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(CNN) -- Park rangers can wait years to see a weather event like the one that occurred last week at Grand Canyon National Park.
CNN Meteorologist Brandon Miller said cold fog trapped in the canyon by a "lid" of warm air produced what's known as an inversion. The result looks something like a river of clouds flowing through the canyon, obscuring views of the canyon's depths.
While inversions themselves are not rare, Miller said what made this event unique was the sunny skies that accentuated the layers of air. Normally, he said, inversions lead to a "mucky view" such as one might see when driving through heavy fog.
"Snow had fallen in the area beforehand and was beginning to melt," said CNN Meteorologist Chad Meyers. "The melting snow created a cold layer near the surface. Think of opening your freezer and watching the cold air 'fog' falling to the floor. This cold air (because it is heavier than warm air) sunk into the canyon and created the fog."
Over Thanksgiving weekend, park officials say two inversions occurred. One on Friday, the second on Sunday.
The inversion lasts until air temperatures are warm enough to allow the fog to dissipate, Miller said.
Officials at the park posted some stunning photos to Facebook and Instagram of the weather events, which received thousands of views and comments.
"I was there!" posted Tim Zeko on the Facebook page. "First trip to the Canyon. Unbelievable."
What is the most beautiful weather event you've witnessed? To see more of the photos, visit the Grand Canyon National Park Facebook page.

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BEF Germany
Baltic Environmental Forum Deutschland e. V. was founded in 2003 as an incorporated non-profit association in Hamburg and is formally an organisational member of the CO. Currently BEF Germany has two full-time employees which are both committed to the here applied project. Within the projects carried out by BEF Group it is the role of BEF Germany to establish contacts to key experts in Germany in order to transfer their knowledge to the Baltic States and to take over co-ordination and project management functions. The fields of expertise at BEF Germany are energy and transportation issues. Methodologically, BEF Germany has been in charge of designing and co-ordinating various surveys. Consequently, the orginsation will take over the lead for WP6 on public communication and awareness raising and will perform the assessment of training needs within the work package on capacity building. Beyond that, BEF Germany will be the country co-ordinator for the German partners of this consortium.
EUZ, Germany
The Energie und Umweltzentrum am Deister e. V. (e.u.[z.]) is one of the leading organisations in Germany dealing with the issues of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources for and in buildings. It was founded in 1981 and since then has been expanding continuously. The main activities are training of craftsmen, civil servants, real estate owners and school education on various topics connected with energy efficiency, among which are: air tightness, blower door measurements, key specifics for building low energy and passive houses, ventilation. The e.u.[z.] also offers trainings, seminars, and workshops on retrofitting and construction physics, and courses for facility managers and janitors of residential apartment buildings and public buildings.
There is a training and exhibition centre on the grounds of the organization, near Hannover where different construction methods can be demonstrated and practical exercises can be performed by the participants of trainings. Both the main building and a guest house of the organization have also been retrofitted for demonstration purposes. For more than 15 years, the e.u.[z.] has been carrying out the annual "BlowerDoorSymposium" and 2006 was the year when the event took place on the European scale. The organisation has also performed quality assurance for all passive houses built in the district of Kronsberg for Expo 2000 in Hanover.
Auraplan, Germany
Independent architects' office "Auraplan" was established in Hamburg in 2004 by three colleagues, who are focussing their work on energy efficient modernisation and retrofitting of existing building stock and construction of passive houses. Another field of activity concerns the issues of energy sound planning of real estate and residential areas, particularly aiming to establish such areas with car-free zones. The staff at "Auraplan" acts in cooperation with other colleagues in Germany, are well-experienced in organising various public events in the frame of planning residential areas and have expertise in passing on knowledge in seminars and workshops.
Münster, Germany
The City of Münster, located in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, is represented here by staff from its Department for Green Spaces and Environmental Protection (Amt für Grünflächen und Umweltschutz). Throughout the last years Münster has been the most outstanding example in Germany of putting measures for energy efficiency into practice. The department with its over 200 employees is in charge of preservation and care of green spaces in the city and all activities launched by it. The city has long-years experience in energy efficiency raising as fighting climate change is a priority issue in the city. In the past decade Münster has been awarded many times. In 2006 the city was declared the Federal German capital of climate protection (received earlier in 1997). Other awards were the Climate Star of the Climate Alliance (Klimabündnis e. V.) in 2004, European Energy Award Gold (2005) etc. Münster's experience stretches from having a legal framework regulating construction on its territory towards energy saving to experience in organizing public information campaigns. It has a profound experience in energy sound urban planning and has implemented many measures which can be demonstrated and thus may provide many best and good practice examples. The department in charge also maintains a large network of contacts of different target groups addressed in the proposed project, which may be very valuable during the project course.
Frankfurt, Germany
The city of Frankfurt with its over 650,000 inhabitants is one of the front runners in energy efficiency in Germany. In 2005 it was awarded with the Climate Star of the Climate Alliance, especially for the promotion of CHP and in 2006 it was ranked as the 6th Federal German capital of climate protection.
Frankfurt is well integrated into the European-wide network of Energie cités and is a part of the network of cities of the Climate Alliance. It maintains a wide range of contacts among local, regional and national authorities and has many contacts with architects and craftsmen. City municipality is experienced in organization of different campaigns and activities on reduction of CO2 emission of its building stock by 25 per cent on the basis of 1990. Frankfurt has been active in developing its concepts for intelligent energy supplies and energy sound urban planning and has experience in large-scale projects also in European scale. Furthermore, the office is well experienced in carrying out information campaigns for citizens.
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Fatal Occupational Injuries in the United States, 1995-1999:
A Chartbook
|Contents of Report
|Cover (PDF 316K)
|Table of Contents (PDF 42K)
|Title Page (PDF 70K)
|Commissioner's Letter
|Acknowledgments (PDF 70K)
|Introduction (PDF 321K)
|National Profiles
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|Appendix III (PDF 92K)
|Entire Report (PDF 2,801K)
Fatal Occupational Injuries in the United States, 1995-1999: A Chartbook (BLS Report 965) is presented on this website in Adobe PDF format. See the Contents of Report box at left to access the various sections of the report. The entire report (PDF 2,801K) is also available in a single PDF file.
The excerpt from the introduction below describes the structure of the chartbook. You can also find important information below about accessibility, as well as tips for printing chartbook PDF files.
A contacts page is provided in HTML format for your convenience. The page lists State and National contacts for Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data.
Order a free copy. Single copies of the print version of Fatal Occupational Injuries in the United States, 1995-1999: A Chartbook are available. To obtain a copy, send email to email@example.com with your mailing address included in your request; mail a request to the Office of Publications and Special Studies, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C., 20212; or call 202-691-5200.
Introduction (Excerpt)
The Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, the Nations primary source of data on fatal work injuries, has begun its second decade of operation. The program, which is conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in partnership with State agencies, provides valuable information to make workplaces safer for all workers. This chartbook presents an overview of fatal work injury data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries program for the 5 years from 1995 through 1999. The chartbook presents these data in an easily accessible formatmore charts and graphs than text or analysisthat will be useful to anyone interested in learning more about fatal occupational injuries, whether that person is an experienced researcher or an interested observer. It illuminates the details of these fatal injuries from a variety of perspectives.
Organization of the Chartbook
The chartbook is divided into three sections; each begins with a short overview of the data which is followed by more specific data presentations. The National Profiles focus on specific types of fatal work injuries, sources of fatal injuries, and specific groups of workers. These topics were selected because they have proven to be of ongoing interest to data users. The Industry Profiles present data for each major industry division, including the number and rate of fatal work injuries in that division as well as background on the demographic characteristics of the fatally injured workers and the fatal incidents.
The State Profiles section focuses on fatal work injury data for individual States, plus the District of Columbia and New York City. Each profile in this section includes data on the number and rate of fatal incidents, as well as charts and tables showing the types of events, occupations, and industries associated with fatal work injuries in a particular State or location. Summaries of the demographic characteristics of the fatally injured workers also are presented in each State profile.
The appendixes provide contact information for Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries staff in the BLS office in Washington, DC, as well as for the BLS Regional Information Offices and the State agencies. The appendixes also contain technical information regarding the methodology of the fatality census program.
Read Entire Introduction (PDF 321K)
Data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries are used for injury surveillance, safety research, safety promotion, safety training, regulations assessments, and many other safety-related issues. The key to a successful statistical program is to provide the data to people who can make a difference. Accomplishing that requires easily accessible information, which the fatality census strives to produce. Aggregated data and reports from the fatality census can be obtained via the Internet, e-mail, facsimile, telephone, annual publications, and research/journal articles. (See appendix III (PDF 92K) for contact information.)
Printing Tips
PDF files on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website are best viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher. The chartbook PDF files print best if the following settings are used in Acrobat 5.0: On the Print screen, under Copies and Adjustments, check the box next to "Auto-rotate and center pages" and leave the two boxes just above that one unchecked. (For other versions of Adobe Acrobat, the print options may be presented somewhat differently.)
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EntrepreneurshipMonopoly and Competition
Natural constraints on firm size are numerous, and in a truly free market, large firms would be constantly prone to being broken up and put out of business by competition. And all to often, huge firms become more long-lived due to government intervention.
When the topic involves poverty, bank failures, unemployment or inequality, the advocates of fashionable policy implore us to take immediate action, almost regardless of the costs down the line. Enter climate change and this seemingly changes everything.
Hurricane Michael brought destruction that the Florida panhandle has never seen before, but it failed to break the community it impacted.
Big GovernmentGlobal EconomySocialism
While the outrage over Maduro's dinner with "Salt Bae" is well deserved, it's just a taste of how socialism actually operates in the real world.
There's a whole lot of buzz about the sharing economy. Many seem to think it is something new, with some calling for a 'new economics' to explain it while others deride the 'gig economy' as a higher level of exploitation, inequality, and poverty. Neither is a good analysis.
Capital and Interest TheoryPolitical Theory
Critics of capitalism are often confused by the difference between political and economic power.
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Europe must identify ways to limit their dependence on the US financial system – or else indeed be reduced to de facto-vassal status to DC.
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As we start the session and I switch on the television Sergio Perez bangs into the wall and loses his rear suspension and a rear tyre.
The 1st session is a bit interesting, the top 3 drivers are Hulkenberg, Koayashi and Grosjean followed by world champion Sebastien Vettel. The only issue being that the top3 have already used their super soft compound tyres while the biggies managed to qualify using just soft compound tyres so that they can get better times in their subsequent runs. Perez, Karthikyean, Pique, Delarosa, Heikki Kovalainen and Timo Glock are among those relegated.
In Q2, Nico Rosberg seems to be doing pretty well, Rosberg was also the fastest guy in the morning practice session. He leads from Webber, Hamilton, Alonso and Schumacher, all of them in .200th of a second. Infact, top 11 drivers in Q2 are within 1 seond of each other. Pastor Maldonado and Michael Schumacher have to contend with a 10 place and 5 place penalty respectively. And Felipe Massa just goes P1, apparently Ferrari have asked him to perform or perish. As the Q2 session ends Jenson Button is unable to enter the top 10 and the previous Monaco Grand Prix winner will have to start from P13.
Q3, was whoa ! Straight to the result, Michael Schumacher gets pole position. He is ecstatic and so are we, he is cheering and flashing the victory sign. Its fate's cruel turn that he has a 5 place penalty to contend with.
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An intelligence bulletin issued to law enforcement includes pictures of a mangled pressure cooker and a torn black bag that the FBI says were part of a bomb that exploded during the Boston Marathon.
The bulletin was obtained by NBC News and The Associated Press.
The FBI says it has evidence that indicates one of the bombs that exploded in the Boston Marathon was contained in a pressure cooker with nails and ball bearings, and it was hidden in a backpack.
The FBI says the other explosive was in a metal container, but there wasn't enough evidence to indicate that it was a pressure cooker.
It was not known what was used to set off the two explosives that killed three people Monday and injured more than 170 others.
Many other questions were left unanswered late Tuesday, too, NBC News reported — among them questions of whether a single individual were responsible for planting the bombs, what motivated the attack, why nobody had claimed credit and when the bombs were placed.
The photograph above shows what the FBI says is a torn black bag it believes contained one of the bombs detonated at the Boston Marathon on Monday.


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Hello. I was thinking of becoming a video game programmer. And i was wondering if it would be a wiser choice to get a BA in computer engineering instead of a BA in Game and simulation programming. I looked at the classes of the Game and simulation programming and I didnt see any C++ programming classes. I only saw C#.net programming classes. Is that language highly used in games? There is alot of hands on experience in the program and there are two big game projects along the way of the degree where you create a game.
But if i go with the computer engineering degree instead will i still have the kind of knowledge to program video games? I honestly have no idea on how the porcess of programming/making a video game works. What kind of jobs can i get with a computer engineer degree at video game companies? Hopefully by getting input from you guys it will make it easier for me to decide what to do. Oh and I have heard of C, and C++ but i have never heard of C#. can someone also explain to me what language C# is? is it another upgraded version of C?


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My house just keeps getting worse. Summer is so chaotic . We just want to be OUT, but there's still dishes and laundry piling up and toys always underfoot and half-finished colouring pages and used sleeping bags and half-empty bottles of sunscreen and that dead fly-covered vole Crook somehow caught despite being leashed in the backyard. Plus the actual work work that needs to be done. I'm running from one urgent must-do to another and never catching up.
I don't mean to complain, but the truth is that the havoc wears on all of our nerves.
Today I have a rare break from the urgency — no gig coming right up that I need to write charts for, no emergency underwear situations, so I will wash a few dishes, haul out a few camping supplies to the shed… and get ready for my 3-day retreat.
I can't remember if I've ever spent more than a few hours completely alone. Sunday, I'm packing up the car with food, some paper and pens, and a good book or two and I'm heading to a friend's cabin for two nights all to myself. I'm not sure what it will be like. I can't possibly imagine getting bored, but will I get lonely? I think I'll be okay.
I envision some time just sitting in the woods (weather permitting) or by the lake, some serious reading time, maybe time to write down some thoughts, or even new song lyrics. I intend to do some meditation. I might even do some work… some enjoyable work that I can complete from start to finish without outside interruption.
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A divided Senate voted to ease the confirmation process for most presidential nominees, a step that limits the ability of Republicans to block Obama's choices for executive-branch and most judicial posts. Here, we explain the so-called nuclear option. (Updated at 1 p.m.)
What is the nuclear option?
The "nuclear option" refers to a move by the majority party in Senate — in this case the Democrats — to change the Senate rules to allow most executive branch and judicial nominations to be approved with a simple majority – 51 votes — rather than the 60 votes now required. Under longstanding rules, the minority party has been able to block a nomination with just 41 votes, commonly called a filibuster.
Why is it called that?
"Nuclear option" typically refers to an option so drastic it must only be used as a last resort. Former Sen. Trent Lott (R., Miss.) was the first to use it in this context, and the name has stuck for several reasons. First, changing the Senate rules would both fly in the face of longstanding precedent and likely inflame partisan tensions in the body. Also, the Democrats know that when the majority party becomes the minority party, as inevitably happens, that party would be stripped of most of its leverage, thanks to its own rule change.
Why is this an issue now?
After a standoff earlier this year in which the threat of the nuclear option was raised, the Republicans in the Senate have recently blocked three nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and an executive branch nominee, Rep. Mel Watt (D., N.C.), who was nominated to head the regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. All of the nominees would likely be confirmed at the 51-vote majority threshold as Democrats currently control the Senate 54-46, including two left-leaning independents who caucus with the Democrats.
What would be the broader impact of the rule change?
The change would curb the minority party's main source of leverage in the Senate's frequent battles over confirming the president's nominees to executive and most judicial posts. Republicans, now in the minority, have often required a 60-vote threshold to consider nominees. The change under consideration would allow a confirmation to proceed with just 51 votes, which the Democrats can reach without any Republican votes.
Are there any exceptions to the proposed change?
Yes, the Democrats' rule change allow the minority party to demand 60 votes to advance Supreme Court nominations. But Republicans warn that once the rules start changing, there is no guarantee that the carve-out for the Supreme Court will hold up. Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday that Democrats cannot expect to change the rules for lower court nominees and still preserve the right to filibuster a Republican nominee to the Supreme Court if the GOP wins the presidency and Senate in 2016.
Have senators threatened to use the nuclear option in the past?
The Senate has a long history of threatening this option. In 1841, frustrated by a Democratic minority's opposition to his bank bill, Kentucky Sen. Henry Clay threatened to invoke it. In the 1990s, 19 Democrats — including former Sen. Edward Kennedy — tried to eliminate the filibuster by invoking the nuclear option. In 2005, Republican senators threatened to same in the face of Democratic opposition to former President George W. Bush's judicial nominations. In 2008, Mr. Reid himself swore that as long as he was leader, he would never turn to the nuclear option, saying it would be a "black chapter in the history of the Senate."
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Firearm season yields more deer in parts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
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ESCANABA, Mich. (AP) — An increase in whitetail deer populations may be behind the higher number of animals bagged by hunters in at least one part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
About 875 deer have been recorded at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources station in Escanaba, the Daily Press reported (http://bit.ly/VenldG) Saturday.
It's the highest number during firearm season at the station since 1,100 deer were checked a dozen years ago. Firearm season ended Friday.
The Escanaba station is about 60 miles southeast of Marquette. It has averaged about 715 deer checked over the past 10 years, said Vern Richardson, a state wildlife technician.
"We're well over our 10 year average," Richardson said. "We've had a number of light winters in a row so we haven't had as many deer die off due to winter related causes."
Survival rates for fawns are higher during milder winters as does are better able to find food.
Fat deposits of deer checked at the Escanaba station also are higher than in recent years. "It ... means that the deer are healthy," Richardson said.
Limits were placed this season on hunters across much of the southern part of the Lower Peninsula because of epizootic hemorrhagic disease, which is spread to deer by insects. Thousands of Michigan deer are believed to have died from the disease, which is not a threat to humans.
Michigan's whitetail population is estimated at more than 1 million. About 640,000 hunters bought one or more Michigan deer licenses by the firearm season's Nov. 15 opening day, according to the DNR.
Muzzle loading season for deer in the Upper Peninsula begins Friday and runs through Dec. 16.
Information from: Daily Press, http://www.dailypress.net
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1) Always use a Research Calendar so that you stay focused and so you don't duplicate your efforts which wastes time.
2) Write everything you know about the person down in a list or table and analyze what you already have. See Analyzing the Data for more information. Many times you have the answer to your dilemma right in front of you. If you put it in a slightly different format you will start seeing things you didn't notice before.
3) Set your work aside for a time, maybe a week, a month, or a couple of months. You have plenty of other lines you can explore in the meantime. When you pick up your brick wall again, you will look at it with fresh eyes and you might see something you missed before.
4) Have another researcher look at all of your data and see what they think. They might pick up on something or have a suggestion for you. I like to ask someone who has absolutely no knowledge of this particular family at all so that they can be completely objective.
5) Take the time to really learn about the history of the geographical location of your brick wall. Make a timeline for the county, state and country. Once you put together these timelines, keep them in your Research Binder so that you use them again and again. You can get a lot of great info from the FamilySearch Wiki. Here is a simple State of Mississippi Timeline. Most counties have published history books that are usually fairly small and inexpensive. Understanding what was going on at the time will help you understand what your person might have been doing. Another helpful thing to know is some of the general laws of that location at that time. Something as simple as knowing if a person could get married at age 18 vs. age 21 without consent can help you. Learning the general topography helps too. Knowing where rivers were is very helpful because people tended to stay close to water and travel following water. Knowing where bad terrain (mountains, swamp) was can help show you what routes someone might have taken when moving which may lead you to a certain county over another.
6) Speaking of migration, make sure you have maps of the known migration routes. If your ancestor was last known to have been in Charleston, SC, you can follow known migration routes from that starting point to figure out where your ancestor might have gone. These go in your Research Binder too.
7) Be VERY familiar with county and state boundary changes. Ani-Map is very helpful for this. You can plot out your communities and watch the boundary changes over time. This may lead you to counties you hadn't considered before. Also remember that when a new county is formed, some of the parent county records might transfer. For example, Lamar County, Mississippi was formed from the 2nd District of Marion County in 1904. All of the 2nd District's marriage records transferred and are held in the Lamar County courthouse. If you have someone that you think was married in Marion County in the 1800s, you might want to check Lamar County as well even though the marriage took place long before Lamar was formed.
8) Find out exactly what resources are available for your locality. You can check Printed Sources, Redbook, The Handybook for Genealogists, Family History Library's Card Catalog, FamilySearch Wiki, Ancestry's Card Catalog etc. Record all of this information in your Research Binder. Readily knowing what records are available will make it easier to write up a competent research plan saving you a lot of time.
9) Post queries on locality and surname message boards, locality and surname mailing lists and with the local genealogical society where your mystery person lived. Someone out there might have the little tidbit of info you need to break through your wall. This shotgun approach is often overlooked as a research technique.
- Rootsweb Surname and Locality Mailing Lists
- Rootsweb Surname and Locality Message Boards [these are identical to the Ancestry.com Surname and Locality Message Boards. If you post on one it appears on both]
- Genealogy.com's Surname and Locality Message Boards
10) Spread your net. Sometimes the best way to find out more about a person is to investigate their collateral family members and neighbors. Don't forget the people that witnessed documents for your person of interest. People tended to travel with other families from place to place so if you can follow a collateral family back in time, you might figure out where your person came from. If you have a metes and bounds land description, the neighbors will be listed. I have a blog post on Metes and Bounds if you would like more info about that (evil! evil! evil!). This type of research technique is called collateral research or cluster genealogy. You can research everyone in a specific geographical area and/or everyone with the same surname in a particular area. Both techniques can produce results. There will be a blog post about cluster genealogy sometime in the near future.
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We have plenty of yardsticks by which to measure our success and plenty of failures to drag us down, but what I am learning as a parent, and as someone dancing with being an adult for a couple decades, is that the messiness of life perpetuates even while we are "getting it right." It's important to step back a little, take an objective look at our progress, and give ourselves some credit. Here are some simple items to check on the list and know whether you are getting life right.
1. Things are better than they were. Maybe things aren't perfect, but how were they two years ago? If you see any improvement, then you know you are getting it right and making the right choices. They might not be the choices that someone else would make but, lucky for you, someone else isn't in charge of your life. Your values and what is important to you dictate how you make decisions, so as long as things are getting better then you are on the right course!
2. You, your spouse, and your children are healthy and safe. If everyone in your household is physically safe from harm, well fed, nourished and healthy, then you are getting it right. If you are dealing with disease of any kind, or any health challenges, these don't indicate you are getting it wrong. How you are dealing with those issues and whether you are working towards wellness for those that might be struggling change that. As long as you are taking measures to address it, coping with the circumstances, and putting health and safety first, then you are getting it right.
3. Your dreams are being fulfilled, even if just part-time or in microscopic increments. There is no timeline for when something has to be fulfilled. Taking simple steps, everyday, toward fulfilling the dreams you have in your heart and your gut are all that are needed. Prioritizing your dreams out of the picture won't work. Putting them on the back burner is okay as long as you are willing to allow that dream to be given a little more priority at an appropriate time (such as when 1 and 2 are happening).
4. You no longer doubt your own worth or your children's worth. If you have begun to recognize your own value beyond income, material indication, and keeping up with the Jones's then you are definitely getting it right. Recognizing your own worth is imperative to making progress on the dreams you might have for yourself and your children. Clothes, toys, cars, electronic devices, are not indicators of success. They might be indicators of debt, or indicators of values, even indicators of insecurity, but in no way are they indicators of worth. Pressuring children to live up to others' standards don't improve their own sense of who they are. When you are allowing yourself, your partner, and your children to be amazingly valuable just as they are, then you know you are getting it right.
5. You are able to help others that need help, even if it's not monetary. Donating money is tricky if you don't have a lot to share. But it's not the only way. Giving and sharing are really things that allow us to be present in the gratitude we have for our own lives and in recognizing how much more we have than so many others on the planet. Even if it's just a conversation, or a donation of old clothes, giving to others is an important part of our human experience. Selfishly, it is a ritual of proving to ourselves that we have more than enough. Compassionately, it is an opportunity to help others make progress on their path, a path that might have started out much further behind than yours has been.
Bonus: #6
6. When you take time for yourself, you are renewed and re-committed to the path you are on.
If, after taking time to meditate, get a massage, take a walk, or just read a book, you find yourself with renewed energy for the path you are walking, then you know you are getting it right. And you also know how important that time for yourself is for making progress on that path. So take more time, be more of an example to yourself of how good it feels to be renewed, and know that you truly are "GETTING IT RIGHT!"
A thousand waves of blessings to you!
~ Jessica


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We've tried to make MySoti.com as easy as possible to use, but when you're dealing with technology that looks easy it usually means that there is a load of clever stuff hidden behind the scenes.
Below we've tried to compile as comprehensive a list of questions about creating your own products (T-shirts, Canvas prints etc) and their answers as possible, and we add to it all the time.
We hope you enjoy using MySoti as much as we enjoy working on it!
Well, that's entirely your call. MySoti has a basic, MySoti price for each product that we sell but after that it's entirely up to you how much mark-up you want to add.
So, for example - Say if the MySoti price for a shirt is $10.00 and you have a t-shirt design that you think someone will pay $100 for then you'd get $90 (your mark-up price) for that sale! Simple huh?
Now that's an easy one. YOU DO!
Unlike most 'design competition' companies on the Internet these days we don't take ownership over your designs at all - so you're free to do whatever you want with them at any time.
All we do is agree to produce this artwork on your behalf (unless we've spoken to you separately about possible use of your image in marketing or wholesale promotion/production etc).
Of course it is. All of our shirts are lovingly hand-printed using a machine - (feel free to wrestle with the existentialist nature of this for a second) so each order is printed to errm... order.
Where there may be some trouble however is when we don't have your particular colour or size of shirt in stock; ordinarily this adds a couple of days onto the final delivery of your order - but if there is any other problem at all please rest assured that we'll contact you as soon as we become aware of it.
If we were pre-cognitive we'd get in touch even sooner - and if you're pre-cognitive please let us know of the delay so that we can inform you!
You can actually find that out by creating a product and seeing what the price of it is before you add your mark-up, but to make things a little easier we've listed the core US Dollar* prices below:
* We do sell in UK Pounds and Euros as well, but for simplicity we haven't listed them here (VAT and various other changes in currency make it a long-winded explanation).
The important thing to remember is that if you sell a shirt or poster etc in UK Pounds but you're home currency is in US Dollars then you will still earn your mark-up percentage (hope that makes sense).
It's also worth noting that these prices are subject to alteration - they're entirely based on fluctuation from suppliers and stuff so we do alter them occassionaly.
We're uncomplicated guys and gals, so we like to make things really simple. We don't want to confuse you with maths and we don't want you to be reaching for an abacus.
So we've gone the crazy - some say foolish - route of NOT including the delivery costs in the price of our garments.
Why? We hear you ask. Well, it's to make things easier for all of us - One price for the product and then another, set price for delivery and shipping means that we don't have to spend hours juggling within some crazy financial software package working out how best to hide the real cost of our delivery costs from you.
And believe us - this is how a LOT of people manage to get away with such seemingly low costs.
And it means that you always know just what you're getting from your kindly investment in our products.
At MySoti we use a fairly new (well, state-of-the-art) printing process called Direct To Garment (DTG) printing. This allows us to be able to offer every design that our members upload for sale - something that Screen Printing couldn't let us manage!
It's worth noting that this is not Vinyl or transfer printing like some other, larger websites use - we think the quality of our printing is directly comparable to Screen Printing.
Absolutely YES! - a DTG printer can produce over 16 million colors. We hope that's enough for you?
We can print with graphics up to 2880 dpi. And because we offer vector artwork for ALL of our shirts - throughout our entire process - you can be sure of the finest quality print!
If you upload a design using our shirt template (available on the Create a Product page) you'll be sure of great resolution every time!
Yes. We can definitely handle lovely, smooth gradients, halftones, etc.
We can print on ANY color garment. Unlike older DTG technology, we can also print white on dark garments. We like to call this The Future! Seriously, we print on dark shirts and the quality is incredible. Really.
We honestly think you'll find our quality incredible.
Garments printed using DTG technology have excellent washability because the ink actually penetrates into the fabric. Unlike silk screen and heat transfers, your image will not crack or peel off after a few washes.
In fact, as I write this, I'm wearing a shirt sample that was well over a year ago - when we started building Bountee (the site that gave birth to MySoti) - and it looks pretty much as good now as it did then (and I wash this one at least once a week!)
We want you to have our clothing on your back as soon as possible. But realistically, here is a list of how long it will probably take to get your stuff, depending on where you live on this glorious planet of ours:
Please be aware though, that this is only a guide - and that sometimes the postal services across this globe of ours do need time to collect their rubber bands. So we would recommend waiting at least 28 days before contacting us.
We deliver to most places in the world. However, you'll find an exhaustive list on our basket page. And we have to warn you that your country may charge you some sort of import duty on receipt of your clothing.
That's nothing to do with us I'm afraid - believe us we've checked - our illustrious custom and excise people simply won't allow us to pay the duty for you!
We sincerely believe that the quality of our canvas printing is the best around - our fine-art, Giclee printing process is simply incomparable to other solvent-ink based options that are available.
As we make all of our frames by hand, and print all of our stuff to order, we aim to get all orders turned around within 14 days.
Please be aware though, that this is only a guide - and that sometimes the postal services across this globe of ours do need time to collect their rubber bands. So we would recommend waiting at least 28 days before contacting us.
We only supply our canvas artwork on heavy-duty, hand made wooden frames. All frames are bespoke made using the best raw materials at our print house. We then cut and shape the wood to make sure that each frame is exactly correct for the print in question. We don't offer cheaper, foam-board options.
We bespoke print all of our posters on a 300gsm, soft textured, quality, fine-art paper. This offers a thick, luxurious base for your artwork and we are sure that you wont be disappointed.
MySoti is a place where designers can upload original artwork and turn it into awesome, real-life products for sale that we print and ship out to customers worldwide!


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Find the Healing in Humor
Cancer is no laughing matter, but as Pam Lacko discovered, humor can be healing. Here's how she kept her spirits up during treatment.
Pam Lacko considered herself lucky: After a hysterectomy and six months of chemotherapy, she survived ovarian cancer. Then she learned she carried a gene that put her at high risk for breast cancer. First, she cried. Then she did what she does best: She laughed.
Pam, 52, a computer consultant, drum teacher and mother of two in Simsbury, CT, decided to break the news via a blog she had started to keep loved ones up to date about her condition. After learning her risk for developing breast cancer was 85%, she decided to have a preventive mastectomy. She wrote an entry entitled, "I Have to Get Something Off My Chest." Then she launched a contest called "Guess How Much My Boobs Weigh?" She enlisted her surgeon's help by asking if she would weigh the breasts once she removed them. The surgeon played along, and more than 100 of Pam's blog followers entered the contest. Pam awarded the winner a gift certificate to Victoria's Secret.
Making light of her cancer battle helped Pam cope. "Medication and treatment heal the body, but humor heals the mind," she says. Pam turned her blog into a book called Laughing in the Face of Cancer (Antrim House Books), in which she describes how she used humor to get through her illness and treatment. Here are some of her strategies—and how you can learn to laugh in the face of cancer, too:
Look for humor in your journey and share it with others.
Instead of lamenting the loss of her breasts, Pam joked about getting "perky boobs" for her birthday, compliments of breast reconstruction surgery. "I was pleased that people were laughing along with me rather than feeling sorry for me," she says.
Joke with doctors and nurses.
During an imaging test, when an MRI tech reached up her leg for the tube connected to her port so that he could inject some contrast dye, Pam quipped, "I barely know you."
Developing a relationship with the medical staff paid off for Pam. During her treatment, she called an "emergency meeting" with the nurses to enlist their help in persuading her doctor to release her from the hospital in time to play in the golf championships at her local club. Pam's playful relationship with the nurses was evident on her final day of treatment, when they dressed her up in medical garb, sang her a congratulatory song and posed with her for photos.
Find fun in the frightful.
Pam quelled her anxiety about losing her hair by gathering together a few close friends for a playful wig-shopping expedition before the hair loss began. She and her friends tried on pink and purple wigs, sampled bouffant styles and donned pin-straight ponytails. In the end, Pam chose the "Dixie Pixie," which resembled her usual short blond do.
To calm her nerves on the way to her genetic-testing appointment, she and her mother wagered a bet on the outcome. "I thought, why not make a contest of it?" Pam says. "I bet I didn't have the gene, she bet I did. I thought, God, my mother is betting against me? Well, thanks a lot. Little games like this made scary moments much easier to deal with."
Laugh whenever possible.
Every year, Pam organizes a "Women Only, Bad Golf Encouraged" golf tournament to benefit the American Cancer Society. She always delivers a humorous welcome speech. The year she underwent chemo, she whipped off her baseball cap to expose her bald head. "I've been selected as the year's Chia Pet holiday season promotion," she announced. "It broke the ice," recalls Pam. "It made people realize, She's okay; she got through it."


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Jacobs was Cross Country league champion in 2003, 2004, and 2005...In 2006 she was runner-up, and also placed second in the CIF Section Finals...Was 12th at the State Meet in 2003...In track she was both 1600m and 800m champion in 2004, 2005, and 2006...In 2006 she was CIF Section Champion in the 800m.
Jacobs is majoring in biology with a minor in sports medicine...Aspires to become a chiropractor...Lists her most memorable high school athletic achievement as winning the 800m at CIF finals, where she set a five-second PR and qualified for the State Meet.
Collegiate Career Bests 800m - 2:16.32 (Occidental Invitational, 5/9/2009) 1500m - 4:43.84 (USC Trojan Invitational, 3/21/2009)


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Well, I meant to at least write a New Year's post here in January because 2012 was an amazing year for me. But I didn't do it.
I also meant to write a blog post about Jade turning 7, because she is a truly amazing kid. But I didn't do that either.
But since the last post I wrote over here, I've written seven posts over on my other blog. (Sorry, guys. Not sure how that happened. Lots of them are just really status updates.)
And guess what else? I finished recording my very first album. This project I've been breathing and dreaming forever is actually wrapped up, and the actual honest-to-goodness CDs are being manufactured right now. The album is going to be released in less than a month.
Anyone else feel like squealing with me???
Back in real life, the laundry is overflowing (and I just discovered that the cat's litter box has been tipped over, onto some of that there laundry on the laundry room floor…ugh) and the dirty dishes are propagating at an alarming rate. And my blog reader is into the hundreds of posts I haven't read, too.
But, dammit, life is good right now.
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Store clerk shot by man paying for gas
Clerk treated, released from hospital
A customer caused a mess inside of a Polk County convenience store and then shot the clerk when he chased him outside, deputies said.
At 10:10 p.m. Wednesday, a man walked into the Superway Convenience Store at 2415 Avenue G NW in Winter Haven and told the clerk he wanted $2 worth of gas. He put a handful of coins on the counter.
The clerk and the man "exchanged words" about the coins, deputies said, and the man threw items on the floor and ran outside.
As the clerk gave chase, the man pulled out a handgun and shot him in the shoulder.
The shooter fled on foot and may have gotten into a light-colored, possibly tan, four-door car -- maybe a Chevrolet or Toyota.
He was described as 6 feet tall, muscular, wearing a blue Atlanta Hawks "Pistol Pete" Maravich basketball jersey.
The clerk was treated and released.


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By Christopher Wedding [1] Jan 15, 2014 0 [2]
Downsizing Dilemmas
There are many different scenarios in working as a Supported Employment Manager with adults with autism. The best-case scenario is for everyone on my caseload to be employed with jobs working full time, or even two different part-time jobs working a full day. The worst-case scenario is that no one on my caseload is employed, or to have to pull individuals out of a jobsites that they liked. With my job, both scenarios are something I have to deal with and think about every day.
One situation happened when I was first hired. There were two individuals who had been working at a grocery store for a few years when they were assigned to me. The store loved both of the individuals and the staff that was working with them. One of the individuals stocked the dairy products and the other individual worked outside collecting carts. When a new store opened across the street, the store we partnered with started slowly cutting back the individuals' hours to give other people more hours. The individuals went from working two days per week for six hours to only working four hours for two days, to only working one day per week.
Needless to say, once the new store opened, it hurt our partner's business in a big way. Now the individuals worked on a "call-as-needed" basis, and typically worked only one day per month. These were two individuals used to working all the time. Even though they each held another part-time job, they found themselves with nothing to during half of the work week. We needed to train them for new jobs, while searching for new employment opportunities for them. So I went to the other part-time employer to see if more hours were available. Fortunately, this employer was a well-known gym chain and had new gyms opening up in the area.
Having to pull individuals out of jobs that they enjoyed was very hard. However, if they are only working one day per month, it is often not worth it for them to keep those positions. And it never hurts to ask for more time with a part-time employer because they may need the individuals and not even realize it until the idea is mentioned. The key part of my job is to avoid getting upset when these scenarios come about, because they are going to happen. I just need to "roll with it," and work around it the best I can.


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My Country No More
Season 20 Episode 6 | 55m 40s
Generations of family farming go up in flames as the North Dakota oil rush leaves human memory, culture, and identity scorched in its wake. My Country, No More follows one rural American family's path of resistance through the rise and fall of the boom.
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Roll that spliff phatly, pack some fresh ice into the binger, and set the Volcano to "toastify." It's time for tonight's Stoner Channel. We've collected our best high-times material for the discerning pothead so sit back, relax, and pass that shit on the left, yo.
Tonight's cluster of Grapes comes from reader Jorge
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An ode to the morning ritual...or afternoon for some of us.
Russian Power Station Goes Haywire
This is what happens when you cross the streams. Never. Cross. The. Streams.
Robin Williams - Live At The Met
Robin Williams discusses the pitfalls of alcohol and weed dependency—while probably high on cocaine.
Candlestick Park Is Darker than North Korea Thanks to This Exploding Transformer
See, it's funny because North Korea's dark due to its totalitarian Stalinist dictatorship denying the people basic technologies and humanitarian services that the rest of the world takes for granted and Candlestick Park's dark because the grounds crew crossed the goddamn streams.
Watching the Weeds Grow
From seed to harvest in 15 awe-inspiring minutes.
This Turbine Spun So Freaking Fast It Exploded
Notice how the explodey one is facing the opposite way as the non-blown-to-shit turbines? That's what happens when you cross the streams.
Launch Box Travel Vape Will Put You Into a Personal Cloud
When you can't make it home to the loving embrace of your Volcano, you can at least get some action on the side with the Launch Box travel vaporizer.
The Launch Box is a wooden all-in-one container includes a metal trough to store finely ground herb for vaporization, a tube for extracting the sweet, sweet vapo and a rechargeable AA battery to power the thing. You apparently just jam the battery into a hole in the side of the box, that completes a circuit, heats the metal trough and vaporizes the THC. The process is silent and fast—heating up in about five seconds—and the Box is small enough to fit into your palm (unless you're that guy from the BK commercials), though the stick-a-battery-and-suck method seems a bit janky. Check out the unintentionally high-larious demo video here and pay $120 for the kit here. [Magic Flight - thanks, hyperTEN]
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Aliens in GTA San Andreas
|Part of this article are based on realistic Speculation and might not turn out to be correct.
The UFO myth appeared quite early in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and though it is not so popular at the moment, there still are people looking for it.
It is believed that the myth originated when Area 69 was discovered. The player is only granted "legal" access to Area 69 in one mission, where the player has to find and steal a Jetpack.
However, there is no evidence of any aliens or flying saucers in the game. The only known UFO is the fake one on a pole outside the Lil' Probe Inn. The Inn has started multiple speculations about possible areas where UFOs can be seen. If the player goes down the back behind the counter they will see a small room with a radio transmitter, computer and a map on the wall with 11 dots on it. Four dots are believed to be the pins, as they are located in the 4 corners of the map, where nothing significant is located, while the other seven look like they are marks on the map. The same map is located at Mike Toreno's ranch, which made people believe that he is somehow connected with the aliens. Nothing suspicious has been found regarding the map, it is believed that it is there only for decorative purposes and to create the atmosphere. It could be an included easter egg by Rockstar Games, as it is a possible Beta map, evidenced by the massive differences in land forms. There are some pictures on the walls in the bar itself - some feature locations within San Andreas with a UFO seen in the sky, while others are real-life pictures (e.g. one has got Orthodox church domes on it - suggesting that the picture was taken in the real-life city of Moscow).
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The map in Toreno's Ranch, and the Lil' Probe Inn.
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The Lil' Probe'Inn.
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Area 69.
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A scientist that appears inside Area 69.
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The green goo.
A news segment on the radio station WCTR mentions that residents of Bone County area have reported seeing lights over the desert. According to WCTR, the government blames water supply.
The Truth, the hippy Carl meets later in the game, also speaks about "Them... Who can't control our minds" and "Snake-headed aliens who run oil business". As an oil refinery is located near Area 69, it is believed that there is a higher possibility of spotting the UFO in that vicinity, as opposed to anywhere else in San Andreas.
During the mission Black Project various lines of dialogue can be heard over a P.A. system, once the player has broke into the interior. The only two alien-related messages are; "could the owner of the alien culture in the diagnostics lab please kindly remove it", and "personnel found stealing alien technology will not be invited on the next staff night out".
The only appearance of the aliens is in the mission Green Goo, and inside of the game files. Internal files reveal the name of the TXD is
greengoo.TXD. And the textures are named
alien_glass, and
alien_cont2. Also in the mission "Stoaway" it is belived that the goverment agents are Aliens.
Central Intelligence Agency
During the mission Stowaway the player is instructed to bomb an Andromada plane being used to drop explosives into the middle east. While on board the plane the crew will utter strange phrases whilst attacking the player. Some of the phrases are "you evolved from shrews", "this endangers everything", "carbon based buffoon", "idiotic mammal", "this doesn't concern you", and "the great day will come". These agents may not actually be the CIA, but are suggested to be. They don black suits with black ties, and black sunglasses. Their design is like that of the agents in the Men in Black series. Internal files reveal they are in fact modeled after them. Their model locations are
bmymib and wmomib in gta3.img. They appear first in the mission Interdiction. It should also be noted they also have ownership of a Huntley, Bobcat and a Maverick which are also completely black. Some fans of the Matrix series have used these models as agents in mods, as they almost perfectly fit the bill.
Certain pedestrians are speculated to be related to aliens. These include two pedestrians that players have nicknamed "Mr. Hat" and "Mr. Trenchcoat", DNMOLC1, who is suspected to be an alien by many players, and the Paranoid Cowboy, who often speaks about being abducted and/or probed by aliens.
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Mr. Hat, and Mr. Trenchcoat.
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Paranoid Cowboy.
DNMOLC1 is the model name given to this pedestrian in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. This pedestrian is classified as an old male Native American and a local to the desert area. He wears a Native American-style brown and red bandanna around his head and an Indian-style necklace and speaks with a Native American accent. He can be found almost anywhere in Bone County, walking around outside or in interiors and driving vehicles. Fans believe that this pedestrian is a alien disguised as an old Native American man. At first he may come off as a delusional old American Indian man saying "we must take care of Mother Earth" and talking about spirits to himself. But the first hints he gives off as being an alien impersonating an Indian is by saying "you're a genius civilization" to himself. When the player bumps into him stuff like "is this mating?", "I come in peace", and other remarks. When provoked into fighting you he says "I do not wish to hurt you", "I will throw with my right?", "I will spill your fluids", and other things that an ordinary human wouldn't say. You can also tell by the odd and rare conversations he has with other pedestrians where he can say "You are poised for extinction". They seem, however, completely oblivious to the fact that he is an alien. He is one of the few pedestrians that will not comment on Carl Johnson's appearance. His purpose on this planet is unknown. Some possibilities are that he is here to study our ways as humans or perhaps he is studying us in order to report back to his superiors for them to plan an invasion of Earth. Another possibility is that he is running from the law of his own race and is disguised as a human so his race can't find him. Not much is known about the alleged "Disguised Alien". One notable thing about him is that any place you find him will be near Area 69. This is a little suspicious.
"Mr. Hat" and "Mr. Trenchcoat"
"Mr. Hat" and "Mr. Trenchcoat" are two pedestrians that appear in the game, as the player never gets to find out their real names, fans have given them simple nicknames based on their appearance. "Mr. Hat" wears an eye-patch, a baseball cap, jeans and a blue shirt, while "Mr. Trenchcoat" wears a black cowboy hat, black trenchcoat, black boots and stars-and-stripes tie. They could be related to the aliens issue in some way. For example, most of the time they spawn near the Big Ear, the geyser or The Lil' Probe Inn - anywhere near the Fort Carson area. Some people claim that they have seen "Mr. Trenchcoat" chasing and talking to people asking them to join. It hasn't been proven that he does that, but a list of phrases that he uses often suggest that he was abducted by aliens at some point in his life:
- They are watching us!
- They know.
- You know they know.
- Get away from me!
- He's one of them!
- You're not gonna probe me again.
- You green blooded monster.
"Mr. Hat", however, doesn't say anything strange, but it was claimed many times that when killed, he spawns again almost immediately after the player has turned away. He is often seen speaking to "Mr. Trenchcoat". It was once claimed that the Sandking that spawns under the Big Ear belongs to Mr Trenchcoat. If the truck is parked there it is supposedly easier to find "Mr. Trenchcoat".
The Big Ear, which some people believe was built by the military forces to control the sky in case aliens invade, points exactly North. There were suggestions about it, but no clear conclusion has been made.
Paranoid Cowboy
The Paranoid Cowboy is a pedestrian found walking around The Big Ear, Fort Carson, inside The Big Spread Ranch, and inside the 24/7 food market. This pedestrian model can only spawn one at a time in each location, however. This pedestrian is very hard to miss. He wears brown cowboy boots, blue jeans, a blue and white checkered flannel shirt, black sunglasses, and a large cowboy hat. He also has a light brown beard and has a cigarette in his mouth. Apparently he has a look-alike, making it rather hard to identify him, the only difference is his voice, the Paranoid Cowboy speaks with no particular accent and his look-alike speaks with a heavy country accent (also shared with another pedestrian). There isn't much to tell about the Paranoid Cowboy other than beyond making comical remarks, he is jokingly paranoid of being abducted by aliens. This is apparent by the remarks he makes about Carl Johnson's appearance. He will say to CJ: "you won't abduct me, no you won't" and "boy, you sure make a good target for them." He is presumed to be talking about aliens when saying "them".
Flying Rods/Skyfishes
There is no proof of UFOs existence in the game, apart from some clues such as radio conversations, game scripts and pedestrian conversations. In the night red and yellow lights can be seen zooming through the sky. Though there are two models in the game named UFO_light02 and 03, but when extracted and viewed, these are just hanging roof lights with wide triangular shades.
Nevertheless, there is another object, which could have been placed by Rockstar themselves. It looks like a black meteor falling from the very top of the screen and disappears behind the horizon. They can usually be seen in the desert area or in Red County when facing the desert.
There are no ideas on what it could possibly be, neither is there anything that can somehow relate to it. The search is still going on, although many people are not familiar with it.
At one occasion a similar object was seen - it looked like an old hand-grenade and had a small exhaust fumes tail behind it; it moves very fast and it is impossible to trace where it came from or where it has landed.
It is not possible to follow the skyfish ( without using the "flying car cheat" ) because of it being extremely fast.
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The four lights that can be seen zooming through the sky at night.
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Screen capture from one video of a UFO.
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