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Filer's Files
By George Filer
MUFON Eastern Region Director
May 21, 2008
George Filer: email@example.com
See all the photos at: www.nationalufocenter.com
and http://www.ufoweek.com
Dedicated to 5 year old Georgie Filer V whose motto was "Be Happy."
Nazca Lines Solved
This week's Files report: The Meaning of the Nazca Lines of Peru is a Terminal VFR Aerial Chart, Mars Lander's Phoenix Touchdown on May 25, 2008, and Fire Fighters Guide Part #11,
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena were spotted over: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.
UFOs were also seen in Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, New Zealand, Thailand and the UK.
These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over one hundred UFOs reported each week represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. It is my belief that God has spread intelligent civilizations throughout the universe and his messengers flew UFOs.
In the Living Bible, A Captain of Yhovah's Army
Joshua 5:13 As Joshua was sizing up Jericho, a man appeared nearby with his sword drawn. Joshua strode over to him and demanded, Are you friend or foe? I am Commander in Chief of the Lord's Army. And Joshua fell to the earth, and did worship him.
Mars Lander's Phoenix Touchdown on May 25, 2008
Many of our researchers have indicated there is water and life on Mars. Now NASA's mantra to "Follow the water" will again be tested when the new Phoenix Mars Lander touches down on May 25, 2008.
Powered by solar panels, Phoenix is set to take a three-month tour of the plains near the north pole of Mars, enduring surface temperatures from –100 to – 28 degrees Fahrenheit (–73 to –33 degrees Celsius). The craft is designed to dig into the cementlike layer of ice that researchers believe lies buried a few inches below the surface in the planet's polar regions, scanning for signs of past liquid water and organic compounds, the carbon-rich molecules that make life on Earth possible.
Assuming, that is, it survives entry. Only five of 13 attempts to land on Mars have succeeded. The $420-million Phoenix is the sibling mission of the doomed Mars Polar Lander (MPL), which crashed during landing in 1999. Since then, however, NASA has successfully carried out four missions to Mars, including landing the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity. And NASA says that it has taken steps to prevent Phoenix from suffering its predecessor's fate.
Phoenix will be the first craft to touch down using rocket thrusters since the Viking 2 lander, some 32 years ago.
For Phoenix's landing site, mission planners settled on an extremely flat elliptical swath roughly 60 miles by 10 miles in area. Thanks to NASA
South America conformed to a global pattern that most of the world's earliest and greatest civilizations evolved in semi-desert regions which were enriched by irrigation projects. The Sumerian civilization began on the bank of the Euphrates, the Egyptians on the banks of the Nile, the Harappan on the banks of Indus, and the Maya in arid valleys of Mexico. We have speculated that the ancient astronauts gave primitive humans a hand in constructing their buildings and an establishing civilization.
"The Ancient Civilizations of Peru" by Alden Mason explains that the first of these ancient civilizations began to emerge about 4,000 years ago on the coast of Peru in the fertile land along the mouths of a dozen or so rivers. These were a simple and peaceful people, living in small cultivable oases by the sea, fishing, raising a few food crops, living in non-masonry houses, and making the objects necessary for their economic and household life, with scant attention to art.
In addition, high up in the Andes at altitudes over 10,000 feet lived a very different races of Aymaraes, and Huancas with remarkably elongated heads who had hearts 20% larger than normal humans. They had 15 per cent more blood than normal that contained an above-average quota of red corpuscles and hemoglobin. Their lung sacs, which transfer oxygen from air to blood, were not only larger than normal, but were kept permanently dilated to provide the maximum surface for transferring oxygen. Hundreds of bodies have been found with elongated cone heads and ancient skull surgery: i.e.,
The cone heads were apparently prehistoric engineers who built excellent canals, operated and maintained them with remarkably sound empirical knowledge of the principle of open flow hydraulics and water distribution. Note the skull of a probable builder of the Nazca Lines had an elongated skull. This shows skull in an ancient grave at Cahuachi, Nazca.
The Nazca Lines are located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the pampa (a large flat area of southern Peru). Many link this area with alien visitors who still interact with local people to this day. The Nazca Lines are an enigma. No one has proof who built them or why. At ground level there is little to see and they were not discovered until commercial airliners flew over the area in the 1920's. Passengers reported seeing 'primitive landing strips' on the ground below. The sign the area from the ground.
Since their discovery, the Nazca Lines have inspired fantastic explanations from ancient gods, a landing strip for returning aliens, a celestial calendar created by the ancient Nazca civilization who also had the strange elongated heads as seen in this skull of a typical Nazca grave.
The designs cover nearly 400 square miles of desert. Etched in the surface of the desert pampa sand about 300 hundred figures made of straight lines, geometric shapes most clearly visible from the air.
There are various designs consisting of figures of animals, flowers and plants, objects, and anthropomorphic figures of colossal proportions made with well-defined lines. The most well-known being is The Astronaut at 32m length discovered by Eduardo Herran in 1982.
Maria Reiche was a German mathematician and archaeologist who was famous for researching the Nazca Lines. She believed the lines were an Astronomical Calendar indicating the direction of the rising of important stars and planetary events like sun solstices. Formations like the spider and the monkey could show star constellations like Orion and Ursa Mayor.
Reiche led a determined effort to discredit theories of extraterrestrial visitors. She argued that the Nazca Indians constructed the Lines some time between 300 BC and AD 800 based on radiocarbon dates, of ceramic and wood remains which were left by the Nazcan people. The dating only proves the Nazcans lived in the area of the Nazca Lines since the Lines themselves cannot be radiocarbon dated, the possibility remains that they already existed when the Nazcan culture emerged.
The second piece of evidence is the alleged resemblance of the Nazca geoglyphs to certain features found on Nazcan pottery. This is an important issue because it potentially offers proof that the Nazcans had either designed the images or at least viewed them from the air.
Let's assume we were in a spacecraft entering the Earth's atmosphere over the North Pole. We fly south along the coast of the Americas and reach Peru. A giant Trident or Candelabra is carved into the side of a mountain near Pisco pointing southeast toward the Nazca lines. The sign shows a pyramid near the bottom and our space ship at the top and tells us to change heading to southeast.
Upon reaching the Nazca area he would see various animals pointing to the key cities of ancient Peru. This is very similar to VFR aerial charts issued today only the chart is drawn on the ground with huge formations hundreds of feet long pointing to your destination. The map below depicts the key formations in the Nazca area. The mountain in the upper left is pointing toward Machu Picchu that translated means "The Old Mountain". The astronaut head and the lizard are pointing to the Urubamba Valley (Sacred Valley) of the Andes mountain range. Another bird and the tail of the whale are pointing to Lake Titicata towards the southeast.
The hummingbird below with the long peak is pointing to Cuzco, a city meaning naval.
The Nazca lines cannot be recognized as coherent figures except from the air. Since it is presumed the Nazca people could never have seen their work from this vantage point, there has been much speculation on the builders' abilities and motivations. The obvious conclusion is that they were signaling to flying objects passing over.
The Aymaraes and the Huancas races who had the large cone heads worshipped a flying storm God. Within the Temple of the Sun in Cuzco a golden statue of Illap, "The Flashing on," shared the same altar as images of the sun and the creator. The flash of his sling was lightning, that would cause the rain to fall.
Interestingly, almost all the famous textiles of the lowland Paracas are richly decorated with flying creatures combining human, feline and bird characteristics. In practically every case the textiles show flying who are devouring heads or tiny human bodies. Their belief system shows a great fear of the flying objects and the beings with cone heads. All the designs share a sense of action and the winged beings are shown in full flight. This textile was made about 400 BC, and is considered more valuable than gold and as the finest textiles in the world that still hold their color.
Around 3400 BC, when the Great Pyramid of Egypt was only a century old the ancient Peruvians already displayed many of the attributers we associate with civilization. There were large permanent settlements and they acquired artistic and religious values and were capable of organizing massive construction projects. The fact that all this had happened before they became dependent on agriculture—indeed, before they became dependent on agriculture – indeed, before they had even begun to make pottery-took an entire generation scholars by surprise.
Evan Hadingham "Lines to the Mountain Gods", states, "The building of Machu Picchu would have been a gargantuan undertaking , involving tens of thousands of artisans over several decades, and it seems probable that Cusichaca was developed as an immensely cultivated area in order to supply this labour with food.
"The Incredible Incas" by Loren McIntyre indicates some of the nobility are unusually intelligent and different from other humans. Page 81 states, "But I recalled Father Cobo had written 300 years ago of the Andean Indians' warm bloodedness, in freezing weather, if you touch their hands, you find them remarkably warm...they sleep by the road where ever night overtakes them, uncovered to the sky, through palm width of snow may fall, they sleep as if in soft beds." I ascribe this extreme warmth to their having stomachs more rugged than the ostrich..."When food is free they eat like wolves. Dr. Ismael Escobar a nuclear physicist asked, "Could cosmic rays bring about mutation that could cause genetic change?"
Dolichocephalic or cone heads compared to the Human skull
I ask if it is possible that the Aymaraes and the Huancas race descended from spaceman? Their heads are almost twice as large as normal humans. The later Incas eventually conquered and area larger than the Roman Empire. They built some of largest structures in history, and cultivated vast areas using construction techniques of great precision virtually the same as those in Egypt. But they built many of their cities at extreme altitude where visitors have trouble breathing and if you smoke you are likely to pass out.
I am aware these large heads cause an embarrassment to the modern theories of evolution, how could heads so large develop different from humans, Neanderthals or even Cro-Magnon man?
I wonder why the ceramics, the ladies hats and textiles depict spaceman and spaceships? Despite conquistadors, religious pressures and the westernized society in many Peruvian towns, the memories of the past are kept alive in Andean culture with disc shaped hats and textiles showing flying creatures.
In the "Chariots of the Gods" Erich Von Danikens asks, "But what can have induced the pre-Inca peoples to build the fantastic lines, the landing strips, at Nazca?" What madness could have driven them to create the 830 foot stone signs on the red cliffs south of Lima? These tasks would have taken decades without modern machines and appliances. Their whole activity would have been senseless if the end product of their efforts had been had not been as signs to beings approaching them from great heights. The stimulating question still has to be answered: Why did they do all this if they had no idea that flying beings actually existed? Page 18.
BUENA VISTA -- Archeologists working high in the Peruvian Andes have discovered the oldest known celestial observatory in the Americas — a 4,200-year-old structure marking the summer and winter solstices that is as old as the stone pillars of Stonehenge. The observatory was built on the top of a 33-foot-tall pyramid with precise alignments and sightlines that provide an astronomical calendar for agriculture, archeologist Robert Benfer of the University of Missouri said. The people who built the observatory — three millenniums before the emergence of the Incas — are a mystery, but they achieved a level of art and science that archeologists say they did not know existed in the region until at least 800 years later.
The find adds strong evidence to support the recent idea that a sophisticated civilization developed in South America in the pre-ceramic era, before the development of fired pottery sometime after 1500 BC. The 20-acre site, called Buena Vista, is about 25 miles inland in the Rio Chillon Valley, just north of Lima. "It is on a totally barren, rock-covered hill looking down on a beautiful fertile valley," said Benfer, who presented the find last month in Puerto Rico at a meeting of the Society for American Archeology. The site contains ruins dating from 10,000 years ago to well into the ceramic era in the first millennium BC. Thanks to National Geographic.
Part 10
UFOs--EMERGENCY ACTION -- WARNING "Near approaches of UFOs can be harmful to human beings. There is a possibility of radiation danger and there are known cases where persons have been burned by rays emanating from UFOs. Don't take chances with UFOs!"
In view of the federal law empowering NASA's administrator to impound, without a hearing, anyone who touches a UFO or its occupants; it would be inadvisable to make personal contact unless you are willing to submit to NASA's quarantine requirements, should the law be invoked. Besides the possible physical effects of approaching a UFO, e.g.. burns, radiation, etc., there may be psychological effects produced by force fields that could induce a hypnotic state in the viewer, loss of consciousness, memory relapse, and submission to the occupants. Jacques Vallee, author of "The Invisible College" cautions that we should consider psychic effects, such as space-time distortions experienced by percipients of craft-like devices which appear to fade away--dematerialize--and then reappear; of alien, strange voices or thoughts that may effect involuntary changes in the manner in which witnesses may react in such circumstances.(72)
Perhaps the above warnings of Edwards and Vallee are a little too cautious and apprehensive to adopt as a general pattern of conduct in every situation. In the absence of overt acts indicating hostility, there may be no danger in approaching a landing (or landed) UFO with a positive, solicitous attitude of wanting to be of service. This nonaggressive mental state may be telepathically sensed by those aboard or emerging from the craft; a form of nonvocal communication is a possibility. It goes without saying that any display of firearms or other weapons on your part could be construed as unfriendly and likely to thwart your intention of conveying a helpful attitude. In a best case scenario, you may be able to obtain guidance as to the appropriate actions to take, whether of a life-saving nature, e.g., in quelling a fire, abating a spill, and of preservation of property, or even in the reduction of apprehension on the part of your response team and the spectators. In a less optimistic scenario, you may have engine trouble upon approaching the scene, and radio contact could be lost with your dispatcher.
Your headlights could go out, the city could be blacked out, and your portable generators may malfunction when you attempt to use them for fans and portable lights. It would certainly be an inopportune time for our comrades to announce that they had decided to take their pensions, effective immediately. In any event, the incident could provide invaluable experience for further training in coping with rare and difficult emergencies. Whatever "inside" information you are able to pass along to your fellow officers and citizens of the world might help to alleviate unreasonable fear, so that there would be less likelihood that we would ever again experience the panic and hysteria that was created by War of the Worlds a half century ago. Truth is the best cure for the unknown. A list of some of the available books on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) is found in Appendix H.
CONCLUSION Some fire chiefs have little confidence in disaster plans, especially those dealing with UFOs or enemy attack. If you develop a plan that sets forth your responsibilities, resources, organizations, supplies information, telephone numbers, and special data that will be useful in obtaining help and fulfilling your role in disaster control, commit it to an electronic medium, a computer with a capability for continuous updating through modern word processing. Bring it forth when the need requires. With a good plan, good leadership, and adequate resources, you may save many lives in any disaster, including attack from possible enemies.
Thanks to William Kramer Ph.D and Charles W. Bahame, J.D.
The film is opening at the Cannes Film Festival and its released trailer shows a crate marked "Roswell, New Mexico 1947, where a UFO is believed to have crashed. Not generally realized is that the Indiana Jones was in its earliest carnation going to be about saucer men from Mars but extraterrestrial origins were dropped. The Crystal Skull apparently has to do with an extinct civilization apparently with an extraterrestrial twist. Instead of clarity, we are treated to airy philosophizing, such as when one character, with a Yoda-like flourish, refers to the ancients' relationship to ''the space between the spaces.''
We do know that it's the Cold War 1950s. Indy played by Harrison Ford has been kidnapped at the behest of the power-mad, slinky Soviet femme fatale Irina Spalko played by Cate Blanchett, vamping in a formfitting gray uniform. Irina wants him to help find the skull because it's the key to mind-controlling knowledge. Mutt, meanwhile, wants Indy to help him find his missing mother. Anyhow, if Indy is a salty coot, the movie sticks to the old ways, too. At its best, it's a satisfying shuffle of the deck of famous Spielbergian moments that have gone before in E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
SIEM REAP -- My wife and I were on a visit to the Angkor Wat Temples on May 16, 2008, about 4:30 PM, and were taking pictures walking on the bridge over the lake surrounding the temple complex when my wife decided to take some pictures of the entrance from behind us. We were totally unaware of any unusual objects in the sky and really didn't see anything out of the ordinary until we zoomed in on the pictures. To my surprise in two of the pictures taken of the entrance I could see some bright objects in what seems to be some kind of formation. These were the only pictures we took in that direction.
TUCSON -- A friend and I saw four objects hovering in the sky near Davis Monthan Air Force on May 16, 2008, at 9:15 PM. The objects were oval shaped, bright, white lights. They didn't seem to be forming any specific type of pattern. It was totally amazing! I have never seen anything like that. At one point two of the lights just turned off and they appeared to be gone. Within seconds the lights turned on again and they were back. Shortly after, the same two lights turned off again and never turned back on. Then the third light turned off and finally the fourth light turned off and they were gone.
About 45 minutes later, we saw a flashing red light flying the perimeter of that same area. This flashing red light was just going around circling the area where my friend and I saw the 4 objects. My friend seems to think that was the military checking out the area because they probably spotted the 4 objects on radar.
I wish I knew more about this stuff. I was a total non-believer until yesterday. Now, I want to see more! Thanks to Brian Vike, Director of HBCC UFO Research, http://www.hbccufo.org
DANA POINT -- The photographer who submitted the Dana Point photo stated that - of all the photos he had taken on May 6, 2008 - this was the only photo with "this object in it" as if he was not aware that two distinct objects are evident. The white sphere is 60% larger than bent tubular cylindrical object (C.O.) just below it, and shadow under the sphere seems to be darker than shadow of the cylinder. The sphere appears to be somewhat closer to the camera.
The cylinder seems to have some connection to the adjacent cloud and with the sphere. The cylindrical object (C.O.) has 90-degree bend downward where it seems to penetrate the cloud. Diameter of C.O. is less than the diameter of sphere, and C.O. appears to be light blue-white in color. The C.O. seems to be too narrow to account for the wide shadowed area under and between the horizontal end of the object and its 90-degree bend. There is a white cap like disturbance on the surface of the water immediately below the down-turned end of the C.O. Thanks to engineer John E. Combest
FONTANA/RANCHO, CUCAMONGA -- I just got home with my wife after driving around for a while, practicing her driving skills on May 15, 2008, at 10 PM. As soon as we got out of the car, I decided to look up into the night sky to see if I would spot any UFO's. I've been pretty much keeping an eye out for these things since I've been doing my research on the phenomenon. I looked up and noticed a very faint light formation that appeared to be a very distant airplane moving northbound in the direction of the mountains. Thanks to Brian Vike, Director of HBCC UFO Research, http://www.hbccufo.org
JAY -- We have a picture which we took of a drill rig on May 13, 2008 at 9:09 AM. What is hanging in the picture above the snubbing north of Pensacola in the Florida Panhandle.
Comments: I am not sure of the identity of the object in the photo. It doesn't appear to be an insect or bird. However, the object is out of focus and could have been close to the camera. If this is true the object could have an "out of focus" bird or insect. The witnesses did not see anything and only noticed the object after viewing the photo. Lack of witnesses seeing anything unusual reduces the chance that the object is anything unexplainable. The photo was taken with a Canon Powershot A400 Digital Camera. (The camera has a maximum resolution of 3.2 megapixels.) Thanks to William Puckett UFOS Northwest http://ufosnw.com
AUGUSTA -- I was driving home from work, on Riverwatch Parkway heading toward downtown on May 15, 2008, at 1:54 AM. Above the old Grantiville Plant I saw a bright orb white in color. It came out of nowhere and started descending really fast. I thought it was a small aircraft at first. I drove in the direction I thought it fell but saw nothing no smoke, etc. The light (object) was reported as descending.
Comments: This scenario probably means that it has a conventional explanation, but given limited data I can't identify what was seen. Thanks to William Puckett UFOS Northwest http://ufosnw.com
LAFAYETTE -- I am a recent graduate of Purdue University and what I saw took place at about 10:30 PM, on April 16, 2008. I was standing on my balcony and noticed a light in the eastern sky that I assumed was an airplane landing at the Purdue Airport. I decided to watch it fly over but, an orange or yellow light did not move. It disappeared for a brief moment and then reappeared as five or seven similar lights forming a circle then flew to take the shape of a horizontal line.
Then from that line, another line of lights seemed to project from the horizontal line toward a vertical position. During this time, the entire array of lights seemed to move slightly north. The way the second line projected from the first was similar to the way a movie click board opens. The lines moved independent of each other and began moving around each other. Finally, after witnessing this, which I would say took place for about 15 seconds, I ran inside to get my roommate to see it, but when we returned it was gone. I also saw a few planes or jets flying all around the sky right. They told me that many people in Kokomo saw this. Thanks to Brian Vike, Director of HBCC UFO Research, http://www.hbccufo.org
WAYNE -- As I was driving down Route 23 southbound approaching Newark-Pompton Crossroad on May 17, 2008, and I spotted a shiny object in the pale blue sky at 8:55 AM. It was at an unknown distance/altitude and looked like tiny sphere moving parallel with the ground. I kept my eyes on it for no more than five seconds when it seemed to literally shrink out of site in less than a second. It was moving about the speed of an airliner which is what I thought it was at first until I watched it vanish. I did not blink. It all happened so fast that it made me very curious.
Several hours later when it occurred to me that I may have just witnessed a UFO. I suppose it is possible it was a jet that caught the sunlight at just the right angle and then turned in a way that caused it to lose its reflectiveness. Thanks to MUFON CMS
RALEIGH DURHAM -- I was observing a few low clouds in a sunny blue sky when the sun gleamed off an airliner on its approach to land on September 12, 2002. I watched the airliner fly over a cloud as it descended and at the edge of a cloud, a huge cylinder emerged from the cloud just below the airliner. The cigar shaped craft continued matching the airliner's speed, but directly beneath it, until the cigar craft entered the edge of another cloud. I watched the airliner continue descent flying above the second cloud and observed the cigar shape enter and disappear into the cloud.
The airliner continued descent until it turned left for the final into RDU airport, but the cigar never emerged from the second cloud. The cigar craft was as long as the second cloud and barely fit within it. I was very surprised it did not emerge and continued watching to see it come out. It never did emerge and I watched until the cloud disappeared.
I had no camera available. I painted the scene as I saw it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
YORK -- Up to nine reports where called into Shadow Research, Inc toll free hotline on April 25, 2008. Witnesses called to report five white spheres traveling through the sky, stopping and moving in rapid circles in the sky and sometimes dropping very low over houses. The objects where spotted over York, Tropper, Collegeville, Devon and Broomall Pennsylvania over a three hour period. One witness called to report that there were white lights very low over her backyard swimming pool, and her dog was barking at the objects. At 10:40 PM, I received a call from a witness in Collegeville, who was viewing five white spheres of light maneuvering and circling very fast near the Limerick Nuclear Power plant. He also submitted a cell phone camera picture, which is shown here. I think there are more people who saw the objects this night and would like to contact anyone else who may have seen something. Thanks to Randy Baker, Director of Shadow Research, Inc www.shadowresearch.com
Object photographed on May 10, 2008.
The disc has been enlarged and gamma increased. Steve A. Hudgeons - Chief Investigator for MUFON in Texas completed his investigation and feels the case is a hoax – primarily because there is no data to contact photographer. Thanks to MUFON CMS
RESTON -- As we were driving nearby the elementary school we felt a mental spike through our minds. We automatically looked up through sunroof, and saw a UFO with spikes. Its shape was tear dropped and had a red ball trailing behind it on May 16, 2008 at 3:15 PM. It was red then it was gone in an instant on Thanks to Brian Vike, Director of HBCC UFO Research, http://www.hbccufo.org
ASHFORD – Yesterday, May 16, 2008 in late afternoon my brother and I were taking pictures of sky trails about four miles north of Mt. Rainier Park. There was a whole bunch of trails in the clear sky and I was taking pictures of the jets leaving these trails. When I down loaded the pictures from my camera into the computer this little item showed up in one of the pictures. I enlarged the picture and its below to the right of the jet. Man this is scary and exciting at the same time.
Comments: The witness is obviously excited by what he photographed. However, the object is likely a bird that is out of focus. The camera used had a low resolution so a definitive shape cannot be determined through blowup.
ALVEAR -- Two spherical "objects" appear in the background. One is larger than the other and with its upper section somewhat clearer. These were not detected at the time that the photograph was taken using a Soni 7.2 mpix camera. The photo, from Alvear, shows a lawn hockey practice session and was taken on February 8, 2008. The object was only detected when the image was downloaded to the computer. Photo courtesy of Raul Chaves and CIUFOS-LAPAMPA,
LA PAZ – This photo was taken by Maria Griselda, a member of the Ciufos-LaPampa group. The object was taken over the colonial-era palace but was not visible at the time that the photo was taken. Another example of a "chance UFO"?
Image courtesy of Raul Oscar Chavez, Ciufos-LaPampa.and Inexplicata
I have attached the two pictures taken within a minute of each other. in the first picture there are 3 objects and in the second one these objects suddenly appear much farther apart. If you enlarge the second one more you will see more bright objects. I have zoomed some portions of the first picture for the sake of posting here. On zooming, there appears to be a faint outer shell and a glow in the centre. We used a Canon Powershot A570, 4x optical zoom, 7.1 mega pixel. Thanks to MUFON CMS
WALNUT GROVE, BRITISH COLUMBIA – A mystery lump of metal fell through roof at Costco warehouse in Monday afternoon, May 5, 2008, police say. The metal smashed through the roof between 3:00 and 3:30 PM. The unidentified item crashed down and onto the warehouse floor, where a number of employees routinely work, but there were no injuries said RCMP Cpl. Peter Thiessen according to The Langley Advance news. www.langleyadvance.com
ARBUTUS COVE, SAANICH B.C. -- We were watching the Pacific Ocean and the sky above Arbutus Road and saw a melon shaped UFO moving very fast on May 12, 2008, at 11:30 PM. Its high speed caught our attention. With a speed faster than any plane. It stopped at the Oak Bay area for a little, then moved north until it disappeared. With very bright flashing lights. The light was lighting the ocean under it. When it was moving, it was like it pushed itself frequently for moving. Thanks to Brian Vike, Director of HBCC UFO Research, http://www.hbccufo.org
I named this picture a few years ago as me with UFO in background a few years ago as a cute caption, but just realized that the object in the background is not the moon or any other known celestial being...you decide...no camera tricks. Thanks to MUFON CMS
CHRISTCHURCH -- A very bright solid light traveling through the sky at about 2/3rds of the height of a tree in our yard which was about 25 feet from where I was standing on May 14, 2008 at: 5:57 PM, it looked roughly to be 2 to 2.5 km's away over the estuary, it traveled to the southwest for approximately 15 seconds and went behind the tree, after repositioning to be able to see the light it could no longer be observed and yet the skies were clear in all directions there was no detectable noise and the light did not flash at all it just moved from one point in the sky to another point in the sky and wasn't there any more.
An hour and half later, a light not as bright as the first appeared to be higher up rotating in a tight circular motion, it gave me enough at to point it out for my wife and we both observed it for approximately one minute on May 14, 2008 at: 7:34 PM. It circled tightly in the same spot always coming back to the same position at 0 degrees to the horizon. Thanks to Brian Vike, Director of HBCC UFO Research, http://www.hbccufo.org
SATTAHIP -- Friends and I were attending three short plays at the hospital on May 17, 2008. During intermission we adjourned to the roof and noticed multiple lights blinking just above the southern horizon. First we saw three in a row, then several more, then two, then one, then three, etc., etc. These were star-like lights and were at least at 30,000 feet. They traveled roughly in formation from their point of origin on the southern horizon to overhead.
They were silent. We were having Cobra Gold, a joint military exercise between the US and Thailand militaries (especially US Navy). The local Thai Navy Base is at Sattahip, south of Pattaya, where we stood. The "craft" reminded me of Phoenix Lights and those multiple light objects filmed above Mexico City when government officials were present and cameras were tilted up to view scores of lights filling the skies. One or several self-luminous lights would blink on just above the south horizon, then continue flying to great height overhead, in a basic line. First three lights would appear. Then several more lights would blink on and continue their formation overhead. The lights were witnessed by at least three others besides me for about 12 minutes.
I am a long time MUFON member. I would guess there were at least 20-25 objects observed for 10 to 15 minutes. Everyone present was quite puzzled. The objects disappeared as they passed the hospital roof line overhead. The lights moved steadily and quietly. They were absolutely silent. Thanks to MUFON CMS
This is how one person described the UFO they had seen
Secret files on UFO sightings have been made available for the first time by the Ministry of Defence. The documents, which can be downloaded from the National Archives website, cover the period from 1978 to 1987.
They include accounts of strange lights in the sky and unexplained objects being spotted by the public, armed forces and police officers.
There are some reports from more official sources. The United States Air Force filed a report about two USAF policemen who saw "unusual lights outside the back gate at RAF Woodbridge" in Suffolk in December 1980. This relates to the well-known incident of an alleged alien encounter at Rendlesham Forest, dubbed "Britain's Roswell" after the supposed contact made with aliens at Roswell in the One of the Pcs, who saw the object through binoculars, described it as "circular in the middle with what appeared to be a dome on top and underneath" with different coloured United States.
Several drawings are visible in the files from those keen to demonstrate what they had seen.
One such sketch was made by Metropolitan Police officers, who were called out to a house in Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow on 26 April, 1984.
Three officers spent an hour observing the object in the sky, which "moved erratically from side to side, up and down and to and fro, not venturing far from the original position".
Visitors to the National Archives site will also find a videocast from Nick Pope, a British UFO specialist.
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I: Print Edition Cover Final
I meant to post this earlier, but have been quite busy getting ready for the launch of "I" next Wednesday. This is the final "grunged-up" layout for the print edition cover, as opposed to the "clean" version posted earlier.
The image is intended to depict the "Brotherhood of Men" mural painted on the walls of the Hall of Justice by the Home of Artists, a propaganda wing of the City Council. As such, I felt the shapeless, faceless "men's room" emblem was the ideal choice to represent the mindless mass of automatons that populate the City of Ayn Rand's Anthem. "I" is the story of their liberation.
The first shipment of print editions arrived this week:
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The Ann Arbor film festival tends to motivate people to pursue their passions and artistic abilities. As adults we often need such motivation, and yet for kids pursuing such dreams tend to come naturally. If your family is living near or in Ann Arbor or if you are new to Ann Arbor, you can find a range of performing art opportunities for your children.
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Ann Arbor Ballet Theatre offers Russian method ballet training for children ages four to adult. Children will train under Russian teachers who come to Ann Arbor for a master's program. These teachers will offer promising ballet students an opportunity to train in Russia. Every year this theatre puts on "The Nutcracker" at the Power Center for the Performing Arts for all Ann Arbor and surrounding area residents to enjoy.
Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts cultivates a core musical program ranging from early childhood music, youth orchestra, chamber music, jazz studies, string orchestra, and private instruction for toddlers through adult seniors.
Community School of Ballet is an educational institution that teaches the syllabi of the Royal Academy of Dance. Students will receive classical training in ballet and annual RAD examinations to those who wish to test themselves on the international standard of dance.
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Kenville Studios offers to teach youth how to write, produce, and preform in Puppet Theater; in addition to, youth ballet and art and movement summer camps.
MPulse Summer Performing Arts Institute is an intensive training program in theater and dance provided by the University of Michigan School of Music for high school students. During the program, students will have the opportunity to meet with college admission counselors and alumni along with the experience to live on campus.
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Sylvia Dance Studio incorporates Cecchetti ballet and jazz in its repertoire. Class size is limited so that students can benefit from an optimal dance experience.
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The Met Office's official forecast for this summer includes "periods of very hot weather", something of a contrast to the winter, which was correctly forecast as "periods of very cold weather" last year. The forecast, released on Wednesday, fuelled speculation that UK citizens would once again face water shortages once the rain gave way to sunshine.
Water company officials have assured the public that water reserves are high, and at present nearly all the buckets and even some emergency washing up bowls are at near full capacity. Anglia Water's Justin Nuff said "all the rain we have seen since last summer has supplied us with more than enough water to see us through even 2 days of moderate sunshine, no one needs panic". When pressed on the possibility of being able to water garden plants he added "it would be foolish of me to speculate about that now, but lets just say if you have a window box or hanging basket, it is 70% likely to live through the summer".
Pressed on the likelihood of motorists being able to wash their cars during the summer months, Mr Nuff was seen shaking his head but was heard to say "yes, that shouldn't be a problem for most people". However, when asked if 'most people' included water company directors and their large executive cars, he refused to make further comment.
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Earlier this week, Mike Peek was a high-profile temp worker racing down the field on the final play of the game between the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers, smack in the middle of the biggest controversy of the young NFL season. By Thursday, Peek had returned to his quiet life in Athens, Tex., where he teaches economics at Trinity Valley Community College and tries not to be that "little guy in the brown suit with the black skinny tie."
His last game was on ESPN, as the line judge of the replacement officiating crew that blew a call and gave the Seahawks a last-second victory. His next is likely to be on a high school field somewhere in Texas, far away from the bright lights and intense scrutiny of the National Football League.
"As an official, you want to get it to the top level, the big game in town," said Peek, 62, who lost his position as a replacement official when the league and the referees' union agreed to a new labor deal Wednesday night. "We got to the top game with 'Monday Night Football.' It was the only game in town."
After a three-month lockout, the NFL's regular officials returned to the field Thursday night in Baltimore for the Ravens game against the Cleveland Browns, bringing some semblance of normalcy back to the sport. Meanwhile, more than 100 replacement officials, referees and linesmen who'd donned the black and white stripes and faced boos from coast to coast, returned to their lives, trying to find some normalcy of their own.
Peek's final NFL contest will stand as one of the season's most memorable. In the final seconds, the Seahawks, trailing by five points, heaved a pass toward the end zone, where the side judge missed a pass interference call. The Packers appeared to intercept the ball, but the officials instead awarded Seattle with the game-winning touchdown.
As the line judge, Peek wasn't in the end zone when the call was made. But the result left a bitter taste in his mouth all the same.
"When it goes to the end and it ended so ugly, I was more disappointed that we didn't live up to what I wanted us to live up to," Peek said by telephone Thursday, the lone official from the crew to speak publicly. "I wanted us to go out close to a 300 game, as a bowler would. You always strive to bowl 300, you always strive for perfection. I thought we were doing well until right there late in the game. I was just disappointed that we didn't bowl a 300 game."
The NFL's replacement officials were recruited this spring and tasked with policing some of the fastest, most physical athletes on the planet. Their résumés were mixed. Some, like Peek, had worked top-level college games. Others threw yellow flags at middle-school games and in the Lingerie Football League, a women's outfit in which the players compete in revealing clothing.
Regardless of the officials' level of experience or expertise, Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, said during a conference call with reporters Thursday that mistakes and errors of judgement have always been a part of the game.
"I would say the folks on the field during the last three weeks were under unprecedented scrutiny," he said. "Everything they did, every call, was magnified. They kept the game going. They worked hard. They trained hard."
While Goodell and the owners were roundly criticized on barstools and Internet forums, the brunt of the week's anger focused on the seven-man crew from Monday night's game, the same crew that had worked the Washington Redskins game against the St. Louis Rams eight days earlier.
In the central California town of Santa Maria, roughly halfway between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo, people know Lance Easley — the side judge who made the ill-fated signal for a touchdown Monday night — as the tall, thin, gray-haired and good-natured vice president for small-business banking at the Bank of America branch near the Town Center Mall, and as a longtime referee for local junior college and high school games. Until the NFL hired him, Easley had never officiated at the sport's highest levels.
For Don Willis, the head football coach at Santa Maria High School, the best that could be said about Easley as a referee was that he was rarely noticed, the hallmark of an official who allows players to take center stage.
"I hate to see him getting beat up like this, because all my dealings with him have been positive. . . . It's not like he doesn't know the game," Willis said. "The problem is, there is a big difference between high school and the NFL. It's an unfortunate situation that happened, but my whole point is: What do you expect when you have officials that are not used to officiating professional games?"
Attempts to reach Easley Thursday were unsuccessful.
This summer, Easley reportedly attended a pair of training sessions with the Stars and Stripes Academy for Football Officials in Salt Lake City, which attempts to prepare prospective officials for Division I college football. But Karl Richins, who runs the academy, said his staff found Easley to be unfit for working at the game's highest levels.
"Our conclusion," Richins said in a telephone interview, "was that Lance was a good football official given the level he was at, which at that time was juco [junior college] and Division III, and we thought as a staff he . . . wasn't ready for Division I, let alone the NFL. We hadn't even talked about that."
"As I examined all the replacement officials, I just think they were outside of their ability," Richins continued. "They just found themselves way out over their skis. I have to guess the people who wanted the lockout over the quickest was those replacement officials."
Dan Ellington, head football coach at Pioneer Valley High School in Santa Maria, said in an email response that Easley had been excited to get a shot at officiating NFL games. "Who wouldn't be?" Ellington said.
"He is a person of great integrity," Ellington said. The replacement referees in the NFL, he said, "were put in a no-win situation."
The other official in the end zone Monday night was Derrick Rhone-Dunn, among the more experienced members of the crew. He was the back judge who had the best view of the play and initially signalled interception, which would have ended the game in the Packers' favor. Residing in Oklahoma City, where he's employed by the Federal Aviation Administration, Rhone-Dunn had previously worked Division I games in the Western Athletic Conference and the Big 12. He served on a Sugar Bowl crew and most recently officiated games in the Arena league.
"All he cares about is getting things right," said Gene Semko, a Texas-based official who has worked college games with Rhone-Dunn. "He's a quality person and a quality official as far as I'm concerned."
Rhone-Dunn, contacted by email, declined to comment.
Semko pointed out that regardless of their experience, the replacement crews were thrown into a difficult situation. Not only is the game faster and more physical than anything they'd seen, but the pressure is nothing like the high school and college games they were all used to.
"What do you expect?" he said. "When you put a motley group of guys together who don't have the trust in each other — I don't mean that in a negative way — but when you're in the same crew for years and years, you can read each other's body language, process everything together. These guys were just thrown out there."
For Peek, though, working NFL games was a dream situation. A referee at the college level for 27 years and for 40 overall, Peek tasted the NFL once before as a replacement, during a lockout back in 2001. But that amounted to just one preseason and one regular season game.
Eleven years passed and Peek got the call again in June, and after clinics in Atlanta, he found himself at Lambeau Field and Soldier Field, far away from the high school fields in Texas.
"We were hired knowing that the probability of a long-term situation wasn't there," Peek said. "We were hired to be fired, as you might say."
More on the Redskins and NFL:
After Seahawks-Packers debacle, an agreement
Hamilton: Seattle made it happen
Goodell apologizes, sort of, for lockout
The tipping point with the replacements
T. Williams misses another day of practice
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Following a meltdown that leads to a suspension, professional golfer Zoe Papadopoulos travels to her grandparents' village in Greece to escape the harsh spotlight of the international sports world. Between baking bread and eating baklava, she meets and mentors a ten-year-old girl who is determined - against all odds - to become the next golf sensation. Along the way, Zoe rediscovers her Greek heritage, her love of the game, and the hidden strength within herself as she inspires the townspeople in an epic showdown against a greedy American developer.
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Toddler's cuss word on 'Modern Family' draws ire
The F-bomb?
On this show it must be referring to the word fag.
Modern Family looks like an awful show anyways....I can see why libs love the show anything showing "alternate" families. The only redeaming quality of the show seems to be Sofía Vergara...
"Modern Family"? An ABC televison show? Where a 2 year old drops the f-bomb?
I don't see a problem here.
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If the word in question was "bleeped", you all do realize that they could have just made the child say the word "fudge" and then bleeped it for the sake of comedy?
Not saying this like I know how it's all done, but the purpose of good cinematography is to trick you and just because there was a "bleep" doesn't mean they really said a bad word.
That may very well be what happened. However, the fact is that it will be showing a 2 year old as having said the "f" word; and, this will be protrayed as very amusing.
Whether the little girl actress actually said the word or not; the purpose is to show how "funny" it would be to have a two year old say ****. It is just another way of deadening our outrage over such outmoded ideas as words that we shouldn't say.
The purpose of these types of programs (Modern Family, Glee, obligatory "gay couple" in every show you turn on), is to push the left-wing agenda onto the entire country. Hey, it's no big deal, what is YOUR problem.
""For what it's worth, I've always preferred the free market solution - Don't like it? Don't watch it"
That only works when people don't watch it. Modern Family is one of the most popular television shows in the country right now. People like it and that's just not right!!!
Kinda funny. Ed O'Neill is one of the stars on Modern Family. He knows all too well what happens when a single individual embarks on a crusade to bring attention to an offensive program. In the late 1980s, he was starring in a fledgling, little-watched sitcom on the then fledgling, little-watched Fox network. One of the few viewers of O'Neill's show was a housewife named Terry Rakolta. She didn't like what she saw. Didn't like it at all. So she embarked on a public crusade to get this show removed from the air. This little-watched show was Married with Children and Rakolta succeeded in bringing attention to this show. A lot of attention. Suddenly people were watching it to see what the fuss was about. And they kept watching it. And the rest is history."
Oh, I know that formula well. It worked for heavy metal in the 1980s and, soon after, rap music.
I have season one and two on DVD.
It's actually a funny show. I haven't seen the other seasons, so if it's gone downhill, I wouldn't know.
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- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2012 at 11:25 AM
""For what it's worth, I've always preferred the free market solution - Don't like it? Don't watch it"ReplyDelete
That only works when people don't watch it. Modern Family is one of the most popular television shows in the country right now. People like it and that's just not right!!!"
How dare people like what I don't like!!!Replies
- thatoneguyFebruary 17, 2012 at 5:16 PM
You forget Anonymous, the freepers have supply-side Jesus to guide their ways! They must spread his word, so that one day they may be blessed with blowjobs from Sarah Palin!Delete
- thatoneguyFebruary 17, 2012 at 5:14 PM
These people have nothing better to do than rant about a TV show they do not even watch. It's sad, really. Well, it would be sad if it weren't for the fact these people are all complete dickbags who bring it upon themselves.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 19, 2012 at 10:41 AM
That fourth comment could be construed as reason and/or common sense. I'm calling shenanigans.ReplyDelete


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As I watched my daughter celebrate another birthday this week, I spent a lot of time trying to remember what I was like at 11 years old. It seems a little easier to remember what I wasn't.
I wasn't 'tech savvy'.....I'd never even heard that term! I wasn't battling with my mom over shorts that were too short and shirts that were off the shoulder....based on the pictures I've found, I was still wearing baseball-jersey-type rainbow shirts! I wore thick dorky glasses and a headgear at night. I didn't beg for a phone, iPod touch, or new e-books. I was fascinated by our new VCR and the sound of our dot matrix printer.
That's what was on the outside of me, but if I dig deep, I can excavate the inside of the 11-year-old me. I was emotional. I felt things deeply and I loved to write. I could cry hard and laugh hard and I was in love with David Lee Roth and remember kissing the TV (yes, it was a giant console TV!) when JUMP was on Friday Night Videos.
Those memories make me smile and provide so much comfort as I worry about what I perceive as an obsession in our house with boy band, One Direction! I roll my eyes each time she squeals when their songs come on the radio, but I must have done the same thing, and in retrospect, One Direction looks pretty clean cut compared to the rockers of Van Halen!
As I reach back to reconnect with the 11-year-old me, I'm left wondering if I even would have been friends with my daughter. My first thought was, no way, I was way too nerdy and unattractive compared to the beauty that I find my daughter to be; too awkward and unsure of myself to befriend my kiddo. Then comes the best part of the whole trip down memory lane....the lanes start to merge.
As a mom, I view my daughter as beautiful and confident. Tech savvy and brilliant, a gifted writer and great athlete, but she doesn't see those things in herself. She views herself much the same as I view my 11-year-old self. Shaky and nervous, self-conscious and unsure, scared and excited all at the same time. Trying to sort out complicated feelings and questions about boys, her body and friendships.
The lightening moment hits me when I realize how perfectly my daughter and I have been matched. I heard early on in my parenting walk that we are each perfectly matched with our kids by God for all that they need from us and all that we need from them. I have no doubt that our lanes have merged for His glory.
Have you reflected on your 11-year-old self lately? Would that kiddo be proud of who you have become? Would she or he roll their eyes at you or would they come to you as a confidante who they believed cared about them? Who is God merging your past and present with today? Buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride.


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Christmas is a time when people gain weight and, sadly, many Jamaicans still associate obesity with good health and sex appeal.
However, it has been very well established that obesity puts the individual at an increased risk of a long list of diseases.
Authorities now consider obesity to have replaced cigarette smoking as the commonest preventable cause of death.
Many also associate being fat with being sexy. Little publicity has been given to the fact that obesity can also interfere with your sex life. Researchers at Duke University's Diet and Fitness Center in the United States reported that in many areas of their sex lives, the obese report 25 times more problems than people of normal weight.
Both men and women complained of lack of sexual desire and enjoyment, along with poor performance. In fact, many fat people reported avoiding sex completely.
But let me provide some consolation to our ladies - the location of your excess fat is important. The fat around the hips and buttocks is not considered hazardous to your health. Truncal or abdominal obesity creates most problems. It is often called apple-shaped obesity in distinction to pear-shaped. It is that 'fat around our waist that will shorten your life in a haste'.
Research shows that a waist measurement of over 39 inches in men, and more than 34 inches in women, will increase your risk of these problems by a whopping 500 per cent.
Let's look at some reasons why obesity may compromise your sex life:
Health problems:
The obese are at increased risk of many diseases and, in general, the poorer your health, the worse your sex life. This is especially true for illnesses involving the heart and circulation, as good blood flow is a major requirement for good sex. (Viagra improves erections by chemically increasing blood flow).
Poor circulation
Even when you have not been formally diagnosed with heart disease, hypertension, diabetes or abnormal blood lipids, if you are obese, it is highly probable that your circulation is already compromised.
In addition to poor blood flow, diabetics also suffer from damage to nerve endings and a decreased responsiveness to sexual stimulation. Sadly, the obesity epidemic has brought with it the diabesity epidemic.
Also, many of the drugs used to treat these diseases further impair sexual function.
Fitness problems:
The sexual act involves increased physical activity. Low energy levels, shortness of breath, muscle cramps, dizziness and fatigue, during and after intercourse, are all signs of the lack of fitness that are characteristic of many obese individuals. Because fat cells promote inflammation, generalised aches and pains, stiffness and inflammation is more pronounced in the obese. Gross obesity will sometimes create major problems for partners to find a workable position for sexual activity.
Hormonal imbalance:
Our libido or sexual interest is greatly influenced by our sex hormones - testosterone, oestrogen and progesterone, to name the commonest ones.
Obesity promotes hormonal imbalance in both men and women. The fat cells around the waist are not just accumulations of fat, they produce hormones, particularly the primary female hormone oestrogen.
This creates a situation where an obese man may have very high levels of female hormones and low levels of the male hormone testosterone. This is partly because the fat cells in the belly are rich in an enzyme called aromatase that converts testosterone to oestrogen.
To make things worse, many chemicals in our diet and environment behave like oestrogen. These chemicals are fat soluble and accumulate in the fatty tissues in the body. All this leads to a situation where fat men are hormonally more like females, resulting in a decreased sex drive and weak erections.
Other issues
Fat women may have other kinds of hormonal problems leading to menstrual disorders, infertility, ovarian cysts, excess facial and body hair, acne and painful sex.
Smaller penis:
As fat accumulates on the lower abdomen in men, the apparent size of the penis changes.
"A large prepubic fat pad makes the penile shaft look shorter," said Dr Ira Sharlip, professor of urology at the University of California, San Francisco.
In some cases, abdominal fat all but buries the penis," states Dr Ronald Tamler of the Men's Health Program in New York.
This should be a powerful motivation for overweight men as they can appear to gain up to an inch in the size of their penis simply by losing weight.
Poor self image:
Research show that obese individuals are more likely to suffer from low self-esteem and poor self-worth. This kind of emotional disability does not foster good sex. Although many men find big women attractive and consider curves and love handles appealing, it is more common for partners of obese people to find them less sexually attractive because of weight gain. They often deny or suppress these feelings to prevent hurt and avoid confrontation.
In reality, however, this denial blocks communication, and only harms the relationship. Partners of obese individuals have a responsibility to help address the issue, if for no other reason than the many health dangers that obesity causes.
I suggest a simple, safe, doctor-recommended, nutritional approach, cellular nutrition to both lose and manage your weight. It comes with a personal weight-loss coach and is available all over the island and the world.
Warmest seasons greetings to all readers.
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