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Genghis Khan, Alexander etc. are rulers who had kingdoms which were larger than most of the countries now. How would they have ruled their countries efficiently when it would take weeks for information from one place to reach another. For example, if unrest broke out in a far corner of their kingdom, wouldn't it take longer for them to hear of it and longer still to quench it?
The answer to this question depends somewhat on the kingdom, geography, and era. The ancient Achamaemenid Empire of Persia (Iran) was arguably the first true empire in history, and spanned a sizeable amount of territory. It made use of regularly stationed outputs with stables always containing well-fed and well-rested horses, for messengers to quickly get around the empire. Combined with a primitive road system (which the Romans used to excellent military and economic advantage in their later empire), this ensured good communication and administration of the kingdom. Alexander the Great, having conquered Persia in the 4th century B.C., inherited this network of roads and indeed learned from the Persian method of government. In addition, the sub-division of an empire into smaller regions, run by local rulers or trusted generals, led to early top-down bureaucratic forms of rule that worked quite well. For Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire, these rulers were "satraps"; for Rome they were provincial governors.
In summary: the combination of regular stationed outposts (garrisons for the army, and trading/tax collection stations), and the pyramid-like sub-division of territories for administration by petty rulers and officials led to a, while often fragile, fairly efficient and manageable form of impirial administration that worked for the Persians, Macedonians, Romans, and later the Mongols.
Usually the ruler would divide the kingdom up into smaller territorries and appoint someone to be the leader for that territory. This has historically been a pretty common practice. From the Zhou Dynasty in China to the Roman Empire we can see examples of this. In addition, when you look at medieval kingdoms in England, France, and Germany, the monarchs appointed Earls and Dukes and such to maintain control over portions of their kingdom and to ensure loyalty and support.


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Thursday's letters: Mass hysteria
Published: Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 6:06 p.m.
To the editor: The Newtown disaster has allowed anti-gun coalitions to mount the most serious threat ever to the Second Amendment. The rallying cry is around assault weapons, really a misnomer semi-automatic military look-alikes are not assault weapons. I believe the ultimate goal is confiscation of all guns to render the populace helpless to an out-of-control federal government.
Facts from FBI data and a Department of Justice survey:
u Convicted felons admit not committing crimes for fear victims may be armed.
u Almost all mass shootings in the past 50 years have occurred in gun-free-zones.
u States/locales with favorable gun laws have lower gun-related crime rates than those with restrictive laws.
u There are nearly twice as many non-firearm homicides as firearm homicides.
u Assault weapons are involved in so few shootings, the FBI doesnt record them statistically.
The complicit news media/writers feast on mass hysteria.
I recommend the readers view the video of Suzanna Gratia Hupps testimony before Congress regarding the Lubys cafeteria massacre in 1991 in which she lost her parents: http://youtu.be/M1u0Byq5Qis.
Bob Hoover
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To the editor: The numbers on the proposed Flat Rock Highland Lake Park are in. Approximately $1 million for land, $1.6 million for improvements and a $166,000 annual bill for operations and maintenance (low, if police are required). Project promoters wisely decided to explore investment and expense before deciding whether or not to recommend proceeding. Hopefully those numbers stay their hand.
Undertaking the project would consume more than half of the treasury reserves that preceding VFR mayors and councils painstakingly assembled over the villages 17-year existence. Furthermore, annual maintenance and operating expenses would cripple our ability to ever restore those reserves. The funds exist to deal with contingencies and to insure against ever having to levy local tax to fund day-to-day operations.
Uncharacteristically among politicians, VFR administrations set challenging standards for approving spending, even forgoing pay for their services. Adding a park might be nice to have, but it in no way passes the test of filling a real need to justify its devastating cost. Proposed park amenities are already available locally at no additional cost.
Newspaper coverage declaring that promotional activity of a few reflects majority approval among 3,000-plus citizens misleads. All our people need to be heard now.
R.J. Demartini
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To the editor: Retailers complain about in-store sales losing out to online shopping. My recent experiences may help explain why.
I visited a local department store to look for a gift in the mens department. After looking around a while, I knew I needed help. I finally found two saleswomen chatting at the customer service/sales desk. One reluctantly tore herself away from her conversation and halfheartedly gave me the information I needed. No sale.
So I went to the rival department store. Again no salesperson in sight. But this time I was able to find what I wanted by myself. So I proceeded to the customer service/sales desk. Again, no salesperson, just another customer holding her selections and waiting.
After waiting for maybe half a minute, I shouted loudly, Hello. After maybe another few seconds with no results, I shouted Hello, again loudly. So thats how to do it! my fellow-in-waiting said. This time, two salespeople arrived, and we were taken care of.
Customer service?
Virginia P. Newsom
Your answer
To the editor: Reporters on national television ask the question of if there will be peace. Hmmm. The answer is quite obvious since people in the Middle East have been fighting before Noah and the Great Flood!
History has told that this all started with Ishmael (Abrahams son) over greed and jealous envy, and his descendants have been fighting over riches and land ever since!
The Holy Bible says in Revelation that after the rapture (the second coming of Christ) there will be perfect peace on Earth! But wait folks, this will only last 1,000 years, and then Jesus will loose Satan once again to deceive the nations again! So, people, if yall are waiting for everything to be all honey and pie, it aint a happening on this side of glory amen!
The 6 oclock news doesnt give the answers either, only more chaos to the worlds problems! Americans if you want your peace, then turn to the Bible and God! Thats where your answer has been all along! It always was and always will be there only amen!
Larry D. Ledbetter
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STEUBENVILLE - Ed Looman is stepping down as executive director of Progress Alliance after four years to take a job with the Appalachian Partnership for Economic Growth as project manager for Jefferson and seven other counties in Eastern Ohio .
Looman tendered his resignation to the Community Improvement Corp. at Tuesday's meeting at Voto Sales, saying it wasn't an easy decision.
"I feel a deep, deep sense of gratitude to the folks who have served on the CIC board, along with the elected and appointed officials throughout the county who gave me an opportunity to serve this county and the people of this county," he said, adding he appreciates the cooperation and assistance he received from local government over the years.
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CHANGES COMING —Progress Alliance Executive Director Ed Looman, center, tendered his resignation Tuesday to take a position with the Appalachian Partnership for Economic Growth. Robert Chapman, president of the Community Improvement Corp., listens while Looman addresses the board, and Kim Cline-Deluca takes notes during the meeting, which was hosted by Voto Sales. -- Linda Harris
His resignation takes effect in 30 days, though he will be available as needed to assist the transition at Progress Alliance.
"I think what I enjoy most about economic development work is project management, learning the needs of the prospect whether it be a new business or helping a business expand, then working to put the pieces of the puzzle together - seeing what the need is, what the ask is, then putting the pieces together to provide financial assistance," Looman said. "This position will allow me to focus on project work in Jefferson and seven other counties in this region. I'll still be able to help with economic development efforts in Jefferson County, just in a different format."
In his new position, Looman will report to John Molinaro, president and chief executive officer of APEG, which serves 25 counties in Southeastern Ohio.
"Ed is one of the more successful and respected economic development professionals serving the region," Molinaro said in announcing his hiring. "He has done a great job of organizing economic development efforts in Jefferson County, and has had quite a bit of experience working with companies in the shale industry and its supply chain. He has also done a great job developing an inventory of development sites in the county - a critical task for APEG to replicate across the region in the months ahead."
Looman said his tenure with the CIC "gives me an understanding of what other organizations in the counties I'll be serving are facing, and I can help them navigate the statewide channels for financial assistance."
"The cooperation, assistance and financial support for Progress Alliance has been extraordinary, but this is an opportunity that will put me in an area of concentration that I will enjoy from a professional basis," he said. "The timing is probably not the greatest, from the standpoint of what's transpiring here, but I think the county is headed in the right direction."
In one of his final acts as executive director, Looman presented the CIC board with a rundown on 18 projects Progress Alliance had assisted during the past year, which included:
Audubon Engineering, Hess, Power Torque Services, Shale Transportation Services, Cambridge Home Health Services and La Grande Taqueria, all operating out of leased spaces in Steubenville
Express Energy, leasing space in Toronto.
U.S. Safety Gear, Heavy Duty Industrial Service and Powers Martial Arts Studio, leasing spaces in Wintersville; Blind Horse Knives, which expanded its operations and work force after relocating to leased space in Wintersville.
Environmental Management Specialists and H&H Screening and Graphics, which purchased buildings in Steubenville;
Microtel Inn & Suites, now under construction in Steubenville.
Premier Pump, preparing to begin construction of a new service center in the Jefferson County Industrial Park.
Northeast Ohio minerals company, constructing a new operations center in southern Jefferson County.
Esmark's purchase of the former RG Steel plant in Yorkville which, if all goes as planned, will put 160 people back to work in early 2013.
The expansion of an as-yet unidentified local company which eventually will lead to creation of new employment opportunities.
Looman credited the efforts of the Progress Alliance staff, which includes Donna Hrezo and Kim Cline-Deluca, with "being totally dedicated to making good things happen in Jefferson County."
"I don't think a lot of folks realize how fortunate this county is to have extraordinary support for economic development," he said. "I'm talking about the number of businesses we have that financially support economic development, and it still makes us the envy of a lot of counties in this region, and public support has been great - we've had the support of the county, the cities of Steubenville, Wintersville and Toronto and Cross Creek Township.
"That private support has enabled the organization to do so many things we wouldn't been able to do (otherwise). At this point, about 52 percent to 53 percent of our funding is from private sources. It runs the gamut of the business community from the largest employer in the county all the way down to businesses with two or three employees that make the sacrifice for economic development."
Looman said he sincerely believes Jefferson County is moving in the right direction.
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6 Mind-Blowing Early Music Careers of Famous Musicians
It's great to think of our favorite entertainers as people born with unique visions, destined from childhood to share them with the world. Dr. Dre was always a gangsta, damn it, and you can't bear to think of him as, say, a glam rapper in sequins who reinvented himself because it was profitable.
Yet, more often than not, that's the way it goes. Even if you love their music, often the musicians are doing what they're doing only because they realized at some point in the past that making any money was going to require them to radically shift gears. For instance ...
#6. Lady Gaga Was a Normal-Looking Brunette Named Stefani Germanotta
The Artist You Know:
If you're so far removed from society that basic pop culture knowledge like "Who is Lady Gaga?" lies outside your information wheelhouse, then probably the best we can do for you is "She's that singer with the crazy costumes who once wore a dress made of meat."
"I would cry, but my eyes are already lubricated with bacon juice."
Because while her music might be popular (to the tune of 23 million albums sold in four years), her "bag lady from space" sense of style attracts the most attention. Someone with that much flair and personality was born to be on stage. She even said so in that song she stole from Madonna. She is pure packaging, all ridiculous sets and crazy hats and bullshit. Hell, the record label probably just found some out-of-work model somewhere and glued a bunch of shit to her, right?
Glue fumes would explain a lot.
But if you think Lady Gaga looks crazy now, wait until you see what kind of getup she paraded around in before she was famous.
The Artist You Don't Know:
Holy shit, that's Lady Gaga on that album cover! And she looks ... completely normal? Well, technically speaking, it's Stefani Germanotta, frontwoman for the aptly named Stefani Germanotta Band. Before she was showing up on red carpets in a gigantic egg, Lady Gaga was just a girl in a bar band. Yep, you read that correct. Lady Gaga was in a band, with real instruments and everything.
We understand that that flies in the face of what listeners think of as the Lady Gaga creative process, which most believe works something like this:
Step 1 -- Check email for new backing tracks from producers in Sweden
Step 2 -- Grab lyrics from songwriting software (keyword optimized to attract gay males and insecure tweens) to plug into Auto-tune machine
Step 3 -- Assemble the first 10 items within arm's reach into an outfit for the day
Step 4 -- Count money
Step 5 -- Claim you were born this way while your hairdresser puts in a 16-hour day.
Even though Red and Blue, the EP that the video posted earlier appeared on, was recorded just a few short years ago, any trace of the Stefani Germanotta who just sang over a piano was mostly gone by the time Lady Gaga's first album was released.
Depending on who you ask, the radical shift in style was the result of either a legitimate expression of creativity from a talented young artist (according to her camp), a marketing meeting (according to the New York Post) or an illicit tryst between Madonna and Ziggy Stardust 26 years ago that's finally paying dividends (according to us, just now).
Iggy Pop watched.
#5. Beastie Boys Were a Hardcore Punk Band
The Band You Know:
The Beastie Boys are the biggest selling rap group since SoundScan started tracking album sales. That was in 1991, when Will Smith was just a rapper with a television show and the Beasties' legendary album Licensed to Ill was over five years old. That means most of that album's sales aren't even factored into the equation. That's quite an accomplishment.
Seeing as how the song "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)" seemed to put the Beastie Boys on the map overnight, and that they appeared to be like 15 years old, most people assume that Licensed to Ill is the band's first album.
But it's not. The Beastie Boys' first release came out long before they signed to Def Jam records and, in fact, long before they started rapping.
The Band You Don't Know:
The Beastie Boys were one of the first hardcore punk bands. Ever. They started out as a quartet in 1979, a full seven years before they captured the hearts and minds of suburban kids who discovered a form of music they knew their parents would absolutely hate. They actually formed before seminal hardcore acts like Minor Threat, Bad Religion, Husker Du and too many others to list. They even put out an EP of hardcore songs in 1982 called Polly Wog Stew.
So what prompted this completely unprecedented at the time shift in musical direction? It was a prank phone call.
The band recorded a four-track EP called Cooky Puss. The title track was built around a prank phone call Adam Horovitz made to a local ice cream shop. Somehow, this not only caught the attention of Def Jam Records co-founder Rick Rubin, but it also led him to believe that the Beastie Boys should totally start rapping.
Rubin is also God's half brother.
And that's the story of how the world started down a slippery slope that eventually ended at Limp Bizkit.
#4. Sugar Ray Used to Be a Metal Band
The Band You Know:
These days, Mark McGrath is probably more well-known for his work as a host on the entertainment tabloid show Extra than for his work as the frontman of '90s pop-rock band Sugar Ray. But during their heyday (which lasted approximately 18 months), Sugar Ray was huge. Their brief flirtation with mattering earned them two multi-platinum albums, a gold album and three Top 10 hits.
And it didn't go to their heads at all, sadly.
Their ridiculously catchy brand of pop-rock endeared Sugar Ray to legions of fans who never once questioned why such a feel-good band would have a member named "DJ Homicide" in their ranks.
The Band You Don't Know:
Sugar Ray used to fucking rock. Mind you, we don't mean "rock" in a good way, necessarily:
That video even features a clip of a mosh pit. At a Sugar Ray show. That's news that's as shocking as it is disappointing, given our tendency to use "when a mosh pit breaks out at a Sugar Ray show" as a slightly more modern twist on the classic "when pigs fly" phrase.
Even more interesting is how Sugar Ray's radical shift in style came about. The band was indulging in a little inter-band bickering during the recording of their 1997 album Floored when Mark McGrath stormed out of the studio, leaving the band with a whole bunch of nothing to do. Out of sheer boredom, they started riffing over a drum loop and, a few minutes later, had tossed together "Fly," the song that would eventually make them famous.
Of course, seeing as how they were still holding onto their dreams of being metal, "Fly" stuck out like a sore thumb as the only pop-rock tune on an album full of aggressive rock songs, leaving fans who purchased the album (people still did that back then) wondering why that dreamy guy from that band with the pool in their video was screaming at them.
Sugar Ray would address this concern by cashing in and doing absolutely nothing hardcore for the remainder of their time as a band.
Five seconds later Christina was wearing a nun's habit.


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Q: How would I go about getting a conflict resolution or mediation group going at our local schools? As far as I know, we don't have any programs to deal with bullies and negative behaviors at school.
A: I applaud your willingness to get involved. I have a personal bias as a peer mediator trainer. I believe a good peer-mediation program is the most valuable tool a school has in combating violence and bullying in any school. Contact your local school counselor and parent groups. Talk to them about your ideas. There are many national groups and publications about peer mediation and dealing with bullying at school.
Websites that I would recommend are www.creducation.org and www.hamfish.org. You can also type in peer mediation and get many more, perhaps even a program in your state.
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How is the commit percent decided for Area 51? I know it is based on rep, but how exactly does it work?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
My answer here:
With that caveat, the formula we use right now works like this: We give each user a "score" based on how likely we think they are to contribute to the site. It's a bit kludgey right now because we don't have a whole lot of data. The one piece of data we have that tells us a lot and is hard to game is a user's reputation on the existing sites.
Here's the formula we have right now. It's almost certainly wrong and we'll be tweaking it as we go:
where SUM is over each site a user has an account on.
To get a feel for it:
The way to read this is that we consider a user with 10000 reputation to be almost twice as likely to contribute as a user with no reputation.
We've tweaked the formula a few times since this was originally posted, based on the data from the first site betas. I've corrected the formula above to be the very latest. In general, we've tweaked the value of high-rep users downwards since they don't seem to be that much more likely to contribute, and given brand new users a bit of a boost as well.
The final commitment percentage of a proposal is equal to the MINIMUM of these three numbers:
Put another way, every proposal that launches must satisfy these three criteria:
Here's a
We've added a decay factor to commitment votes on Area 51. This applies only to the Commitment Score portion. Basically, the older a vote is, the more it decays. This is very gradual: something like 10% over 6 months. If a user is very committed, they can "renew" their vote by visiting the proposal while logged in.
It's not (just) the total reps.
Probably the percentage is a mixture of people count (41 for Gaming, 26 for Apocalyptic Defense) and total rep.
Edit: Based on @David's answer, I've calculated the total user score for:
so the score of 100% is
Hmm the ranges do not intersect. But it seems 2,000 is the answer.
(The scores per site of each user are extracted with Firebug with
on each page. The lists are summed, divided by 10, and the total number of committers are added to it.)
The WordPress Answers proposal is one exception. A lot of people came over from the wp-hackers list on WordPress.org when I announced it, and as such, only have 51 rep. The comments show great activity potential, but the rep shows almost none. This is, of course, the ultimate goal, to bring in outsiders.
Same here for the GIS website. This kinda dissapoints me, but I'm sure the GIS website will be created at some point. Or not?
Almost all users who followed it, already commited, so I'm not sure if this will grow higher.
The following Python 3.x script can be used to compute the commitment percent based on the new formula. The scores of the 3 criterion will be emitted in the end, showing what kind of users is needed to improve the percentage.
From a few proposals I have tested on, it turns out the strictest criteria is "100 committers with at least 200 rep on a single site".


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8 Oct 2010 2:04 PM #1
Announcing Sencha Touch App Contest
Developing great mobile apps with Sencha Touch? Want your app reviewed by a panel of industry experts? It could be worth up to a cool $15,000 in cash and prizes.
Announcing the first Sencha Touch App Contest. This is a great opportunity for you to showcase your mobile app development talent, and possibly win some amazing cash and prizes.
There are two stages to the Sencha Touch App Contest. For the first stage, you will prototype and submit your original, innovative Sencha Touch app by Wednesday, October 27th. Our judges will review the prototype submissions and select the Top 10 finalists to move to stage two. Each Top 10 entry is guaranteed $2,000.
For the second stage, the Top 10 finalists will refine their application for final submission on Wednesday, November 10th. The top three winners will be presented at Sencha Conference, November 17th. In addition to winning great cash and prizes, the three winners will also have an opportunity to demonstrate their new Sencha Touch application to our conference attendees.
1st Prize - Mac Pro, 27" LED Cinema Display, Android tablet, iPod touch, SenchaCon pass, $10,000 cash
2nd Prize - 15" MacBook Pro, Android tablet, iPod touch, SenchaCon pass, $7,500 cash
3rd Prize - Android tablet, iPod touch, SenchaCon pass, $3,500 cash
Get together with up to four other developers to build your best Sencha Touch app. You'll be competing for some crazy loot so head over to http://www.sencha.com/contest for the full details.
We posted the contest yesterday and we're already seeing a huge response and some great ideas. We also recently posted these helpful Sencha Touch tutorials to the Learning Center:
- Create a Twitter App with Geolocation
- Layouts Walkthrough
If you want to connect with other Sencha Touch developers, try our handy, new Twitter list!
Good luck and happy coding!
8 Oct 2010 4:13 PM #2
Good luck guys!!https://moduscreate.com/wp-content/t...es/favicon.png
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8 Oct 2010 7:07 PM #3
I don't have to register my app until the morning of Oct 27th, right?
Won't put it online until the end anyway.
Jay, maybe we actually see us at the conf after all. Will try my best to get into the top 3. :-)
9 Oct 2010 8:03 AM #4
Cool contest! We'd like to try as well
Question here - should this run correctly on ANY sencha touch device or ONE device will be OK? Say we target our app for HTC Desire or Apple iPad?
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10 Oct 2010 10:05 PM #6
You don't have to have it run on every device (although making it run on every device is a plus when it comes to judging)
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7 Bizarre Ways You Didn't Know 9/11 Changed the World
September 11, 2001 changed the world. Laws changed, regimes changed, the way we look at the world changed and the release date of the Tim Allen masterpiece Big Trouble changed because it featured a bomb on an airplane. But under all of that, the world was affected in a number of bizarre, unexpected ways that largely went unreported, for obvious reasons. But thanks to the action of a handful of terrorists ...
#7. The World Got Hotter
In the wake of 9/11, something happened that most people never thought they'd see until the utter collapse of human civilization: completely empty skies.
"Welp, it's the end. Apocalorgy, anyone?
After the attacks, the U.S. government temporarily grounded every plane in the nation (including crop dusters and those little planes that tow ad banners -- no, that is not a joke). Inbound flights that were already in the air were rerouted to other countries, and some airports stayed closed until as late as October, because as we all know, terrorists have only ever killed people in airplanes.
The problem with that is, unbeknownst to most, contrails (those white vapor trails that form out of airplane exhaust) act as mirrors, reflecting heat away from the Earth's surface. Those thousands and thousands of vapor trails have actually had a cooling effect that has counteracted global warming to some extent for years -- each airborne plane is sort of like Captain Planet zipping around with a UV shield tied to his boots.
But, unlike Captain Planet, only assholes want to hurt planes.
With so many planes grounded all at once, the atmosphere suddenly found itself without the mirror it had grown accustomed to over the past half century, and the temperature in the United States increased by 2 degrees in just three days. That may not sound like much, but consider this: Global warming typically only causes about a 0.5-degree increase every year. Grounding all of the planes caused a 2-degree increase, 400 percent of the average annual rate, in three goddamned days.
Via Uww.edu
Knowing this, you'd think those shiftless penguins would have done more to help fight al-Qaida.
And sure, a couple of degrees difference isn't going to kill anyone. But this next one did ...
#6. Thousands of People Died ... in Car Accidents
As a result of the fear of air travel that arose post-9/11 (and of the fact that all planes were either heavily restricted or flat-out grounded for a week after the attacks), many people decided to just drive the trips they had planned on flying. After all, it seemed highly unlikely that al-Qaida would hijack anyone's Ford Festiva and try to crash it into Trump Tower (some confused valet would've probably run out and tried to park it). By that line of reasoning, what could be safer?
"Box-cutter this, you needle-dicked sheepfuckers."
Flying, actually. As you may know, car accidents are staggeringly more common than plane crashes (terrorists notwithstanding) due to the fact that pretty much everyone drives. The average person spends about two hours every day behind the wheel of a car, and statistically speaking, you are much more likely to crash after an hour of driving than you are after an hour of flying. By responding in the reactionary knee-jerk way media-driven cultures generally do, Americans dramatically increased the number of fatal car accidents in the year following 9/11.
Because no one will ever be as good at killing Americans as Americans.
How much? How about an estimated 1,595 extra deaths, almost half the number of people who died in the 9/11 attacks themselves, due to all of the extra driving people did in a year when air travel dropped 20 percent. All because Americans thought that driving everywhere was the only way to avoid being killed in a blazing explosion. Note to Alanis Morissette: This is what irony actually is.
"And isn't it ironic? It's like dying in a car crash to avoid terrorists on your, um, wedding day. Fuck."
#5. Pests Invaded America
Before 9/11, America had an extensive network of agricultural scientists dedicated to ensuring that crop-ravaging insects didn't make their way into the country. By way of in-depth inspections of imported produce, somewhere in the neighborhood of 80,000 bugs a year were intercepted at the nation's borders, and presumably deported back to their homelands to compose entries about American fascism for their Tumblr accounts.
"I was pupated here, goddammit! Jus soli, Jus soli!"
However, after the attacks on September 11, Homeland Security devoted nearly 100 percent of these watchdog scientists to detecting the chemical and physical traces of bombs that might be getting smuggled into the country. We admit, the reasoning was solid -- bombs and terrorism hadn't existed before, and after the invention of both on 9/11, the United States simply couldn't afford to waste resources on protecting the crops necessary to sustain its own population. Besides, in the post-9/11 world, all food would be grown from rehydrated science capsules, like the pizza in Back to the Future Part II.
Future-Cosco would, presumably, be slightly larger than a bread box.
As a result, billions of dollars' worth of produce, private orchards and prized forest land were destroyed by insane foreign contaminants that were brought into the country through uninspected imports. And it wasn't just insects -- fungal infections, which are a very serious problem for citrus orchards, and plant-specific diseases also made their way in, crotch-punching crops across several border states. New pests and infections increased by almost 30 percent in Florida alone, whereas other states, such as California, suffered extensive damage to the local wildlife population after pesticides had to be dumped by the gross to combat invading insects.
"Sorry, bunnies! This was Osama's fauuuuuult!"
This ended up costing taxpayers around an extra $120 billion every year in the form of rising food costs and government pest eradication and control programs. However, since none of the bugs were radioactive or exploding, nobody really gave a shit.
#4. Whales Were Happier (for Two Days)
Yes, whales got happier after the 9/11 attacks. How the hell can we possibly know that? And why did we bother to find out? Well, that takes a bit of explaining.
Clearly, whales hate our freedom.
By sheer coincidence, two unrelated studies were being conducted regarding the North Atlantic right whale in Canada's Bay of Fundy on the morning of September 11. One particular researcher was testing whale feces in an effort to understand their reproductive process and overall health (because poop is the exact center of both of those things) when she received word of the terrorist attacks in America. Deciding that halting her poop-sifting knowledge quest would be exactly what the terrorists would want, she bravely persevered and plowed ahead with her work.
The other set of researchers were focusing more on underwater sound recordings of whale mothers and their calves to shed more light on their social behavior. Again, both of these studies were being conducted immediately before, during and after the attacks on September 11. When the two studies were later compared side-by-side, they painted a complex, completely unexpected and vaguely sinister picture of whales.
He's flipping us the bird. The whale bird.
Both studies found that the whales' overall stress levels had fallen dramatically on 9/11 and on the days immediately following. The whales, it seems, were actually happier in the wake of the attacks. While Americans were inflating their jeans with brown loads of panic, these whales were almost serene.
You see, directly after 9/11, governments worldwide shut down not just the majority of air traffic, but also most shipping activity. That means for a brief period of time, there were no massive freighters churning through the water where these whales lived.
Which means the whales join Glenn Beck on team "wishes it were still the day after 9/11."
The researchers discovered that, without the constant thrum of shipping freighters directly on top of them, stress hormones in the whales had plummeted dramatically. This "acoustic pollution" does serious harm to ocean creatures that rely on sound to navigate and communicate -- imagine trying to have a conversation with your family while someone is riding a Harley around your living room. For those few glorious days, the whales had the ocean all to themselves, and their quality of life boomed.
Of course, normal shipping traffic resumed very quickly, and the whales went back to being cranky and irritable, waiting for the day when the sea would be returned to them. Even now, they wait.


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DePOY, Russell L. age 96, of Weirton, WV passed away peacefully on Nov. 27, 2012, at Valley Hospice Care Center, North, Steubenville, Ohio.
He was born Oct. 15, 1916, in Braxton County, WV. He was the son of the late Charles L. and Georgie (Smith) DePoy.
In addition to his parents, Russell was preceded in death by his brother, Harry DePoy, his sisters, Nellie DeVaughn and Pearl Bickel.
Surviving are his wife Ruby (Perrine) DePoy, son Donald (Jean) DePoy of Clayton, NC and daughter Patricia Seders of Weirton, WV; four grandchildren Charles (Diane) DePoy of Sacramento, CA, Darrin (Annette) Depoy of Clayton, NC, Rev. Brian (Susan) Seders of Clarksburg, WV and Jason (Kimberly) Seders of Frederick, MD. Two step-grandchildren, Timothy (Brandi) Richmond of Clarksburg, WV and Betsy (Jonathan) Scovell of Chambersburg, PA; seven great-grandchildren, Jillian, Melissa and Joshua DePoy; Nicholas, Christopher, Faith and Rebecca Seders; one step-great-grandchild, Brooklyn Richmond.
Russell attended the Free Methodist Church of Weirton. He was retired from National Steel Corp., where he worked in the Blast Furnace Department. He was also a member of the WSX 25-Year Club.
Russell was a devoted husband & father. He will be lovingly remembered & sadly missed by his family.
Private memorial service for the family will be conducted by Rev. Brian Seders at Sugar Creek Cemetery in Braxton County, WV.
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Aleksandr Minz? can be seen just behind Baryshnikov
Natalia Makarova & Mikhail Baryshnikov1976 newsphoto of Makarova's wedding
Posted 09 January 2012 - 12:39 PM
Aleksandr Minz? can be seen just behind Baryshnikov
Posted 09 January 2012 - 03:07 PM
I don't know whether this photo was much handled, but it looks to me like whoever developed the film and printed it did a sloppy job with the chemicals. Too bad.
Posted 09 January 2012 - 07:17 PM
something tells me if anyone here would know more, it would be Mel.
Posted 09 January 2012 - 08:20 PM
Posted 10 January 2012 - 09:57 AM
What are the flowers the groom seems to be holding?
Posted 10 January 2012 - 11:14 AM
What are the flowers the groom seems to be holding?
Possibly stefana woven with lemon flowers.
Posted 10 January 2012 - 11:59 AM
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Posted 06 July 2012 - 04:15 PM
I've never seen a photo of Makarova -- dancing or not -- in which she looks so fragile, vulnerable
I agree, Bart--I hardly recognize her, although she looks beautiful.
Posted 06 July 2012 - 07:45 PM
Posted 07 July 2012 - 03:50 AM
i can think of no reliable source suggesting a marriage between Makarova and Baryshnikov.
Posted 07 July 2012 - 03:28 PM
Posted 07 July 2012 - 03:38 PM
When he was trying to sell that estate on the Hudson in recent years, Lisa Rinehart did an on-line video tour of the place and publications like the Wall Street Journal referred to her as his wife from "about four years ago". I assumed their agent thought it would be a little much for him to do the tour, so she did it.
M.B. has never been married, has he?
But he certainly gave plenty of quotes over the years to interviewers that he did not believe in marriage, so that was a surprise. With three kids and well into his 60s, perhaps his attorney suggested that he needed to think ahead about such things.
I don't think I could track down a source, but I thought Makarova was briefly married in Russia to someone else and she broke it off with Baryshnikov partly because of that and because she was eight years older. Note in that interview about her San Francisco marriage that she considered it her first marriage.
Posted 08 July 2012 - 09:27 AM
On reflection I think the source may have got confused with the film director Bondarchuk who married Inna
Posted 04 October 2012 - 05:32 AM
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Gimme yo cheezitz gurl yo know you full with that block
Dass her bakup.
I also just noticed the drained 2-liter of soda sticking out from behind the chair as well.
who the fuck is that in your avatar.. O_O
Looks like a crack baby's baby.
Well, she certainly looks surprised
Wow I didn't think I could dislike him any more then I did, I was really wrong
Justin Bieber is anime. He is a human cartoon, a homunculus devised by the nefarious forces of Yen Sid.
I would've just said he's a douche but ok.
I just wanted an excuse to post a pic of the sorceror from The Sorceror's Apprentice. You know, that cartoon with Mickey and the broomsticks. His name is Disney spelled backwards. Lol subliminals
I think we should create a Schrödinger's tag for the forums. It would function like a spoiler tag, only you wouldn't know if anything existed behind the tag until after you had clicked it.
holy fucking shit that's awesome
Holy shit, he has pouches on his boots.


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The Washington County, Tennessee Sheriff's Office held a news conference on Tuesday afternoon to release more details about a deadly crash.
The accident happened on Knob Creek Boat Dock Road when deputies say a car left the roadway, hit a tree, and burst into flames.
Investigators said Bounleua Sonekeo, 38, and Misty Dawn Sonekeo, 36, died Monday morning. "They were in the middle of a separation," said Sheriff Ed Graybeal.
Investigators believe Misty Sonekeo was stabbed some time before the accident. "We found large blood splatters and a lot of blood on the bed," said Sheriff Graybeal. "You can see where he had taken her downstairs to the car and put her in. They left the residence at that time."
Deputies said an autopsy will determine if she died from being stabbed or as a result of the crash.
Teresa Webb lives across from where the crash occurred. She said when she realized there was a car accident, she called 911 and waited for crews to arrive. "We couldn't have gotten close to the car because it was already on fire. The trees and the woods were already on fire," Webb said.
"They went over the rocks. The car hit the tree, flipped upside down where it is laying now and caught fire," Sheriff Graybeal explained.
Sheriff Graybeal says investigators aren't sure how fast the car was going, but there were no skid marks. "It doesn't appear that they hit any brakes. They just lost control and maybe tried to overcorrect, ran off the roadway. You can see how high they went up the tree once they went off the road and flipped over," he explained.


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i have one activity in which i enter some values and save it in the data base by calling webservise on save button.
basically i have two buttons in my app one for save and one for edit previous record . when clicking edit i want to open same activity that i use for save but by clicking edit i want show the previously entered value in activity after modifing that by user then back to data base, but i want to use same activity for edit as well
How can i achive this the same activity in edit mode as well ?
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I've a top floor apartment in India which gets almost like an oven during the summers which is like for 9 months out of 12. I've decided to apply under the deck XPS 50mm (nailed to the ceiling). I dont want to do a gypsum false ceiling after that, since I like to keep the height and cost low. The supplier (Supreme Petrochem) suggests to apply putty + acrylic paint over the XPS board, but I'm skeptical and dont know if that will crack. I'm thinking of just sticking wall paper over it. Any experience of such application & suggestions will be appreciated.
Dow, a manufacturer of XPS products, on their India web site, does not recommend using XPS under a roof deck. This is due to the possibility of condensation occurring between the insulation and the structure.
As far as painting goes, US codes require a 15 minute thermal barrier over an interior foam, in the event of fire. This could be satisfied by gypsum wallboard, obviating the need to paint. For noninsulation interior uses, Dow permits latex paint.
Instead, they recommend using an "inverted roof" where the panels are placed OVER the waterproofing and covered with a ballast material that will weigh the panel down and protect it from sunlight.
You can definitely apply Paint on XPS Boards,they will not crack. They have a life span of 50-60 years. And it helps to decrease the temperature by 4-5 degrees, even more.
Yes of course XPS board can be used under a deck for insulating the room. When on the ceiling 50mm XPS is used, its joints are set due to shiplap design. After fastening them to the ceiling, their joints are covered with the tape and then fibre mesh is put over it, then the putty is applied over it, and finally the paint is applied over it. The joints never crack due to this process applied on XPS.
For better insulation, the south or west wall of a room should also be insulated as they gain the maximum time of heat during the day. The walls can be insulated with 25mm XPS board. The joints should be grooved in a v-shape to fill in putty and then the same above procedure is applied.
what part of india do you live at (aka, do you get horrible long monsoon rains), and are there any sort of cracks, etc, on the roof that may cause water to seep in? i think these are more important questions than whether you can paint XPS.
i lived most of my life in bangalore (and several years of that on the top floor of a 13story highrise), and a little judicious application of ceiling fans and air conditioners goes a longer way than trying to insulate your roof from the underside.
i fail to see how 2" of any sort of insulation under your ceiling would help in heat control. now, if you're trying to dress your ceiling up, i understand; and there are several options. not for heat control, though.


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Where were you 11 years ago today?
I was in high school in study hall (at least, my school's equivalent) working on homework when we heard the announcement over the PA system. We spent most of the rest of the day watching the news reports on TV.
I remember walking home thinking it was all surreal. I grew up in Michigan, so it never struck as close to home as I'm sure it did for many others out there. In a couple years talking with my college roommate about it, he told me about how he looked out from his school and saw the smoke rising over NYC.
Where were you and what were you doing? What were you thinking?
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At work, in downtown Washington D.C.
Walked outside and could see the smoke from the pentagon.
NOT a happy time. Fortunately everyone I knew at the pentagon was OK.
I also remember a TON of 'inaccurate' reports including automatic gunfire repelling an assault on the State Department, a bomb squad defusing a bomb on the Mall, and a poison gas attack at the US Capitol. All of those disappeared down the memory hole, but I'm still curious about how they got reported.
At work, watching on a small TV. We were watching the aftermath of the first plane, as the second one came in and struck. IT still gives me chills thinking about it.
As with @capitalggeek, I remember getting a huge amount of speculation that later turned out to be wrong.
Thoughts out to everyone who was directly impacted by the events.
Sitting in the waiting room of an outpaient surgery center, waiting for my then gf. She was completely unhinged before her procedure, so there was no TV or radio before I got to the waiting area. I think that at least one aircraft had hit, maybe the second hit as I got there.
I remember that people became completely unhinged for the months following. Security required ID before entering, well, anywhere. What that was supposed to do: I have no idea. All 11 hijackers passed through security with (for the most part) valid U.S. driver's licenses.
I too was in study hall in high school when it happened, I remember the teachers in study hall turning on the radio and thinking "how rude"(since I was actually trying to get some work done) until I started listening to what they were saying on the radio. At first I thought it was some kind of joke, but the details were too real. The teacher of my next class's son worked in the Pentagon, so she was distraught and had to leave, so we just watched the news on TV. For the remainder of the day, all we did was talk about everything that happened. One teacher even remarked "you'll remember where you were and what you were doing on this day for the rest of your lives". True story.
I was waking up on the couch. I had been release from the hospital hours before in a bustling part of Missouri. The night before I had went down in a fire, my whole team did, due to a wacko trying to blow-up the maintenance bay of the neighboring police station (and their dispatch with it). He had loaded his car with real nasty stuff. The fire was so intense it melted half the building. My team and I had drawn the short straw and got that side of the build.
So yeah, groggily I had awakened. My sister had stayed with me when I was finally released and she was crying watching the tv. I saw the first tower go down and it all was a blur from there. The next day we started pulling extra firefighters in to go to NYC to help. In all we sent twelve men. I couldn't get cleared to go. As I was still suffering from heat stroke and exhaustion. It was ...something... to see firefighters just like me go down and not get back up.
Always running in while everyone is running out.
glances at the clock Exactly 11 years ago? In an ENTIRELY different world than this one.
A couple hours from now? Way different story. I worked a late shift, so I was actually in bed when the phone rang. A friend was calling to say a plane had just smashed into the WTC. I told her that wasn't very funny, she insistently told me to turn on the TV, so I did...
...right in time to see the second plane.
I was where I'll never be again. At 9:03am, realizing that what happened at 8:46 wasn't an isolated accident, the world I lived in was transformed.
Getting ready for a blind date. ugh. Went on the date and all we talked about was what was going on. We never dated again and never saw each other again.
I was taking my grad qualifying exam and the school decided not to tell us what was going on and interrupt the exam or they would have to re-administer the test. We came out and went to our designated classes and I remember there being an eerie silence as we walked the halls when typically you could hear some noise from the gym or teachers in their classrooms. We got to the class and our Spanish teacher met us at the door. She was speechless and in tears...She led us into the room and pointed up to the little TV that was mounted on the wall as she sobbed and went back to her little office. We filed in slowly and saw all the other upperclassmen and freshman watching in disbelief. We spent the rest of the day watching the news...I will never forget.
My thoughts and prayers go out to all the families that were impacted by 9/11
I was at work and my wife was at the doctor confirming what she already knew...we were expecting our 2nd child
Not watching a rerun.
And waking up to watch the news before walking to school and seeing the towers. (profanity) was weird at school, especially when none of the teachers would talk about it. I mean like the principal told all the teachers to not discuss it even though we all knew it was going on. Stupid magnet.
I was in my high school Army JROTC classroom and watched it all. Being right there in uniform watching it made it all the more real.
Getting ready to head into the office with the TV on, as the second plane hit it dawned on me that my sister, a flight attendant, was flying that day. She regularly flew out of Newark. Called mom to ask where my sister was flying from, she said Logan international, I told her to turn on the TV and I headed for my parents house(nearby), we waited for my sister to call us and let us know she was alright. She called, they had departed Logan en route to DFW, but FAA made them land in Memphis. She spent the next 3 days in Memphis. As soon as US airspace was open, her company asked her fly back into Newark so that they could get people out. It really shook her up flying in and the buildings not being there and all the smoke in their place. I visited NY in December of that year, started walking from the empire state bldg towards ground zero, stopping a fire stations along the way, it was an intensely emotional experience.
On a business trip to Minneapolis. My alarm went off and I turned on the TV to see the second plane hit the WTC. Everyone in the hotel went downstairs and sat together staring at the TV. We were supposed to fly home that day. We ended up "borrowing" our rental car and drove home listening to the radio all the way.
School. It happened while we where switching classes.
My friend came running in the classroom screaming "TURN ON THE T.V.!"
Watched just after the second plane hit and then the first tower collapse. I was out of school after that to go to work. The roads where eerily empty. Work was dead, everyone just watching the news. I watched gas prices jump 3 times that day.
It was just a typical day at work when I heard the news. We spent most of the day in a fog watching the news on tv and the internet.
Home with my little kids, watching the Today Show like I did every morning. Then they had breaking news that a plane had crashed into one of the towers. And then coverage of a second crash. It was beyond surreal. Then the coverage of the towers falling -- beyond belief. I called my husband at work to tell him the towers were gone, and he couldn't fathom it either. He kept saying, "What do you mean, gone?".
I remember walking outside a bit later with my infant in my arms, talking to neighbors who were gathering outside. I remember how eerie the sky was, with no planes anywhere. And then out of nowhere, one plane flanked by two fighter jets. We surmised it must have been the president heading back to Washington.
We couldn't get in touch with my brother-in-law who lived in New York. He worked nights and turns out he slept through all the commotion and television coverage. He called us when he woke up, wanting to know what was going on.
I was on active duty with the Air Force and on my way (on leave) to my brother's wedding. Spent a lot of time contacting my unit to validate I wasn't being recalled.
While the wedding was a great time, it was certainly overshadowed by what happened that week...and was still unfolding on Saturday.
I was driving to work at Edwards Air Force Base outside LA. I got the first news from the car radio as I pulled onto the highway. Both towers had been hit. There were reports of a bomb at the Pentagon and fires on the Mall in DC.
When I got to base the young Marines at the gate who work BDUs and maybe a sidearm the day before were in full battle dress. A military truck with a manned, roof mounted machine gun was parked just inside the gate.
Not long after I got to my building the base closed. Everyone was required to stay in the building they were in. We got some news from the radio (running the CNN audio). Our coworkers who were in another building for a brief didn't even have that. One called me not long after the first tower fell. He didn't even know the second tower had been hit.
We were able to get off base around noon. I went home, turned on the tv and saw the images for the first time. I called my Mom and my sister. I had been in California about two weeks. I felt very alone.
My wife's 21st birthday was 11 years ago today. We were suppose to fly out to Vegas the next day but of course that didn't happen. We ended up driving out there to meet up with her family. The drive was eerily desolate, no one was on the roads. It was a very somber trip. Everyone was was stuck in Vegas because all the flights had been cancelled. All the car rental places were price gouging because people had no other way to get home. All the massive televisions in all the casinos played news 24 hours a day......Never Forget
Just got done with my morning class at GT, then ran home to get my stuff to go to work. My wife called me on the phone and told me about a plane crashing into the WTC. I turned on CNN and saw the second plane hit.
Left Atlanta, started driving to my job in Stone Mountain. I remember driving down North Ave, looking at the BoA Tower, being terrified that something would happen while I was driving past.
Everyone in the office had their TVs on. The first tower fell while I was on my way. Got to work just in time to see the second tower fall.
Needless to say, I didn't get much done that day.
I remember Scott Slade from WSB Radio was on the air for 36 hours straight as more details kept coming out about the story. I think the news director had to force him to go home.
Sitting at my desk when my husband called to tell me the first plane had struck. We thought it was a bizarre accident at first, but I dashed up to the CEO's office to tell him to turn on the only TV in the building. A handful of us stayed there to watch the second plane crash. Like everyone else, that's when we realized that it wasn't just as accident. I wanted desperately to pick up my kids from their schools and take them home to just hug them, but the CEO sent the Directors back to our work areas to calm our people. Of course, we all spent the rest of the day following events on the internet, talking to our families by phone, and milling around crying. Still hard to believe.
Sixth grade, lunch time. We were talking/ celebrating a friend's birthday, when people start leaving the school in masses, their parents picking them up. Word was that there was a bomb threat to the school, among other ideas but that was the most prevalent. My dad picked me up shortly after. Being so young the gravity of the situation didn't really set in right away, but my parents and I watched the news all day
I was in El Salvador on a mission trip. I went to eat breakfast with a family we knew and they told us that someone was blowing up the USA. Thankfully they had a small TV and we were able to watch in utter disbelief. It didn't seem nearly as real since I wasn't in the states. Many of the locals were telling us how sorry they were for weeks after.
I live in Arizona and was working nights at the time, so it was early (I think it was 6 am) thus I was fast asleep. My wife called me way early from work and told me to turn on the TV. I stayed and watched all day
6th grade home room. Watched it, not exactly understanding what was going on, but I knew it wasn't good.
I had turned on the tv to get the weather while I tied my shoes. Saw the smoke coming out of the WTC, thought "(profanity), stupid idiot" then watched as the second plane hit the other tower and horrified, couldn't think a word. I went on to catch my vanpool, we listened on our way to work and heard the 3rd plane hit the Pentagon. Watched the towers come down, nobody was working. Some of the old guys were muttering about "glass parking lots". It took me a couple minutes to realize they were talking about Nuking the middle east. Saw the towers come down and we were sent home. It was wierd, no planes in the sky. We're on the flight path to Seattle. For the next six months security was tight.
Waking up to my sister's voice on the answering machine saying "Turn on the TV as soon as you get up." I had worked overnight, taken her son to preschool for her, and was crashed on her couch. I turned on the tv, and saw the second plane hit. The sound was off, and I remember thinking "That is going to be an awesome movie!" I hit the volume button to find out it was reality. The rest of the day was like a bizarre episode of Teletubbies where it kept playing again and again. I couldn't look away or turn it off, because as soon as I did, it was going to real and everything was going to change.
Standing outside when my brother (who was listening to a hockey game) came out and told us what happened. We immediately went over to our grandpas house to see what was happening.
In my eighth grade science class. Mrs. Rose came into the class and informed us of what happened. She said "Something terrible has happened." I remember a TV being wheeled into the classroom so that we could watch what happened. I didn't really understand how huge this event was at the time. It was also my friend's birthday and I remember having steaks and burgers at his place after school and walking by the TV to see that the coverage was on every channel.
I was painting my house. I walked in to drink a pop and turned on the TV, the first plane had hit, I sighed and said oh, that is too bad.
I came in a few hours later and saw a 2nd plane had hit, I only watched it for a few seconds. At the time thought it was some sort of plane to put out the fire that got too close.
I was working in Reston, VA at our offices for the week (I'm from the NYC area) and I actually got in early that day. As people came in I heard more from the radio reports. Our boss sent someone to Target to get an antenna for the TV we had in the Lab.
We were glued to the screen until the first tower fell...then the second...
That's when all the local guys in the office went home and came back armed. No one knew what was happening or what to expect, but they were going to be ready.
The phone lines were jammed so I couldnt call my parents in NY to tell them I was ok, but I sent an e-mail that they read a day or two later. (I was able to get through that night).
I was at my apt, on my way to work. Spent the next few hours trying to find out any status on my father. Luckily he was fine. He spend the day bussing people from lower Manhattan to uptown.
I was on my planning period with about 20 mins left before my 6th Grade class showed up when the first plane hit.
I watched the TV in my classroom, got an email from an assistant principal (addressed to the whole staff) telling us not to have our TVs on because "kids do not need to deal with this."
Yeah, we all left our TVs on the entire day and watched it when the kids arrived. We all knew they were going to be dealing with it whether that AP liked it or not.
edit: Several Wooters said THEY were in 6th Grade in 2001. Weird.
I was in college. I woke up to see the second plane hit & a little bit of news coverage. I listened to what I could before I had to go to class ( the teacher had a 'you better be dead if you miss my class' attitude ). All of us students showed up & were in class for about 20 minutes before they cancelled classes for the day.
I ended up spending most of the rest of my day with a few friends that lived in NYC, one of which had relatives that worked within a half block of the towers. ( he later found out that she was fine ).
Usually I don't get the news first in my household as my target audience works at a newspaper. That day she had a day off and was home with my youngest brother, who'd moved in with us. I was due at the theatre for a rehearsal. Walked into the building and there was an air of attention, a gravity, everyone clustered, listening to the radio. I heard "Logan Airport" and started worrying about my sister and her family in Boston. Then I figured out what was going on, called home to wake people up and let them know what had happened. It was very difficult to explain to a half asleep person, the scale of the disaster being something no one wants to have imagined.
I remember being very glad the people I loved were somewhere safe and heart wrecked at the thought of those who didn't have that comfort.
I was at work.
@xarous: I wish I could +1 you more than once.
I remember looking out at the sky that night. I could usually see a string of planes on approach to Atlanta. Not that night . . . completely empty sky.
And oh yeah, I also learned later that the airport RIGHT NEXT TO MY HOUSE (Briscoe Field in Lawrenceville, GA) was where Mohamed Atta got his pilot's training. Pretty scary $%#@
I was a long haul trucker then and was parked at the company terminal in Forest Park, Georgia, just south of Atlanta. I was in my semi and heard some talk on the CB radio, so I turned on my tv in time to see the first tower collapse. Was glued to the tv the rest of the day - the terminal was located close to the airport landing flight path, so we constantly saw pairs of jets coming in to land.... then all flights were grounded... still amazes me that no commercial jets flew anywhere in the country for a few day. In my travels around the country after that day I saw how we Americans bonded and came together to appreciate what we have and reached out to help those in need.
A miracle happened that day. Not a single cloud over the North American continent. The only planes that crashed were the hijacked ones. Can you imagine landing all those planes in bad conditions? Some of those planes landed on jam-packed runways or runways considered short for the plane. There was no margin for error.
I was sitting in my elementary school classroom. We were having carpet time. My teacher got up when the room phone rang. After she answered, her face became very grave and closed off as if she had heard something terrible. It turns out that she had heard some bad news, some very bad news. Then parents started coming to pick up my classmates. Soon it was my turn to go home. I didn't really understand what had happened until later.
Working as a resident at Columbia Presbyterian in New York. I'd been on call the night before, and was doing my morning work after the all-nighter when the planes hit. We could see the smoke from the rooftop, even though we were up at the northern tip of Manhattan. The hospital scrambled like I'd never seen, we literally emptied out the ICU of anyone not on death's door and discharged everyone from the hospital who didn't absolutely need to be in the hospital, desperate to make room for all of the injured survivors. And they never came. I remember how sad we all were, I stayed despite zero sleep, and remember just sitting on the stoop in the ambulance bay outside the ER, that blue blue sky we had, wishing so hard ambulance sirens would come, and they just never came.
@matasar: "...wishing so hard ambulance sirens would come, and they just never came." That's an interesting perspective on the day and the events that happened. It makes sense. But just drives home again more of the tragedy of the day.
My little brother came running upstairs saying a building was on fire somewhere... I had no idea the building was THAT BIG. It didn't really hit until my first hour geometry class with Mrs. Schultz's in the 9th grade... wow, some vivid pictures.
I was also in high school, living 1 hour south of Boston, so 6 hours north of NYC. It was first period, in a very small school, which started at 8 am. It was my senior year in high school, I was 17.
The period never finished. The principle walked in and explained that a plane had hit one of the world trade towers in NYC, and that the TV in the lobby was on the news and that we were welcome to watch. No one knew yet, that the first plain was intentional and that there was a second plane on the way.
My classmates and I stood there, for what seemed like and eternity, but had only been 45-60 minutes. In that time the second plane hit the second tower, and we all watched it. All the freshmen through to the seniors. And then, the unthinkable happened. The first tower collapsed. We all stood there in shock, and awe. Then time seemed to speed up, and before we knew it the second tower fell. I remember thinking, all of us at such a young age, just witnessed the death of thousands of people.
In high school. And "celebrating" my 18th birthday...
Enroute to work, Pearl Harbor Navel Station. Remember, Hawaii is many hours behind NY. So it was very early morning for me. Probably ~6am. First thing I noticed was that the base was locked down and traffic was at a stand still. I had no clue what was going on. Cars were trickling in. About 7:30am, I got through the gate and was able to get onto my ship where I was made aware of the situation. Within 15 minutes, my ship went to general quarters due to some unresponsive planes in the air. Two other ships pulled lines and got underway immediately. I spent the next 48 hours on the ship (no big deal) before they worked out a 1/2 and 1/2 watch rotation. Half the ship leaves for 24 hours, comes back and switches places with the other half. Did that for a few weeks, then moved into a 3 section watch rotation. Sat that way for months.
Though slightly inconvenient, it was nothing. I spend months at a time aboard the ship. I'd do it all again three times over given the same situation.
At primary school. Hope for world peace.
Oh, wow. My comment was deleted. I can only assume because it was sarcastic. Imagine that--sarcasm on Woot. Well, if that one ticked you off, wait'll you get a load of the winner question I have lined up for tonight!


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