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There were three public parlors on the first floor of the White House. The Red Room — with a new red carpet installed by Mrs. Lincoln — was used by the President and his wife as the family parlor and a place to entertain close friends, especially after dinner. Mary Todd Lincoln's historically-minded sister Emilie Todd Helm described it as "the usual drawing room and contains the portrait of Washington which Dolly Madison cut out of the frame to save from the British Dolly Madison's first husband was a Todd."1
According to a description of the Red Room by journalist Noah Brooks, "The furniture is very rich — of crimson satin and gold damask, with heavy gilded cornices to the windows and a profusion of ormolu work, vases, etc., some of which stuff is very ancient, being bought or presented during Monroe's and Madison's administration. There is a grand piano in this room and a full length portrait of Washington [by Gilbert Stuart]."2 The piano may have been useful since Ward Hill Lamon sometimes gave impromptu vocal concerts in this room for the President.
Shortly after Mr. Lincoln's Inauguration in March 1861, his family retired to the Red Room at the conclusion of their Sunday lunch. Willie decided to play the piano — causing his mother's cousin, Elizabeth Grimsley to reprimand him about breaking the holiness of the Sabbath. On one occasion, Mary Lincoln commented to friends gathered here that she hoped her Confederate brothers would be casualties of war. She went on to say that "they would kill my husband if they could, and destroy our Government — the dearest of all things to us."3
A few weeks later, British journalist William Howard Russell met the President there after accompanying Secretary of State Seward from the nearby State Department. "We accordingly set out through a private door leading to the grounds, and within a few seconds entered the hall of the moderate mansion, White House, which has very much the air of a portion of a bank or public office, being provided with glass doors and heavy chairs and forms. The domestic who was in attendance was dressed like any ordinary citizen, and seemed perfectly indifferent to the high position with whom he conversed, when Mr. Seward asked him, 'Where is the President?' Passing through one of the doors on the left, we entered a handsome spacious room, richly and gorgeously furnished, and rejoicing in a kind of demi-jour, which gave increased effect to the gilt chairs and ormolu ornaments." Russell continued describing Mr. Lincoln's entrance:
As he advanced through the room, he evidently controlled a desire to shake hands all round with everybody, and smiled good-humouredly till he was suddenly brought up by the staid deportment of Mr. Seward, and by the profound diplomatic bows of the Chevalier Bertinatti. Then, indeed, he suddenly jerked himself back, and stood in front of the two ministers, with his body Mr. Seward formally presented the minister, whereupon the President made a prodigiously violent demonstration of his body in a bow which had almost the effect of a smack in its rapidity and abruptness, and, recovering himself, proceeded to give his utmost attention, whilst the Chevalier, with another bow, read from a paper a long address in presenting the royal letter accrediting him as 'minister resident'; and when he said that 'the king desired to give, under your enlightened administration, all possible strength and extent to those sentiments of frank sympathy which do not cease to be exhibited every moment of frank sympathy which do not cease to be exhibited every moment between the two peoples, and whose origin dates back as far as the exertions which have presided over their common destiny as self-governing and free nations,' the President gave another bow still more violent, as much as to accept the allusion.
The minister forthwith handed his letter to the President, who gave it into the custody of Mr. Seward, and then, dipping his hand into his coat pocket, Mr. Lincoln drew out a sheet of paper, from which he rad his reply, the most remarkable part of which was his doctrine 'that the United States were bound by duty not to interfere with the differences of foreign governments and countries.' After some words of compliment, the President shook hands with the minister, who soon afterwards retired, Mr. Seward then took me by the hand and said — 'Mr. President, allow me to present to you Mr. Russell of the London Times.' On which Mr. Lincoln put out his hand in a very friendly manner, and said, 'Mr. Russell, I am very glad to make your acquaintance, and to see you in this country. The London Times is one of the greatest powers in the world — in fact, I don't know anything which has much more power, — except perhaps the Mississippi. I am glad to know you as its minister.' Conversation ensued for some minutes, which the President enlivened by two or three peculiar little sallies, and I left agreeably impressed with his shrewdness, humour, and natural sagacity.4
It was in this room that men gathered at the end of President Lincoln's First State Dinner on March 28, 1861. Having separated the men from the women, President Lincoln had John Nicolay separate the cabinet members into another room where an emergency cabinet meeting was held to discuss the threat to Fort Sumter. He revealed — to the consternation of those present — that General-in-Chief Winfield Scott had urged that both Fort Pickens and Fort Sumter be abandoned. Postmaster General Montgomery Blair, who favored aid to Fort Sumter, blamed Scott's advice on Secretary of State William H. Seward, who opposed such aid and who had a close relationship with General Scott. That night, "Lincoln's eyes did not close in sleep," according to Secretaries Hay and John Nicolay.5 The next day, President Lincoln took the unusual step of asking cabinet members for their written advice on both forts.
Several months later on September 10, 1861 Jessie Benton Frémont, wife of General John C. Frémont, met President Lincoln here at midnight to press the case for her husband's continued generalship in Missouri. Mrs. Frémont later recalled: "After some little waiting the President came in from [the State Dining Room] by the farther door, leaving the door partly open. As he crossed the room that door was still more widely set open. I introduced Judge [Edward] Coles, who then stepped into the deep doorway leading to the blue room – we were just by it – and there he remained walking to and fro, keeping in sight and hearing, just within the range of the doorway. For he was struck at once, as I was, by the President's manner, which was hard – and the first tones of his voice were repelling. Nor did he offer me a seat. He talked sanding, and both voice and manner made the impression that I was to be got rid of briefly."6
President Lincoln could be courtly. He could also be curt. "You are quite the female politician," President Lincoln told Jesse Frémont. The President's temper, which could be kept in check when dealing with the most obstreperous generals, was ignited by her persistence in defending Gen. Frémont against charges of usurpation of authority and mishandling of Union forces in Missouri. Mr. Lincoln had already had a long day, reviewing troops outside of Washington.7
Mrs. Frémont not only delivered a letter from her husband about military developments, but attempted to argue at length the political reasons for his order emancipating slaves in his theater of the Civil War. The President later told John Hay: "She sought an audience with me at midnight and taxed me so violently with many things that I had to exercise all the awkward tact I have to avoid quarreling with her. She surprised me by asking why their enemy, [Postmaster General Montgomery Blair] had been sent to Missouri? She more than once intimated that if Gen. Frémont should conclude to try conclusions with me he could set up for himself."8
The Red Room was not usually part of the public rooms used during levees so furniture from the East Room and Blue Room was temporarily stored in the Red Room. It was also in the Red Room where spiritualists conducted a notable seance for Mrs. Lincoln. Most seances for Mary Lincoln were conducted outside the White at the homes of friends, but occasionally the mediums came to the Lincolns' home. Nettie Colburn Maynard reportedly conducted one such encounter with the spirit world in the Red Room. It could also be used for other kinds of informal entertainment — such a presentation by humorist Stephen Masset in June 1864.
It probably was in this room that singer Madame Patti came to visit with and sing for the Lincolns. She said later that "we were received by Mrs. Lincoln in one of the big parlors. The President's wife was a handsome woman, almost regal in her deep black and expansive crinoline, only an outline of white at throat and wrists. Her manner was most gracious without a particle of reserve or stiffness. 'My dear, it is very kind of you to come to see us,' she said. Taking both my hands in hers and smiling in my face, she added,'I have wanted to see you; — to see the young girl who has done so much, who has set the whole world talking of her wonderful singing.'" After several songs, Madame Patti accompanied herself on the piano while singing, 'The Last Rose of Summer.' She realized afterwards that she had "made an awkward choice.' Mary has "risen from her seat and was standing at a window in the back part of the room with her back toward me. I could not see her face but I knew she was weeping." Mr. Lincoln then requested 'Home Sweet Home."9
Historian David Rankin Barbee wrote that her accompanist "did not know the air, and Patti, who knew it, did not know the words, and had never sung them. Seeing her dilemma, 'the President rose from his seat, went quickly to a small stand at the foot of the piano, took from it a small music book, with a vivid green color, and placed it on the piano rack, opened to the music of Home, Sweet Home. Then he returned to his seat without a word and resumed his former posture. 'Well, I sang the song the very best I could do it,' Patti concluded,'and when Mr. Lincoln thanked me his voice was husky and his eyes were full of tears. By that time I was so wrought up over the situation myself that I was actually blubbering when we were taking leave of the recently bereaved parents.'"10
It was probably in this room in February 1865 that Mr. Lincoln told Colonel James Grant Wilson the story about an old Southern Illinois politician who had approached him in 1860: "So you're Abe Lincoln," said the Democrat." "Yes, that is my name," said Mr. Lincoln. "They say you're a self-made man," said the Democrat. "Well, yes, what there is of me is self-made," said Mr. Lincoln. "Well all I have got to say is that it was a damn bad job," said the Democrat.11
Lincoln aide William O. Stoddard later recalled: "The Red Room does not look unpleasantly red by gas-light, but the prevailing tint has its effect upon any and all other tints exposed to its influence. For instance, it heightens the deep crimson shade of the silk that Mrs. Lincoln is wearing this evening, and makes it contrast more decidedly with the simple blue worn by the slender young woman who is here to assist her. When good Mrs. [Mary Jane] Welles come in – for she is to come, with a party of friends from the North – there will be more and very capable assistance; but there will also be another and even stronger contrast, for she always wears sober colors."12
President and Mrs. Lincoln were in this room with friends when he received word that General Lee had surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. It was in this room that the President met with Congressmen George Ashmun and Schuyler Colfax just before he went to Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865. They discussed Speaker Colfax's impending trip to California. "Don't forget, Colfax, tell those miners that that is my speech to them [that western resources should be quickly developed], which I send by you. Let me hear from you on the road, and I will telegraph you at San Francisco. Pleasant journey and good bye." Earlier, Mr. Lincoln had told Colfax to tell the miners "that I shall promote their interests to the utmost of my ability; because their prosperity is the prosperity of the Nation…[and] we shall prove in a very few years that we are indeed the Treasury of the World."13 Doorkeeper Tom Pendel in Thirty-Six Years in the White House recalled:
On the fourteenth of April, 1865, in the evening just previous to the time when the President and Mrs. Lincoln were going to the theatre, George Ashmun, of Massachusetts, called on Mrs. Lincoln, and I showed him into the Red Parlor, took his card upstairs, and soon the President and Mrs. Lincoln, with Mr. Colfax, then Speaker of the house, came downstairs and went into the Red Parlor where Mr. Ashmun was waiting. They all entered into a lively local conversation, and came out of the Red Parlor presently, and stood in the inner corridor. Their conversation was about the trip Mr. Colfax proposed to take across the continent. They then passed out of the corridor into the main vestibule. Mr. Colfax bade the President and Mrs. Lincoln good-evening, and went upstairs to see the Private Secretary, Mr. John G. Nicolay. Mr. Ashmun went out on the portico with the President and Mrs. Lincoln, said good-bye and started off downtown. Ned Burke and Charles Forbes, the coachman and footman, respectively, drove over to a private residence, and took in the coach Major Rathbone and Miss Harris, who was the daughter of Senator Ira T. Harris, of New York.14
- Katherine Helm, Mary, Wife of Lincoln, p. 222
- Michael Burlingame, editor, Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks, p. 81.
- Ruth Painter Randall, Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage, pp. 263-264.
- Fletcher Pratt, editor, William Howard Russell, My Diary North and South, p. 22-24.
- Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, p. 224-225.
- Allan Nevins, Frémont: Pathmarker of the West, p. 516-617.
- Allan Nevins, War for the Union, Volume I, pp. 426-428.
- Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger, editors, Inside Lincoln's White House: The complete Civil War Diary of John Hay, p. 123.
- Katherine Helm, Mary, Wife of Lincoln, p. 200.
- David Rankin Barbee, "The Musical Mr. Lincoln," The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, December 1949, Vol. V., No.8, pp. 437-439, (from an interview in the
- Montgomery Advertiser, February 12, 1911.)
- Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Intimate Memories of Lincoln, p. 427.
- William O. Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, pp. 174-175 13. Willard H. Smith, Schuyler Colfax, p. 207.
- Thomas Pendel, Thirty-Six Years in the White House, pp. 39-40.
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Crock pots containing lead was the subject of an investigation that started in Salt Lake City with KUTV's Bill Gephardt. After his investigation about lead in ceramic glazed plates, bowls and mugs and finding high a content of lead in them, his focus turned to ceramic glazed crock pots after a viewer did a little research on her own.
A mom from Weber County, was a frequent user of her crock pot. Her concern about lead poisoning prompted her to take her Rival slow cooker to the county fair, where a booth was doing free lead testing on dishes. What she discovered was her crock pot contain lead. She notified Gephardt about her findings and he took the investigation from there.
Gephardt took several slow cookers to Data Chem lab in Salt Lake City to be tested. He found that 20 percent of the cookers were leaching out measurable amounts of lead into food. When ceramic ware is heated to just 80-degrees, it releases nearly 10-times the amount of lead as a plate at room temperature. (Something to keep in mind when you heat food in the micro-wave on ceramic dishes.) Crock pots can heat up to more than 250-degrees.
Wanting additional findings, Gephardt took a crock pot to chemist Robert Aullman, who preformed the standard test established by the Food and Drug Administration for testing leaching lead. He found that the Rival slow cooker leached lead at .085 parts per million. Anything below 2.0 is considered acceptable by the FDA. (It's important to note that lead does not leave the body easily. A build up of lead over a period of time is dangerous.)
Mr. Gephardt took his findings to Utah House Rep. Jim Matheson. Congress was looking into a proposed amendment that would force manufactures to put labels on ceramic ware to identify lead content. However, Gephardt's investigation was reported in 2004 and, so far, no law or amendment has been put into place.
My research in to whether Rival had removed the lead from their crock pots produced conflicting information. I called Rival's Consumer Services department (1-800-777-5452) and they confirmed that their slow cookers still contain lead. They stated that the level is below the FDA standard for lead in ceramic products.
Upon further investigation, I called Hamilton Beach (1-800-851-8900) and they assured me that their crock pots do not contain any lead or cadmium. (Cadmium is another highly toxic metal associated with zinc ores. Oil paint used by artist's contain a lot of Cadmium and Zinc…. Cadmium Red…Cadmium Yellow… Zinc White. It's also found in industries where ore is being processed or smelted. Ceramic can be colored with Cadmium colors.)
It's been suggested that you can use plastic liners in your crock pot so lead doesn't leach into your food. I personally don't recommend doing that because plastics heated to high temperatures leach other kinds of toxins. However, Reynolds claim their liners are made from a high resin nylon which is suitable for high temperature cooking. You'll have to be the judge on this one.
I don't use my crock pot often, but when I do, I want to know that the food is completely safe for my family. "So long… Good-bye… Rival crock pot."
I find it disconcerting that the FDA allows any amount of lead in products if it's possible to manufacture them with out it. A little of this… and and little of that… here and there can amount to a lot of toxins being ingested by Americans.
I'm not convinced that the FDA always has our best interests in mind. Just look at how many drugs and products are taken off the market that have been found to be harmful… even deadly… after the FDA has put its stamp of approval on them.
Becoming aware, and taking responsibility for our own well-being is the best solution for combating toxic and lead poisoning.
Till Later
Insightful Nana
P.S. The Hamilton Beach 6 Qt. slow cooker runs about $49.99 compared to Rival's 6 Qt. at $34.99. It looks like Hamilton Beach is a bit more expensive… but what's $15.00 when you can have a lead free product and peace of mind.
P.S.S. If you find another crock pot that doesn't contain lead… let me know.

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Triangle - A12 Avenger
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Triangle - A12 Stealth Avenger
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..the secreting away of a technology that would free humanity immediately from its - planned - wretched state.
According to company documents seen by the respected journal Jane's Defence Weekly, Boeing is investigating Podkletnov?s claims to have built an "impulse gravity generator".
Dr. Paul Laviolette disclosed the existence of a classified 2007 study called [G.R.A.S.P.] or [Gravity Research for Advanced Space Propulsion] in his book ?Secrets of Antigravity?.
Obama?s National Security Advisor James L. Jones worked for Boeing on this project and has already begun the disclosure process by declassifying Electro-Gravity (Biefeld-Brown).
Triangle - A12 Avenger
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In 1992 while working at a superconductor laboratory in Finland Dr. Eugene Podkletnov was constructing and experimenting with large rotating superconductor discs. During his experiments a colleague noticed a strange effect would disturb smoke above the ring. Tests confirmed a 2% reduction in the weight of objects suspended directly over the ring. The phenomenon was also observed on the floor above where they measured a significant drop in barometric pressure in the area of the room where the superconductor was spinning in the room beneath.
It was at this moment that Podkletnov first realized he was dealing with a Gravity Effect, and not just some EM interference.
NASA tried to replicate the experiment in 2002 without success, but they used a tiny superconductor in their experiment. The key, according to Podkletnov, is the 30cm radius of the superconductor. However, growing SC crystals this large is an art form in itself. Scientists are now considering the use of another type of Bose-Einstein condensate called a ?Super-Fluid? which flows with ZERO resistance. Plasmas are also being considered.
EM Antigravity, Northop Grumman B-2 Spirit Stealthbomber
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The most primitive antigravity technology is electrogravitic. This involves using voltages in the millions of volts to disrupt the ambient gravitational field. This results in an 89% reduction in gravity?s hold on airframes in such vehicles as the B-2 Stealth Bomber and the TR3-B Astra triangular craft. And given the considerable ambient ionization field I observed around the X-22A, it is reasonable to assume that extreme-voltage electrogravitics is also employed with these craft.
The next level up of sophistication is magnetogravitic. This involves generating high-energy toroidal fields spun at incredible rpm?s, which also disrupts the ambient gravitational field, indeed to the extent that a counterforce to Earth?s gravitational pull is generated. The early British aeronautical engineers called this dynamic counterbary. This may have been used in some earlier American saucers and prototypes, but I have only been told that the secret Nautilus spacefaring craft uses magnetic pulsing , which appears to utilize this technology.
The third level of sophistication, that used in the more modern American antigravity craft, is direct generation and harnessing of the gravitational strong force. Such a strong-force field extends slightly beyond the atomic nucleus of Element 115, an exotic element donated by Star Visitor scientist-consultants to human scientists at S-4, a secret base south of Area 51. By amplifying that exposed gravitational strong force, and using antimatter reactor high energy, and then directing it, it is possible to lift a craft from the Earth and then change directions by vectoring the shaped antigravity force field thus generated. Important information about this third technology is available on Bob Lazar?s website. (1) This information is also described on the Bob Lazar video. Lazar worked on extraterrestrial technology at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Area 51?s Site S-4. (2)
Antigravity; TR3-B Triangle (Driehoek)
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7) the TR3-B ?Astra",
is a large triangular anti-gravity craft within the U.S. fleet. Black projects defense industry insider Edgar Rothschild Fouche wrote about the existence of the TR3-B in his book, Alien Rapture (10).
My ex-NSA informant, ?Z?, also confirmed that the TR3-B is operational. ?Z? had this to say about the TR3-B triangular antigravity craft.
TR3-B. This is the code name for what everyone on Earth has seen. It is a very large triangular-shaped re-entry vehicle with anti-gravity. It is what the November [2000] issue of Popular Mechanics identified as the Lenticular Reentry Vehicle, a nuclear-powered flying saucer, the first version of which went operational in 1962, [the version which Popular Mechanics illustrated.]
It was used in Gulf War?s early hours with electromagnetic-pulse/laser cannons. It literally sat mid-air, firing long-, medium-, short-range to take out antennas, towers, communications, air traffic control towers, TV dishes and centers, etc. For three hours, these three triangles [TR3-Bs] just sat there blowing up everything in sight. Then the Stealth fighters had fun for the rest of the day into the early evening next night. Then [followed] carpet bombings from high altitude B-52 Strato-Fortresses. They dumped all the old, aged Vietnam-era crap [munitions]; a third blew up and the rest [were] duds. Anyways, the TR3B has been in testing since the ?60s. But it has only been perfected for the last 8 years [since 1992].
It is a good remake of what Truman first saw, [the Roswell semi-circular craft]. It is compartmentalized, built by the Skunk Works (Lockheed-Martin?s classified plant at Palmdale, CA) and Boeing [Phantom Works, Seattle]. It is housed in Utah. ?Z? was reminding of his earlier revelation that the U.S. Space Command has located its prime headquarters and antigravity space-launch fleet facility beneath King Mountain, the tallest mountain in the Wasatch Range east of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Obama to Disclose X-Files on Anti-Gravity Technology? http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=NL&v=EjAVCYNdPi4
Obama to Disclose X-Files on Anti-Gravity Technology?
Will Obama Declassify X-Files on Anti-Gravity?
Countdown to May Day!
May 1, 2009 (Obama's 100th day in Office)
Will he do it???
It's not over YET!!!
Does Obama have any real power? Or does a "Secret Government" maintain control over it?
President Barack Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
I am writing you this letter in response to your recent decisions to probe deeper into anti-gravity technology and the so called "X-Files", which in all probably are hiding some amazing and beneficial technologies that I think the American people are more than ready for. In terms of the National Security Risk Factor associated with disclosing material related to the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomena, I want to point out that many of us already know the truth were just waiting for the Government to come forward and admit to it.
As an avid UFO researcher, I have come across a few things that I would really like your National Security and Intelligence team to probe deeper into:
1. NASA was ordered to hand over documents in response to a March 27, 2007 federal Court ruling by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan (Case#1:03CV02509) regarding the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Leslie Kean. NASA is hiding documents and materials that were seized from a crash site in Kecksburg, PA on December 9, 1965.
(www.freedomofinfo.org/foi/complaint.pdf )
2. Former Area 51 employee and whistle blower Edgar Fouche says he worked on the Aurora Project for the US Military where he helped design the anti-gravity propulsion system for the TR3-b Flying Triangle which uses rotating mercury based plasma to achieve anti-gravity. The fundamental scientific principals behind this technology (anomalous effects of rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates) have been investigated by Boeings [GRASP], NASAs Advance Concepts Office, & NASAs Gravity Probe B.
Thank you for your time and dedicated service to the American people. Our thoughts and prayers are with you during this remarkable time.
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TR-3B Astra interplanetary spacecraft (exactly described in the Ancient Vimana Texts) and Project Aurora: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOa87kayqCk
UFO Triangles...Theirs or Ours? Answer: Both * TR-3B Nuclear Powered Aerospace Platform: www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/secret_projects2/project026.htm
UFO Researchers Discuss Project Aurora: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uItTA_q94zU&feature=related
UFO St. Petersburg Triangle TR-3B: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B42MQgNHtDo
ASTRA TR3B EN ANGLETERRE, SOMERSET - 7/4/1998, analysed by LUCASFILM Ltd, San Rafael CA - USA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIOxV1jaikk
Antigravity; Lockheed-Martin's X 33A
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Colonel Donald Ware, USAF (ret.) told me that he had recently learned from a three-star General that the VentureStar X-33 has an electrogravitics (antigravity) system on board (6). This virtually assures that the unacknowledged military antigravity version, the X-33 A, must surely also have electrogravitics on board. It is possible that what I have called the X-33A is the Aurora craft which Dr. Wolf described...
Chemtrails Baarn - the Netherlands, June 2nd, 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5BQHe2ak4o
The International Space Station (ISS) March 17th, 2009 - Baarn, The Netherlands: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVC3ERtZxSk
CHEMTRAILS! BAARN - SOEST - AMERSFOORT, NEDERLAND - 22 APRIL 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCjtu-wC1og
IN THE END OF DAYS - THE EXCELLENT DRUM OF GOLDEN LIGHT WILL SHINE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g_2M_J2d0c
Antigravity; Lockheed-Martin's X22A - Stairway to Heaven, Z. Sitchin, page 167; 'Moving stone', 'a stone that whispers', 'Celestial Chamber of the gods'.
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The Lockheed X-22A is a two-man antigravity disc fighter.
The late Colonel Steve Wilson, USAF (ret.), stated that military astronauts trained at a secret aerospace academy separate from the regular Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, CO. These military astronauts then operate out of Beale and Vandenberg Air Force Bases, Northern California From those bases, these military astronauts regularly fly trans-atmospherically and out into space (7). One of the aerospace craft they use, Colonel Wilson reported, is the X-22A.
Another informant, ?Z?, aka ?Jesse?, who formerly worked at the NSA, told me that the Lockheed X-22A antigravity fighter disc fleet is equipped with Neutral Particle Beam directed-energy weapons, that it is capable of effecting optical as well as radar invisibility, and that it is deployable for worldwide military operations from the new U.S. Space Warfare Headquarters, located in hardened underground facilities beneath 13,528? King?s Peak in the Wasatch Mountains? High Uintas Primitive (Wilderness) Area, 80 miles east of Salt Lake City (8).
Recently I also heard from an Army engineer, formerly TDY?ed to NASA, who shall remain unnamed at his request. He also confirmed that Lockheed had made the X-22A, the two-man antigravity fighter disc which I had seen test-flown in a canyon adjacent to the main Area 51 operations zone. He explained why I had seen the X-22A so nervously flown during that test flight. He said that the original X-22A had had a standard altimeter hard-wired into it, but that such an instrument would give faulty readings in the craft?s antigravity field, which bends space-time. He had recommended that they instead use a gradiometer, which would function better.
Apparently his suggestion was finally taken up, since in more recent years I have seen the X-22As flying more smoothly and confidently at high altitudes over and near Area 51.
Another informant who wishes his identity kept private related operational details about military deployment of antigravity disc craft which sound like the X-22A. He reports:
?During operation Desert Storm a close relative of mine was in charge of a Marine Division right on the front. In the first days film footage and especially video-cams which a large number of G.I.s had were impounded, so they wouldn?t capture any sensitive material. Iraq was pumped up and Gung-Ho, since they had well over 50,000 troops ready to charge us, [and] since we only had about 3500 they knew of, and they knew [that], because of the close proximity of troops we couldn?t nuke them, so, they were assuming piece of cake. Wrong.
?Two pictures my relative confiscated from one of his officers showed:
1. a large disc-shaped craft slightly in front of our men with a high intensity beam of light emitting out of it; then,
2. where men, equipment, etc. was [had stood], there only remained dark charcoal-like spots on the desert floor. We have had this technology for quite a while.?
The described disc was clearly an antigravity, levitating, aerial-weapons platform in the U.S. arsenal. Quite possibly it was the Lockheed X-22A two-man discoid craft, the real DarkStar, of which the unmanned drone X-22 DarkStar is but an aircraft ?cover? program to disguise the existence of this manned antigravity fighter disc, the X-22A.
Further, as ?Z? noted, the real manned discs come equipped with the latest Neutral Particle Beam weapons, which take apart the target at the molecular level
"In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever. This is the stone that you saw cut out from a mountain, but not by humans. It smashed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold. The great God has told you what will happen in the future, Your Majesty. The dream is true, and you can trust that this is its meaning." DANIEL 2:44-45
Aurora SR-33A
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The Aurora SR-33A is a moderate-sized spacefaring vehicle.
The late National Security Council scientist Dr. Michael Wolf (4) of NSC?s unacknowledged Special Studies Group subcommittee, (formerly called MJ-12), has stated that the Aurora can operate on both conventional fuel and antigravity field propulsion systems. He further stated that the Aurora can travel to the Moon.
Wolf had also disclosed to me that the U.S. has a small station on the Moon, and a tiny observation post on Mars (5). Thus I doubt that Dr. Wolf would characterize the Aurora thus, unless it was a vessel already used in making such trips. He disclosed additionally that the Aurora operates out of Area 51, (Groom Dry Lake Air Force Station), at the northeast corner of the Nellis AFB Range, north of Las Vegas, Nevada
Mystery Aircraft
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Real or fiction? See: www.fas.org/irp/mystery/aurora.htm
Antigravity, also Interplanetair vehicle; AURORA * SR 33A or X-33A
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The Aurora SR-33A is a moderate sized spacefaring vehicle. The National Security Council, scientist Dr. Wolf stated that the Aurora can travel to the Moon, already used in making such trips. It has a elektro anti-gravitics system aboard, according USAF Donald Ware.
More info, see: www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_antigravity.htm
Anti-gravity; Real photo: TR-3B Astra Belgium - april 1990 - speed: ups from 1000 to 100.000 km/u.
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Elektro-magnetische zwaartekracht-AntiMaterie reactors. Zulk een krachtveld strekt zich in geringe mate uit achter de atomen van element 115, (afkomstig v/d Anunnakies/Nibiru, meest logisch, waarschijnlijk en wetenschappelijk te bewijzen vanuit de kleitabletten) een exotisch element dat door "Star Visitors=gewend geraakte Anunnakies op Aarde en Raadgevers!" aan de mens (homo sapiens) wetenschappers geschonken werd op S4, een geheime basis ten zuiden van Area 51.
Anti-gravity; Real TR-3B Photo made in April 1990 - TR-3B Astra - Belgium UFO- wave of 1989-1991
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UFO chased by Belgium F16s: See: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-5-Qh7HFGg&mode=related&search= (2min)
Flying Triangle..
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Exotic space-ship - UAV? Guadelupe Basilica
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secret aviation - military drones uav ufo space high speed aurora..?
Exotic space-ship - UAV, Guadelupe Basilica
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military drone uav ufo space high speed aurora?
image TR3-B (Driehoek)
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UFO science key to halting climate change: former Canadian defense minister Wed Feb 28, 1:04 PM ET
OTTAWA (AFP) - A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change, a local paper said Wednesday.
"I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate the burning of fossil fuels within a generation ... that could be a way to save our planet," Paul Hellyer, 83, told the Ottawa Citizen.
Alien spacecrafts would have traveled vast distances to reach Earth, and so must be equipped with advanced propulsion systems or used exceptional fuels, he told the newspaper.
Such alien technologies could offer humanity alternatives to fossil fuels, he said, pointing to the enigmatic 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico -- which has become a shrine for UFO believers -- as an example of alien contact.
"We need to persuade governments to come clean on what they know. Some of us suspect they know quite a lot, and it might be enough to save our planet if applied quickly enough," he said.
Hellyer became defense minister in former prime minister Lester Pearson's cabinet in 1963, and oversaw the controversial integration and unification of Canada's army, air force and navy into the Canadian Forces.
He shocked Canadians in September 2005 by announcing he once saw a UFO.
Jet creating Sonic boom
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Omegaradio.tk: http://sites.google.com/site/wwwomegaradiotk/Home/slapstick-movies
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TR3-B ASTRA Triangular Craft, Tagrek- USSR, March 1990 - speed: up to 100.000 km/u
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Maart 1990, ook in Rusland destijds TR-3Bs [zero gravity] waargenomen..
Anti-Gravity: TR3-A Pumpkinseed
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The TR3-A ?Pumpkinseed? is a super-fast air vehicle.
The ?Pumpkinseed? nickname is a reference to its thin oval airframe, whose contours resemble that seed. It may be the craft identified as using pulse detonation technology for propulsion in a sub-hypersonic regime, and also uses antigravity technology for either mass-reduction or complementary field propulsion at higher speed levels. As air breathers, these Pulse Detonation Wave Engines (PDWEs) could theoretically propel a hypersonic aircraft towards Mach 10 at an altitude in excess of 180,000 feet. Used to power an trans-atmospheric vehicle, the same PDWEs might be capable of lifting the craft to the edge of space when switched to rocket mode.
TR3-B Astra Triangular Craft (Driehoek) Belgische Ufo-golf 30-31 maart 1990
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World at Break Point
Author Steve Quayle discussed flash points of increasing tension around the world, including military unrest, financial meltdowns, and UFO activity. A recent fireball in the Pacific Northwest wasn't actually a meteor-- it was a UFO being shot down by a black budget US military unit using exotic new weaponry, he reported. There's an ongoing battle between the military and ET craft, and the US has developed secret spacecraft such as the huge triangular TR3-B, he claimed.
Quayle warned that Russia was returning to its Cold War stance with the US, and China, Iran and Pakistan were also concerns. On the economic front, there is too much debt. Six million Americans will lose their homes, the dollar will fall even lower and the middle class will be wiped out, as part of a plan by the Global Elite, he suggested. For more, view a page of links he set up, covering the subjects of this show.
Quayle also touched on his research into giants. He discussed the remains of a 12?18 ft. tall skeleton in Syria, and a giant he said was being kept in suspended animation in Tibet.
Belgium 1991; TR3-B Triangle (Driehoek)
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EM-anti-Gravity and ZPE using? Triangle Shaped Exotic Spaceships , Belgium UFO or now IFO wave 1991..If some type of UFOs might use Element 115 according Bob Lazar (former S4-Ara 51), it could come from Nibiru, old enough to evolve there naturally.. In truth, everything on Earth comes from Planet X or Nibiru, to start with DNA, or "the Seed of Life" 3.9 billion years ago when Nibiru's moons collapsed with Tiamat, created our Earth, asteroid belt and the comets. Source; the 12th Planet, by Z. Sitchin.
TR-3B "Astra" or Triangle (Driehoek) Prototype
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Alien Rapture, the Chosen by Edgar Rothschild Fouche and Brad Steiger: www.ufoinfo.com/ufobooks/alienrapture.shtml
Alien Rapture is not just another novel about little green men and bug-eyed monsters. It is written in the style of Michael Crichton's The Sphere, Sidney Sheldon's The Doomsday Conspiracy and the smash hit "Independence Day." The amazing difference is that Alien Rapture - The Chosen is filled with incredible facts, inside information and plausible details of who controls the UFO conspiracy. Alien Rapture explains how the government conspiracy is accomplished, why it exists, and what the MJ-12 committee's plans for our future are.
Not since Orson Welles stirred the imagination and fears of the American public with his Martian invasion broadcast has the subject of Aliens, government conspiracies and UFOs been hotter. Now, Edgar Rothschild Fouch?, a brilliant new writer and ex-Department of Defense insider, and Brad Steiger, a recognized UFO expert and author of the best selling Project Blue Book, have teamed up to produce the most exciting and comprehensive novel yet on the official cover-up of classified "Black Programs" and the astounding new engineering marvels being developed via the exploitation of alien technologies through reverse engineering.
TR-3B Astra or Triangle (Driehoek) Prototype
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UFO Science key to halting climate change: Former Canadian defense Minister who once saw a UFO himself.
UFO Scientist Bob Lazar Area 51/S4, "there's an Entire Alien Civilization among us": www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeWWWMJzYNY&NR=1 (6:31)
TR3-B ASTRA Triangular Craft
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Triangle Daytime
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Triangle Daytime - Scotland
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UFO Daytime - UAV?
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UFOs Belgie 1991: type TR3-B ASTRA - Triangles (Driehoek)
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7) the TR3-B ?Astra",
is a large triangular anti-gravity craft within the U.S. fleet. Black projects defense industry insider Edgar Rothschild Fouche wrote about the existence of the TR3-B in his book, Alien Rapture (10).
My ex-NSA informant, ?Z?, also confirmed that the TR3-B is operational. ?Z? had this to say about the TR3-B triangular antigravity craft.
TR3-B. This is the code name for what everyone on Earth has seen. It is a very large triangular-shaped re-entry vehicle with anti-gravity. It is what the November [2000] issue of Popular Mechanics identified as the Lenticular Reentry Vehicle, a nuclear-powered flying saucer, the first version of which went operational in 1962, [the version which Popular Mechanics illustrated.]
It was used in Gulf War?s early hours with electromagnetic-pulse/laser cannons. It literally sat mid-air, firing long-, medium-, short-range to take out antennas, towers, communications, air traffic control towers, TV dishes and centers, etc. For three hours, these three triangles [TR3-Bs] just sat there blowing up everything in sight. Then the Stealth fighters had fun for the rest of the day into the early evening next night. Then [followed] carpet bombings from high altitude B-52 Strato-Fortresses. They dumped all the old, aged Vietnam-era crap [munitions]; a third blew up and the rest [were] duds. Anyways, the TR3B has been in testing since the ?60s. But it has only been perfected for the last 8 years [since 1992].
It is a good remake of what Truman first saw, [the Roswell semi-circular craft]. It is compartmentalized, built by the Skunk Works (Lockheed-Martin?s classified plant at Palmdale, CA) and Boeing [Phantom Works, Seattle]. It is housed in Utah. ?Z? was reminding of his earlier revelation that the U.S. Space Command has located its prime headquarters and antigravity space-launch fleet facility beneath King Mountain, the tallest mountain in the Wasatch Range east of Salt Lake City, Utah.
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The 2005 Epiphone Calendar is here: A tribute to the women who play Epiphone.
Friday, 17 December 2004
The Hot Seat: these guitarists' seats from Overkill Design are disguised as Fender amps and have plenty of room inside for loads of guitar accessories. Mind, for that kind of price, I'd want it to be a functioning amp too!
The 'Team Squier' Garage To Glory Casting Call: For 2005, Squier has opted to forgo the usual 'established artist' photos in the Fender Frontline 2005 catalog...
Beatles guitar up for grabs: The Gibson SG as played by both George Harrison and John Lennon is expected to fetch more than half a million dollars when it goes under the hammer at Christie's later today.
Johnson Introduces Delta Blues Resonator: the wood-body JR-410 Delta Blues, available in roundneck or squareneck designs with hand-spun cone and chrome-plated bell brass coverplate/tailpiece.
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Dick Dale - King of the Surf Guitar: a nice little article I found on the H2G2 website.
best. guitar. ever. According to A Small Victory, that is.
Tuesday, 14 December 2004
One-woman guitar storm: Fife-born and forthright, singer KT Tunstall tells Neil McCormick why she's more than just another Katie Melua or Joss Stone (from The Electronic Telegraph). I saw her perform on Jools Holland's Later show on TV recently and she played an amazing solo number building up a whole accompaniment using delays.
Beatles' "jinxed" guitar set to beat auction record: but is the guitar really cursed?
Thursday, 9 December 2004
Dimebag Darrell, Four Others Killed In Ohio Concert Shooting: Shocking news, the Pantera/Damageplan guitarist has been shot and killed on stage. See also the BBC News.
Wednesday, 8 December 2004
Nirvana Bassist Puts Himself Up For Auction: see also the follow-up story, Nirvana Fan Pays £4000 For Plane Ride
Late Slim Dusty nominated for Golden Guitars: the late country music star, Slim Dusty, has received a number of nominations for next year's Golden Guitar Awards.
New SE Soapbar II Model from Paul Reed Smith: more yawnworthy guitars from PRS. Zzzzzzz...
Paul Reed Smith Intros Billy Martin SE Model: The lead guitarist for Good Charlotte now has his own Paul Reed Smith SE model guitar, featuring a mahogany neck and body with a matte black finish and black hardware. Well, good for him.
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www.harpguitars.net: I may have linked to this site before, but what the hell, these are fascinating instruments!
Friday, 3 December 2004
New Experimental Effects Pedal from ElectroKraft: Is it a fuzzbox or is it a theremin?
Breedlove Guitar Company Introduces Revival Series: dreadnought and orchestral model guitars due to be unveiled at the upcoming Winter NAMM show in Anaheim, CA.
AmpliTube Live Available Now for Both Windows and OS X: turn your computer into a virtual guitar amp!
Thursday, 2 December 2004
Son to play tribute to late guitarist: Jackson Smith plays a tribute gig to his dad, Fred 'Sonic' Smith of the MC5 and Sonic's Rendezvous.
Deep Purple's is best guitar riff ever: I don't need to tell you which song, do I?
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- driver for SCSI tape devices
The st device driver provides a standard interface to various SCSI tape devices. See mtio(7I) for details.
To determine if the st device driver supports your tape device, SPARC users should enter the following on a command line:
% strings /kernel/drv/sparcv9/st | grep -i <tape device name>
x86 users can do the following to determine if the st device driver supports a particular tape device:
% strings /kernel/drv/st | grep -i <tape device name>
The driver can be opened with either rewind on close or no rewind on close options. It can also be opened with the O_NDELAY (see open(2)) option when there is no tape inserted in the drive. A maximum of four tape formats per device are supported (see FILES below). The tape format is specified using the device name. (Tape format is also referred to as tape density).
Following are a list of SCSI commands that can be executed while another host reserves the tape drive. The commands are:
In multi-initiator environments, the driver does not reserve the tape drive if above commands are issued. For other SCSI commands, the driver reserves the tape drive and releases the drive at close if it has been reserved. Refer to the MTIOCRESERVE and MTIOCRELEASE ioctls in mtio(7I) for information about how to allow a tape drive to remain reserved upon close. See the flag options below for information about disabling this feature.
If a SCSI-3 persistent reservation is done through the driver, the driver disables all existing SCSI-2 reservations.
If the tape drive is opened in O_NDELAY mode, no reservation occurs during the open, as per the POSIX standard (see standards(5)). However, if a command not found in the above list is used, a reservation occurs to provide reserve/release functionality before the command is issued.
The st driver now supports persistent errors (see mtio(7I) and asynchronous tape operations (see mtio(7I), aioread(3C), and aiowrite(3C)).
If the driver is opened for reading in a different format than the tape is written in, the driver overrides the user-selected format. For example, if a 1/4" cartridge tape is written in QIC-24 format and opened for reading in QIC-150, the driver detects a read failure on the first read and automatically switches to QIC-24 to read the data.
If the low density format is used, no indication is given that the driver has overridden the format you selected. Other formats issue a warning message to inform you of an overridden format selection. Some devices automatically perform this function and do not require driver support (1/2" reel tape drive, for example).
Writing from the beginning of tape is performed in the user-specified format. The original tape format is used for appending onto previously written tapes.
Drives that support SCSI T10 standard Logical Block Protection has a minor node that have the letter d after the device number. If these nodes are opened this enables this protection. This sets the drive to check per block CRCs that are added to each block as they are writen and again when those blocks are read back. The host also checks and compare the CRCs before returning them to the reading application to insure there has been no data curruption.
The st driver has a built-in configuration table for most Sun-supported tape drives. For those tape drives that are not in the table, the st driver tries to read the configuration from the tape drive through optional SCSI-3 commands. To support the addition of third party tape devices which are not in the built-in configuration table or not able to report their configuration, device information can be supplied in st.conf as global properties that apply to each node, or as properties that are applicable to one node only. By supplying the information in st.conf, the built-in configuration is overridden and the st driver does not query the configuration from tape drives. The st driver looks for the property called tape-config-list. The value of this property is a list of triplets, where each triplet consists of three strings.
The formal syntax is:
tape-config-list = <triplet> [, <triplet> *];
<triplet> := <vid+pid>, <pretty print>, <data-property-name>
<data-property-name> = <version>, <type>, <bsize>, <options>, <number of densities>, <density> [, <density>*], <default-density>;
<data-property-name> = <version 2>, <type>, <bsize>, <options>, <number of densities>, <density> [, <density>*], <default-density>, <non-motion time-out>, <I/O time-out>, <rewind time-out>, <space time-out>, <load time-out>, <unload time-out>, <erase time-out>;
A semicolon (;) is used to terminate a prototype devinfo node specification. Individual elements listed within the specification should not be separated by a semicolon. (Refer to driver.conf(4) for more information.)
<vid+pid> is the string that is returned by the tape device on a SCSI inquiry command. This string can contain any character in the range 0x20-0x7e. Characters such as " (double quote) or ' (single quote), which are not permitted in property value strings, are represented by their octal equivalent (for example, \042 and \047). Trailing spaces can be truncated.
<pretty print> is used to report the device on the console. This string can have zero length, in which case the <vid+pid> is used to report the device.
<data-property-name> is the name of the property which contains all the tape configuration values (such as <type>, <bsize>, etc.) corresponding for the tape drive for the specified <vid+pid>.
<version> is a version number and should be 1 or 2. In the future, higher version numbers can be used to allow for changes in the syntax of the <data-property-name> value list.
<type> is a type field. Valid types are defined in /usr/include/sys/mtio.h. For third party tape configuration, the following generic types are recommended:
<bsize> is the preferred block size of the tape device. The value should be 0 for variable block size devices.
<options> is a bit pattern representing the devices, as defined in /usr/include/sys/scsi/targets/stdef.h. Valid flags for tape configuration are shown in the following table. This table does not list flags that are non-configurable in st.conf (including ST_KNOWS_MEDIA which uses the media type reported from the mode select data to select the correct density code).
The flag indicates the tape device supports variable length record sizes.
The flag indicates a Quarter Inch Cartridge (QIC) tape device.
The flag indicates a 1/2-inch reel tape device.
If flag is set, the device supports backspace over EOF marks (bsf - see mt(1)).
If flag is set, the tape device supports the backspace record operation (bsr - see mt(1)). If the device does not support bsr, the st driver emulates the action by rewinding the tape and using the forward space record (fsf) operation to forward the tape to the correct file. The driver then uses forward space record (fsr - see mt(1)) to forward the tape to the correct record.
The flag indicates the tape device needs a longer time than normal to erase.
The auto-density override flag. The device is capable of determining the tape density automatically without issuing a "mode-select"/"mode-sense command."
The flag disables the device's ability to perform buffered writes. A buffered write occurs when the device acknowledges the completion of a write request after the data has been written to the device's buffer, but before all of the data has been written to the tape.
If flag is set, the device can determine when EOD (End of Data) has been reached. When this flag is set, the st driver uses fast file skipping. Otherwise, file skipping happens one file at a time.
The flag indicates the device does not complain if the st driver is unloaded and loaded again (see modload(1M) and modunload(1M)). That is, the driver returns the correct inquiry string.
The flag indicates the tape device performs a "request sense" or "log sense" command when the device is closed. Currently, only Exabyte and DAT drives support this feature.
The flag indicates the tape device requires timeouts that are five times longer than usual for normal operation.
The flag applies to variable-length tape devices. If this flag is set, the record size is not limited to a 64 Kbyte record size. The record size is only limited by the smaller of either the record size supported by the device or the maximum DMA transfer size of the system. (Refer to Large Record Sizes and WARNINGS.) The maximum block size that is not be broken into smaller blocks can be determined from the mt_bf returned from the MTIOCGET ioctl(). This number is the lesser of the upper block limit returned by the drive from READ BLOCK LIMITS command and the dma-max property set by the Host Bus Adapter (HBA) to which the drive is attached.
If the ST_MODE_SEL_COMP flag is set, the driver determines which of the two mode pages the device supports for selecting or deselecting compression. It first tries the Data Compression mode page (0x0F); if this fails, it tries the Device Configuration mode page (0x10). Some devices, however, can need a specific density code for selecting or deselecting compression. Please refer to the device specific SCSI manual. When the flag is set, compression is enabled only if the c or u device is used. When the lower 2 densities of a drive are identically configured and the upper 2 densities are identically configured, but the lower and upper differ from each other and ST_MODE_SEL_COMP is set, the "m" node sets compression on for the lower density code (for example, 0x42) and the c and unodes set compression on for the higher density (for example, 0x43). For any other device densities, compression is disabled.
The ST_NO_RESERVE_RELEASE flag disables the use of reserve on open and release on close. If an attempt to use a ioctl of MTRESERVE or MTRELEASE on a drive with this flag set, it returns an error of ENOTTY (inappropriate ioctl for device).
The ST_READ_IGNORE_ILI flag is applicable only to variable block devices which support the SILI bit option. The ST_READ_IGNORE_ILI flag indicates that SILI (suppress incorrect length indicator) bit sets during reads. When this flag is set, short reads (requested read size is less than the record size on the tape) is successful and the number of bytes transferred is equal to the record size on the tape. The tape is positioned at the start of the next record skipping over the extra data (the remaining data has been has been lost). Long reads (requested read size is more than the record size on the tape) sees a large performance gain when this flag is set, due to overhead reduction. When this flag is not set, short reads returns an error of ENOMEM.
The ST_READ_IGNORE_EOFS flag is applicable only to 1/2" Reel Tape drives and when performing consecutive reads only. It should not be used for any other tape command. Usually End-of-recorded-media (EOM) is indicated by two EOF marks on 1/2" tape and application cannot read past EOM. When this flag is set, two EOF marks no longer indicate EOM allowing applications to read past two EOF marks. In this case it is the responsibility of the application to detect end-of-recorded-media (EOM). When this flag is set, tape operations (like MTEOM) which positions the tape at end-of-recorded-media fails since detection of end-of-recorded-media (EOM) is to be handled by the application. This flag should be used when backup applications have embedded double filemarks between files.
The ST_SHORT_FILEMARKS flag is applicable only to EXABYTE 8mm tape drives which supports short filemarks. When this flag is set, short filemarks is used for writing filemarks. Short filemarks could lead to tape incompatible with some otherwise compatible device. By default long filemarks is used for writing filemarks.
If ST_EJECT_TAPE_ON_CHANGER_FAILURE flag is set, the tape is ejected automatically if the tape cartridge is trapped in the medium due to positioning problems of the medium changer.
The following ASC/ASCQ keys are defined to the reasons for causing tape ejection if ST_EJECT_TAPE_ON_CHANGER_FAILURE option is set to 0x200000:
Sense ASC/ASCQ Description
4 15/01 Mechanical Failure
4 44/00 Internal Target Failure
2 53/00 Media Load or Eject Failed
4 53/00 Media Load or Eject Failed
4 53/01 Unload Tape Failure
If ST_RETRY_ON_RECOVERED_DEFERRED_ERROR flag is set, the st driver retries the last write if this cmd caused a check condition with error code 0x71 and sense code 0x01. Some tape drives, notably the IBM 3090, require this option.
When ST_WORMABLE is set, st attempts to detect the presence of WORM media in the device.
<number of densities> is the number of densities specified. Each tape drive can support up to four densities. The value entered should therefore be between 1 and 4; if less than 4, the remaining densities are be assigned a value of 0x0.
<density> is a single-byte hexadecimal number. It can either be found in the device specification manual or be obtained from the device vendor.
<default-density> has a value between 0 and (<number of densities> - 1).
<non-motion time-out> Time in seconds that the drive should be able to perform any SCSI command that does not require tape to be moved. This includes mode sense, mode select, reserve, release, read block limits, and test unit ready.
<I/O time-out> Time in seconds to perform data transfer I/O to or from tape including worst case error recovery.
<rewind time-out> Time in seconds to rewind from anywhere on tape to BOT including worst case recovery forcing buffered write data to tape.
<space time-out> Time in seconds to space to any file, block or end of data on tape. Including worst case when any form of cataloging is invalid.
<load time-out> Time in seconds to load tape and be ready to transfer first block. This should include worst case recovery reading tape catalog or drive specific operations done at load.
<unload time-out> Time in seconds to unload tape. Should include worst case time to write to catalog, unthread, and tape cartridge unloading. Also should include worst case time for any drive specific operations that are preformed at unload. Should not include rewind time as the driver rewinds tape before issuing the unload.
<erase time-out> Time in seconds to preform a full (BOT to EOT) erase of longest medium with worst case error recovery.
Devices that support Data Protection requires a conf file entry to configure this feature. After the st_dadp_settings= entry is a list of drives and their configurations. Each list member has the Vendor and Product in double quotes, a comma, then an CRC algorithm name in double quotes, a comma, a configuration name to be associated with that type of drive, which is also double quoted. Each entry is delimited from the next entry by a comma, and the last entry is terminated with a semicolon.
The currently supported CRC algorithms are sb-2, crc32c, and reed-solomom.
If you wish to explicitly disable data protection for type of drive you can use the name DISABLED to prevent Data protection.
If a match is found between an entry in the st_dadp_settings and the Inquiry information returned from a drive being configured, it looks for and used the configuration name specified.
Each named configuration has a unique name followed by an equal sign and four values.
The values that are mode selected to the drive to put it into Data Protection mode. This entry is followed by a comma.
The number of bytes required to contain the CRC. This entry is followed by a comma.
If the drive requires data to be evenly divisible by specific value, usually the power of 2, that power of 2 is used here. If data size must be evenly divisible by 4, you would use 2, since 2 to the second power is 4. This entry is followed by a comma.
The initial value used to start the CRC calculation.
Each named configuration is completed with a semicolon.
Each device maintains I/O statistics both for the device and for each partition allocated on that device. For each device/partition, the driver accumulates reads, writes, bytes read, and bytes written. The driver also takes hi-resolution time stamps at queue entry and exit points, which facilitates monitoring the residence time and cumulative residence-length product for each queue.
Each device also has error statistics associated with it. These must include counters for hard errors, soft errors and transport errors. Other data can be implemented as required.
The behavior of SCSI tape positioning ioctls is the same across all devices which support them. (Refer to mtio(7I).) However, not all devices support all ioctls. The driver returns an ENOTTY error on unsupported ioctls.
The retension ioctl only applies to 1/4" cartridge tape devices. It is used to restore tape tension, thus improving the tape's soft error rate after extensive start-stop operations or long-term storage.
In order to increase performance of variable-length tape devices (particularly when they are used to read/write small record sizes), two operations in the MTIOCTOP ioctl, MTSRSZ and MTGRSZ, can be used to set and get fixed record lengths. The ioctl also works with fixed-length tape drives which allow multiple record sizes. The min/max limits of record size allowed on a driver are found by using a SCSI-2 READ BLOCK LIMITS command to the device. If this command fails, the default min/max record sizes allowed are 1 byte and 63k bytes. An application that needs to use a different record size opens the device, sets the size with the MTSRSZ ioctl, and then continues with I/O. The scope of the change in record size remains until the device is closed. The next open to the device resets the record size to the default record size (retrieved from st.conf).
The error status is reset by the MTIOCGET get status ioctl call or by the next read, write, or other ioctl operation. If no error has occurred (sense key is 0), the current file and record position is returned.
The driver is opened for write access and the tape is write-protected or the tape unit is reserved by another host.
The tape drive is in use by another process. Only one process can use the tape drive at a time. The driver allows a grace period for the other process to finish before reporting this error.
The number of bytes read or written is not a multiple of the physical record size (fixed-length tape devices only).
During opening, the tape device is not ready because either no tape is in the drive, or the drive is not on-line. Once open, this error is returned if the requested I/O transfer could not be completed.
This indicates that the tape device does not support the requested ioctl function.
During opening, the tape device does not exist.
This indicates that the record size on the tape drive is more than the requested size during read operation.
Example 1 Using a Global tape-config-list Property
The following is an example of a global tape-config-list property:
tape-config-list = "Magic DAT", "Magic 4mm Helical Scan", "magic-data", "Major Appliance", "Major Appliance Tape", "major-tape"; magic-data = 1,0x34,1024,0x1639,4,0,0x8c,0x8c,0x8c,3; major-tape = 2,0x3c,0,0x18619,4,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0, 3,0,0,30,120,0,0,36000; name="st" class="scsi" target=0 lun=0; name="st" class="scsi" target=1 lun=0; name="st" class="scsi" target=2 lun=0; . . . name="st" class="scsi" target=6 lun=0;
Example 2 Using a tape-config-list Property
The following is an example of a tape-config-list property applicable to target 2 only:
name="st" class="scsi" target=0 lun=0; name="st" class="scsi" target=1 lun=0; name="st" class="scsi" target=2 lun=0 tape-config-list = "Magic DAT", "Magic 4mm Helical Scan", "magic-data" magic-data = 1,0x34,1024,0x1639,4,0,0x8c,0x8c,0x8c,3; name="st" class="scsi" target=3 lun=0; . . . name="st" class="scsi" target=6 lun=0;
Example 3 Using st_dadp_settings
Where d is data Protection enabled, l,m,h,u,c specify the density (low, medium, high, ultra/compressed), b is the optional BSD behavior (see mtio(7I)), and n is the optional no rewind behavior, the following example uses st_dadp_settings:
st_dadp_settings= "aVENDOR aDRIVETYPE", "sb-2", "vendor-drive-sb-2"; vendor-drive-sb-2= 0x02,4,0,-1; /dev/rmt/[0- 127][d][l,m,h,u,c][b][n]
To support applications such as seismic programs that require large record sizes, the flag ST_NO_RECSIZE_LIMIT must be set in drive option in the configuration entry. A SCSI tape drive that needs to transfer large records should OR this flag with other flags in the options field in st.conf. (Refer to Tape Configuration.) By default, this flag is set for the built-in config entries of Archive DAT and Exabyte drives.
If this flag is set, the st driver issues a SCSI-2 READ BLOCK LIMITS command to the device to determine the maximum record size allowed by it. If the command fails, st continues to use the maximum record sizes mentioned in the mtio(7I) manual page.
If the command succeeds, st restricts the maximum transfer size of a variable-length device to the minimum of that record size and the maximum DMA size that the host adapter can handle. Fixed-length devices are bound by the maximum DMA size allocated by the machine. Tapes created with a large record size can not be readable by earlier releases or on other platforms.
(Refer to the WARNINGS section for more information.)
The Emulex drives have only a physical end of tape (PEOT); thus it is not possible to write past EOT. All other drives have a logical end of tape (LEOT) before PEOT to guarantee flushing the data onto the tape. The amount of storage between LEOT and PEOT varies from less than 1 Mbyte to about 20 Mbyte, depending on the tape drive.
If EOT is encountered while writing an Emulex, no error is reported but the number of bytes transferred is 0 and no further writing is allowed. On all other drives, the first write that encounters EOT returns a short count or 0. If a short count is returned, then the next write returns 0. After a zero count is returned, the next write returns a full count or short count. A following write returns 0 again. It is important that the number and size of trailer records be kept as small as possible to prevent data loss. Therefore, writing after EOT is not recommended.
Reading past EOT is transparent to the user. Reading is stopped only by reading EOFs. For 1/2" reel devices, it is possible to read off the end of the reel if one reads past the two file marks which mark the end of recorded media.
driver configuration file
structures and definitions for mag tape io control commands
definitions for SCSI tape drives
where d is data Protection enabled, l,m,h,u,c specifies the density (low, medium, high, ultra/compressed), b the optional BSD behavior (see mtio(7I)), and n the optional no rewind behavior.
where l,m,h,u,c specifies the density (low, medium, high, ultra/compressed), b the optional BSD behavior (see mtio(7I)), and n the optional no rewind behavior. For example, /dev/rmt/0lbn specifies unit 0, low density, BSD behavior, and no rewind.
For 1/2" reel tape devices (HP-88780), the densities are:
For 8mm tape devices (Exabyte 8200/8500/8505):
For 4mm DAT tape devices (Archive Python):
For all QIC (other than QIC-24) tape devices:
For QIC-24 tape devices (Emulex MT-02):
mt(1), modload(1M), modunload(1M), open(2), read(2), write(2), aioread(3C), aiowrite(3C), kstat(3KSTAT), driver.conf(4), scsi(4), standards(5), isp(7D), mtio(7I), ioctl(9E)
The st driver diagnostics can be printed to the console or messages file.
Each diagnostic is dependent on the value of the system variable st_error_level. st_error_level can be set in the /etc/system file. The default setting for st_error_level is 4 (SCSI_ERR_RETRYABLE) which is suitable for most configurations since only actual fault diagnostics are printed. Settings range from values 0 (SCSI_ERR_ALL) which is most verbose, to 6 (SCSI_ERR_NONE) which is least verbose. See stdef.h for the full list of error-levels. SCSI_ERR_ALL level the amount of diagnostic information is likely to be excessive and unnecessary.
The st driver diagnostics are described below:
Error for Command: <scsi_cmd_name()> Error Level:<error_class> Requested Block: <blkno> Error Block: <err_blkno> Vendor: <name>: Serial Number: <inq_serial> Sense Key: <es_key> ASC: 0x<es_add_code> (scsi_asc_ascq_name()>), ASCQ: 0x<es_qual_code>, FRU: 0x<ex_fru_code>
where <error_class> can be any one of the following: All, Unknown, Informational, Recovered, Retryable, Fatal
The command indicated by <scsi_cmd_name> failed. Requested Block represents the block where the transfer started. Error Block represents the block that caused the error. Sense Key, ASC, ASCQ and FRU information is returned by the target in response to a request sense command. See SCSI protocol documentation for description of Sense Key, ASC, ASCQ, FRU.
The st driver attempts to validate entries in the st.conf file. Each field in the entry is checked for upper and lower limits and invalid bits set. The fields are named as follows in config string order:
conf version drive type block size options number of densities density code default density non motion timeout I/O timeout space timeout load timeout unload timeout erase timeout
The st.conf diagnostics are described below:
<con-name> <field-in-err> <problem-with-field>
where <con-name> is the name of the config string. Where <field-in-err> is the field containing invalid entries and where <problem-with-field> describes the nature of the invalid entry.
Write/read: not modulo <n> block size
The request size for fixed record size devices must be a multiple of the specified block size.
Recovery by resets failed
After a transport error, the driver attempted to recover by issuing a device reset and then a bus reset if device reset failed. These recoveries failed.
Periodic head cleaning required
The driver reported that periodic head cleaning is now required. This diagnostic is generated either due to a threshold number of retries, or due to the device communicating to the driver that head cleaning is required.
Soft error rate (<n>%) during writing/reading was too high
The soft error rate has exceeded the threshold specified by the vendor.
SCSI transport failed: reason 'xxxx': {retrying|giving up}
The Host Bus Adapter (HBA) has failed to transport a command to the target for the reason stated. The driver either retries the command or, ultimately, gives up.
Tape not inserted in drive
A media access command was attempted while there was no tape inserted into the specified drive. In this case, the drive returns sense key of DRIVE NOT READY.
Transport rejected
The Host Bus Adapter (HBA) driver is not accepting commands after failing to successfully transport a scsi packet to the target. The actual status received by the st driver from the underlying HBA driver was either TRAN_FATAL_ERROR or TRAN_BADPKT.
Retrying command
The st driver failed to complete a command. However the command is retryable and is retried.
Giving up
The st driver has exhausted retries or otherwise is unable to retry the command and so is giving up.
No target struct for st%d
The st driver failed to obtain state information because the requested state structure was not allocated. The specified device was probably not attached.
File mark detected
The operation detected an end of file mark. (File marks signify the end of a file on the tape media).
End-of-media detected
The operation reached the end of the tape media.
Exabyte soft error reporting failed. DAT soft error reporting failed
The st driver was unable to determine if the soft error threshold had been exceeded because it did not successfully read the data it requires or did not obtain enough data. This data is retrieved using the log sense command.
Log sense parameter code does not make sense
The log sense command retrieves hardware statistics that are stored on the drive (for example, soft error counts and retries.) If the data retrieved from the drive is invalid, this message is printed and the data is not used.
Restoring tape position at fileno=%x, blkno=%lx....
The st driver is positioning to the specified file and block. This occurs on an open.
Failed to restore the last <file/block> position: In this state, tape is loaded at BOT during next open
The st driver could not position to the specified location and reverts to the beginning of the tape when the next open is attempted.
Device does not support compression
The compression facility of the device was requested. However the device does not have a hardware compression capability.
DAT soft error reset failed
After DAT soft error reporting, the counters within the device that accumulate this sense data need to be re-set. This operation failed.
Errors after pkt alloc (b_flags=0x%x, b_error=0x%x)
Memory allocation for a scsi packet failed.
Incorrect length indicator set
The drive reported the length of data requested in a READ operation, was incorrect. Incorrect Length Indicator (ILI) is a very commonly used facility in SCSI tape protocol and should not be seen as an error per-se. Applications typically probe a new tape with a read of any length, using the returned length to the read system call for future reads. Along with this operation, an underlying ILI error is received. ILI errors are therefore informational only and are masked at the default st_error_level.
Data property (%s) has no value Data property (%s) incomplete Version # for data property (%s) greater than 1
These diagnostics indicate problems in retrieving the values of the various property settings. The st driver is in the process of setting the property/parameter values for the tape drive using information from either the built-in table within the driver or from uncommented entries in the st.conf file. The effect on the system can be that the tape drive can be set with default or generic driver settings which can not be appropriate for the actual type of tape drive being used.
st_attach-RESUME: tape failure tape position is lost
On a resume after a power management suspend, the previously known tape position is no longer valid. This can occur if the tape was changed while the system was in power management suspend. The operation is not be retried.
Write Data Buffering has been deprecated. Your applications should continue to work normally. However, they should be ported to use Asynchronous I/O.
Indicates that buffering has been removed from Solaris.
Cannot detach: fileno=%x, blkno=%lx
The st driver cannot unload because the tape is not positioned at BOT (beginning of tape). May indicate hardware problems with the tape drive.
Variable record length I/O Fixed record length (%d byte blocks) I/O
Tape-drives can use either Fixed or Variable record length. If the drive uses Fixed length records, then the built in property table or the st.conf file contains a non-zero record-length property. Most DAT, Exabyte and DLT drives support Variable record lengths. Many QIC format tape drives have historically been of Fixed record length.
Command is retried un_ncmds: %d can't retry cmd
These diagnostics are only seen with tape drives with the ST_RETRY_ON_RECOVERED_DEFERRED_ERROR bit set. See stdef.h for explanation of the specific usage of this setting.
Effective with Solaris 2.4, the ST_NO_RECSIZE_LIMIT flag is set for the built-in config entries of the Archive DAT and Exabyte drivers by default. (Refer to Large Record Sizes.) Tapes written with large block sizes prior to Solaris 2.4 can cause some applications to fail if the number of bytes returned by a read request is less than the requested block size (for example, asking for 128 Kbytes and receiving less than 64 Kbytes).
The ST_NO_RECSIZE_LIMIT flag can be disabled in the config entry for the device as a work-around. (Refer to Tape Configuration.) This action disables the ability to read and write with large block sizes and allows the reading of tapes written prior to Solaris 2.4 with large block sizes.
(Refer to mtio(7I) for a description of maximum record sizes.)
Tape devices that do not return a BUSY status during tape loading prevent user commands from being held until the device is ready. The user must delay issuing any tape operations until the tape device is ready. This is not a problem for tape devices supplied by Sun Microsystems.
Tape devices that do not report a blank check error at the end of recorded media can cause file positioning operations to fail. Some tape drives, for example, mistakenly report media error instead of blank check error.


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In Kathia Laszlo's May 2nd post, she spoke to the critical need to rethink and expand boundaries within a system to support different ways of working and learning together. The need to create organizational cultures where learning together is the norm has never been so important as it is during this time of increasing complexity and change. The major news story this week is JPMorgan Chase admitting big losses on egregious credit trades. The $2 billion loss was unexpected and CEO Jamie Dimon is now challenged to explain the result of the bank's action in light of his stance on government regulation.
While there is a desire in most organizations to reduce the regulation that provides oversight to ensure ethical behavior and consumer protection, I am not convinced that we can reduce regulation until we improve our capacity to learn, individual and collectively, within our organizations and communities. As Kathia Laszlo noted, learning is not just an individual activity that is focused on acquiring knowledge and skills. Learning is a collective process that helps us make meaning within the context of our lives. When organizations create cultures that support people learning together, through engaging reflection and dialogue, they are less likely to encounter the major unexpected losses such as those reported by JP Morgan Chase or the many others that caught the financial industry by surprise in 2008 and took down the world economy.
We no longer live in a world where these types of actions can be tolerated. Organizations have to be held accountable for the risks they take and especially for their errors in judgment. Given how the financial crisis emerged in 2008, it makes sense to ask what other financial institutions might be engaging in similar egregious trades with risk of major losses? What impact will this have on a fragile economic recovery? How can we ensure what happened in 2008 will not happen again?
Government regulation is not a systemic solution to the problem, but likely needed until organizations create learning cultures that ensure they can take healthy risks and learn from small mistakes. Since Peter Senge published The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization in 1990, I have been focused on bringing the concepts and practices of organizational and transformative learning to graduate students and to organizations. As I was discussing with a group of students taking a course on generative and strategic dialogue with me, dialogic approaches to communication and relational ways of being and working together in organizations are still counter-cultural to the way we do things in the U.S. and many other countries. We need to find ways to change that reality quickly.
We cannot afford to operate in a highly regulated environment. The costs are high and regulation can thwart innovation. Yet, we can't continue to absorb the costs of mistakes that are the result of bad decisions and lack of oversight. I hope you will join me in bringing a greater awareness to what it means to a continuous learner and participate in learning organizations. We all need to develop the competencies and skills to do this work. As Senge noted more than 20 years ago, it is time to give up the illusion that the world is created of separate, unrelated forces. We have seen this proven in many instances now. What Senge wrote two decades ago still holds true today: What we need are learning organizations "where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together."
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Hold on to your riot gear, ladies and gentlemen, because police in New York City are saying that Occupy Wall Street activists deserve credit for helping keep the city safe after Hurricane Sandy. They're not saying that publicly, of course. That would just be too much.
In case you haven't been paying attention, Sandy recovery efforts are on-going in many parts of New York City. In areas like Coney Island and the Rockaways, crime has spiked, mostly from burglaries as the communities have struggled to get back on their feet, but things have been remarkably civil in Red Hook. The New York Post reported why on Wednesday night: "Police sources have credited the drop in crime to an unlikely coalition that included the NYPD, Occupy Wall Street activists, and local nonprofits working together to keep storm victims safe." Said one of these unnamed sources, "This crisis allowed us all to remove the politics and differences we had to do our job, and come to the aid of the people. We all rose to the occasion."
Occupy Sandy isn't just fighting crime. The group of activists that first assembled to fight corporate greed and income inequality has been on the ground providing relief to Sandy victims essentially since day one. They've done everything from collecting and distributing supplies like food, blankets and batteries to coordinating volunteers and rebuilding efforts from each of their six satellite offices across the city. The group has also committed to sticking around for 24 months, so that they can help not just with the clean up effort but also rebuilding, including generating jobs for those that need them.
So this means that the Occupiers and the coppers will play nice now, right? Well, we'll see on Thursday when Occupy will take over Times Square to support the right to organize.
Police, Occupy a Little Surprised They Work So Well Together Post-Sandy
If your only exposure to Occupy Wall Street was last year's occupation, protests, and arrests, the recent cooperation between cops and Occupy


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Guitarist for Metal Band (N, RR, Georgetown)
Date: 2012-03-17, 10:02AM CDT
Reply to: tsd[email protected] [Errors when replying to ads?]
What I am currently listening to: All Shall Perish, As I Lay Dying, All That Remains, Chimera, Lamb of God
What I am into: Old Metallica, Slayer, Obituary, Death, etc
What I am NOT into: Total shit like Dance Gavin Dance, Like Moths to Flames, any kind of piss-poor, sloppy guitar and whiny "my vag is so sensitive to sand" vocals.
** READ THIS ** Take a few seconds and read what I am into. Now imagine you contacting me and eventually calling me, and asking if I would like to play some blues. Or some 60s Rock. Or some Stone Temple Pilots. Or some Nickleback. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME, AUSTIN? NO! The title says "Guitarist for Metal Band", not "Guitarist for chicken fucking, bluesy-riffs, and sonic diarrhea".
About me:
1. I prefer older musicians. I am 31, prefer people my age or older. Sorry kids.
2. I work, live, and get in trouble in N Austin area. Unless you have lined up clean Asian whores for after practice, I am NOT driving to Music Lab. I am not driving farther South than Parmer. Period.
3. NOT looking to make this a career. I want to make bad ass music, play out a couple times a month, possibly smoke weed, and fuck Metal chicks. That is all.
4. Please be able to play your instrument. You know what, I should not even have to write this shit here, but fuck me … this is Austin, so I seriously have to spell this shit out:
* You know how to palm mute and use this skill.
* You have enough gear to be heard over the drums.
* You write your own music that consists of more than an open note speed picked with occasional staccato bullshit slapped on.
* If you play blues, chicken-pick, own or play a Fender, tune to some ridiculous key or schema to hide your shitty skill level, or think that smelling and looking dirty makes you a musician… DO NOT CONTACT ME.
* If you feel that for ANY REASON mommy will not let you out to play, do not contact me.
5. I own a full stack, couple effects (DISTORTION, MOTHER FUCKERS!), several guitars, Zoom H4 if we need to record a practice, and some other shit. You know, the basic stuff to meet up and play some Metal.
6. The last band I was in, the other guys were usually drunk by the end of the 2nd song. THIS IS FUCKING STUPID! You know what their shit sounded like? Four drunk clowns murdering their instruments, and one guy trying to figure out how the fucking song was supposed to be played that day. Not a good time. Please keep your alcoholism and Heroin / Crack addiction to a minimum while we practice.
I am looking for some musicians around my age who like more technical sounding Metal, around my area, who are serious about putting some songs together and playing out a bit. Please have something I can listen to so I have an idea of what you are wanting to do.
If you are another guitarist who just wants to and see if we can put some songs together, I can do that, too. Maybe we can write our shit and then try and find the other guys.
AUSTIN! You have, per capita, the highest "Fuckwit to Musician" ratio on the planet. Why so many flakes? Ninty-Five percent of you weak cow-fuckers cancel because you need to wash your skinny jeans and polish your fake glasses. You idiots are not interested in making music, please don't waste my time and yours with your bullshit and excuses. Thanks.
Against all odds, I hope to find some decent Metal Musicians to hook up with and jam. Keep your fingers crossed.


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Mary Jones had spent three years, 1969-72, working as an applied medical anthropologist in an urban black community in the United States. In order to provide the social science communities with some data on her project, she wrote a series of articles to be published in relevant professional journals. The data included sensitive materials concerning specific epidemiological problems faced by members of the community as well as strategies and tactics used to improve health care delivery by the local community. Before submitting her articles for publication, Jones asked specific members of the community if they would read the papers for comments and criticism. Individuals from the community health center who had been part of the applied project did so and set up a meeting for discussion of the contents of the manuscripts.
The discussion began with several individuals complimenting Jones on her accurate characterization of the local situation and the sensitive way in which she addressed their health care problems and ways they chose to solve some of these. Several moments of silence passed after these initial remarks. Then an elder asked Jones why she had not given the accurate name of the community health center where much of this activity took place. Immediately, someone else asked why she had not given the accurate name of the town where the center was located. A third person asked why there were no names given for the people at the center and in the community who were involved in the project and in the "struggle to improve health care for our people."
Jones countered with explanations regarding anthropological conventions which specified the use of pseudonyms in certain types of anthropological reporting, specifically if there was any chance that individuals or a community might be harmed. She provided some examples of instances in a nearby town where people had been harmed because the actual name of the town and the names of people there had been published in a scientific report. The participants at the meeting told her that she should use her own judgment in the final analysis, but they felt that even if she could not see that using the name of the health center might help them, at least she should name some of the people who had helped Jones and her students during their three years of work, even though Jones and her students were on the applied project to help the community.
Jones's Dilemma: Should she defer to the community health center members' desire that she publish the name of the health center, the town in which the health center was located, an&or the names of individuals who had asked or given permission for their names to be published (during the meeting described above)? Or, should she retain the use of pseudonyms throughout her papers?
Jones's Decision
Jones decided not to publish the actual name of the health center or the name of the town where she had worked. Her rationale was that, although the articles in question contained little in the way of "sensitive" materials, future publications might since such materials were in her records. She therefore chose to protect the anonymity of the community. She did, however, acknowledge the support and assistance of specific community people (by name) in footnotes to the articles.


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The Jewish Side of James Gandolfini
Italian-American actor James Gandolfini, who died at 51, while not Jewish, showed a deep affinity with Jews. His most iconic role, Tony Soprano, in the award-winning mafia TV series "The Sopranos," was engaged in a very Jewish business. There were many Jewish gangsters and criminals both in film and reality. These included crime czar Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg) in "The Godfather: Part II" (1974) – a fictional character, based heavily on real-life gangster Meyer Lansky.
One of Tony's closest confidants was Herman "Hesh" Rabkin, a retired music industry producer who knew Tony's late father. Tony often relied on Hesh for advice (and occasionally money) and, in return, he was one of the few characters not to meet an untimely death.
Brutal but fragile, Tony struggled with the emotional demands of being the head of a family, in both senses of that term. Consequently, he attended regular sessions with a psychoanalyst. Although he chooses another Italian-American, Dr. Jennifer Melfi (Lorraine Bracco), as his therapist, he is very aware of the profession's Jewish provenance. As his disgusted mother Livia (Nancy Marchand) bluntly put it, "Everybody knows that it's a racket for the Jews."
Tony's daughter, Meadow, was played by a Jewish actress (Jamie-Lynn Sigler). When Meadow begins to date a fellow student at Columbia University, who is half-black and half-Jewish, Tony has much to say about it, but expresses no annoyance at his Jewishness.
Outside of "The Sopranos," Gandolfini played Tony Baldessari in Sidney Lumet's "A Stranger Among Us" (1992), a police drama that unravels within New York City's Hasidic community. He teamed up with the Jewish director again in 1996 for "Night Falls on Manhattan." In between those two films he appeared in Barry Sonnenfeld's "Get Shorty" (1995).
But perhaps his most Jewish role came in Spike Jonze's "Where the Wild Things Are" (2009), an adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic illustrated children's story.
For more, go to Haaretz
Gandolfini, whose performance as Tony Soprano made him a household name and ushered in a new era of American television drama, had been scheduled to attend the closing of the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily on Saturday.
He may have suffered a heart attack, Mara Mikialian, the spokeswoman for the HBO network that produced The Sopranos, told Reuters.
He was taken from his Rome hotel to the city's Umberto I general hospital where staff found his heart had already stopped at about 11 p.m. local time (2100 GMT), a hospital spokesman said.
Since "The Sopranos" ended its six-season run in June 2007, Gandolfini appeared in a number of big-screen roles, including "Zero Dark Thirty," a film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and the crime drama "Killing Them Softly."
At the time of his death, he had been working on an upcoming HBO series "Criminal Justice" and had two motion pictures due out next year.
"We're all in shock and feeling immeasurable sadness at the loss of a beloved member of our family," HBO said in a statement. "He was a special man, a great talent, but more importantly, a gentle and loving person who treated everyone, no matter their title or position, with equal respect."
Gandolfini began his career as a stage actor in New York and went on to earn a Tony nomination for his role in the original 2009 Broadway cast of the black comedy "God of Carnage."
He shared Tony Soprano's Italian-American heritage and New Jersey roots, but the actor was known for a reserved demeanour off-camera and generally shied away from publicity.
In the HBO series, Gandolfini created a gangster different from any previously seen in American television or film. He was capable of killing enemies with his own hands but was prone to panic attacks. He loved his wife, Carmela, played by Edie Falco, and was a doting father, but he carried on a string of affairs.
He regularly saw a therapist, portrayed by Lorraine Bracco, to work out his anxiety problems and issues with his mother.
By the start of the show's final season, Gandolfini suggested he was ready to move on to more gentle roles once his TV mobster days were over.
"I'm too tired to be a tough guy or any of that stuff anymore," he said. "We pretty much used all that up in this show."
The program, which earned Gandolfini three Emmy Awards as best lead actor in a drama series, was considered by many critics the finest drama to have aired on U.S. television.
The series was a major factor in establishing HBO, a pay-cable network once focused on presentations of feature films, as a powerhouse of original dramatic television and in shifting the kind of sophisticated storytelling once reserved for the big screen to TV.
The show won the Emmy as best drama series in 2004 and again in 2007 after its final season. The series concluded with a final episode that strongly suggested Tony was about to be murdered before abruptly ending mid-scene, cutting from a shot of Gandolfini's face to a blank screen.
His role paved the way for a parade of popular prime-time shows built around profoundly flawed characters and anti-heroes, from "Dexter" and "Breaking Bad" to "Mad Men" and "Nurse Jackie."
David Chase, creator of "The Sopranos," paid tribute to his former star in a statement remembering him as "a genius" and "one of the greatest actors of this or any time."
"A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes. I remember telling him many times, 'You don't get it. You're like Mozart.' There would be silence at the other end of the phone," Chase recounted.
Actress Marcia Gay Harden, his co-star in "God of Carnage," saluted Gandolfini as a "great partner, masterful actor and a loving, generous human being." Susan Sarandon, who played his wife in the 2005 romantic comedy "Romance and Cigarettes," remembered him in a Twitter posting as "One of the sweetest, funniest, most generous actors I've ever worked with."
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie hailed Gandolfini as "a fine actor, a Rutgers alum and a true Jersey guy."
Gandolfini is due to appear on the big screen next year, playing the love interest of comic actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the film "Enough Said" and a role in a New York crime drama called "Animal Rescue." Both are set for U.S. release by News Corp-owned studio Fox Searchlight.
Gandolfini preceded his career as a performer by working as a truck driver, bouncer and nightclub manager in New York City before he went to an acting class with a friend and got hooked.
"I'd also never been around actors before," he told Time magazine, "and I said to myself, 'These people are nuts; this is kind of interesting.'"
Born in Westwood, New Jersey, Gandolfini was raised in a working-class, Italian-American family by a father who was a bricklayer and high school custodian and a mother who worked in a school cafeteria.
In an interview on the television program "Inside the Actors Studio," he said his parents spoke Italian in the home when they did not want the children to understand them.
"So they didn't teach it to my sisters or myself," he said.
Gandolfini had a son, Michael, with his first wife, Marcy Wudarski, whom he divorced in 2002. In 2008, he married model Deborah Lin, who gave birth to a daughter, Liliana, in 2012.
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