventually land a job as a janitor and then work two jobs to make ends meet.
"Forget about a Tiger Mom, I had a Junkyard Dad," said Elder, referring to the fact that his dad slept about four hours a night for 10 to 12 years because of the arduous schedule he maintained to support his family.
"As a little kid, you don't realize what's on. I didn't realize he was working two jobs, going to night school to get this GED. Didn't realize he was cooking for a family on the weekend, too," Elder said.
"It helped put into perspective some of whippings I took and his gruff nature," Elder said.
When asked by Carlson what message people should take from reading this book, Elder said, "Be appreciative that you have a father in your life; it's never too late to fix your relationships with your family if you've drifted apart. Don't assume bad things without talking to your family."
"Stunning … a wonderful read … a page-turner … a handbook for life."
The words of advance praise from another celebrated author convey just how powerfully mesmerizing readers find "Dear Father, Dear Son."
Released by WND Books this week, it's a personal memoir of Elder's troubled – one might even say tortured – relationship with his father and the astonishing outcome that develops when Elder, at long last, confronts him.
"A man's relationship with his father – every boy, every man lucky enough to have a father in his life has to figure that out," Elder explained. "My own father? I thought I knew him – even though he seldom talked about himself. And what I knew I hated – really, really hated. Cold, ill-tempered, thin-skinned, my father always seemed on the brink of erupting. Scared to death of him, I kept telling myself to find the courage to 'stand up to him.' When I was fifteen, I did."
After that, said Elder, "We did not speak to each other for 10 years."
"And then we did – for eight hours."
The result can't be described. It has to be experienced.
As reflected in the book's subtitle – "Two Lives … Eight Hours" – one extraordinary, all-day conversation between Elder and his long-estranged father utterly transformed their relationship. It is no exaggeration to say the book will likewise transform readers.
Indeed, calling it "stunning," Burt Boyar, co-author of the bestselling autobiography on Sammy Davis, Jr., says of "Dear Father, Dear Son": "Above all it is a wonderful read. I am tempted to call it a page-turner but in my case I hated to turn every page because that meant I was getting closer to the end, and I did not want it to end.
Boyar said the book "is filled with emotion."
"It is, of course, a handbook for life," he continued. "I guess it is that above all things. Any kid who reads it and follows the advice of how to live his life just has to come out well."
"Dear Father, Dear Son" is the story of one man discovering a son he never really knew. And of the son finding a man, a friend, a father who had really been there all along.
Elder, a "firebrand libertarian" according to "Daily Variety," has been the subject of profiles by both CBS' "60 Minutes" and ABC's "20/20." His previous best-selling books – "The 10 Things You Can't Say in America," "Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies and the Special Interests That Divide America" and "What's Race Got to Do with It? Why it's Time to Stop the Stupidest Argument in America" – all have met with critical acclaim.
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Elder also was scheduled appeared on CNBC's The Kudlow Report and is set to appear on the Hannity Show Thursday and on Huckabee on Nov. 24 or 25.