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August 30, 2012
In Celebration Of: The At Home Card
Blog Entry by craneandco
There was a time when the honeymoon was a grand adventure that often involved steamer trunks, dressing for the dining car and plenty of newly acquired couples' stationery to keep in touch with friends and family from afar.
We like to think the latter accouterment is still in favor, even though the honeymoon has become a less extravagant post-wedding affair for most newlyweds. Whether a couple indulges in a two-week African safari or a weekend getaway to the Vineyard, there is one piece of wedding stationery we still find quite charming: the at-home card.
Traditionally, a couple would send at-home cards before leaving on a honeymoon that would keep them away oftentimes for a month, sometimes longer. Even though honeymoons are shorter today, an at-home card is still a lovely way to make family and friends aware of your new address.
Included with the wedding invitation or marriage announcements, at-home cards are small enclosure cards that match the card stock, lettering style and ink color of your invitations. They alert people of the address at which you will be residing and the date after which you will be there (most couples use the date on which they return from their honeymoon). Many couples now include their phone numbers and email addresses on their at-home cards.
The wording for at-home cards sent with announcements is different from the wording for at-home cards sent with the invitations. At-home cards sent with announcements show your names together as "Mr. and Mrs." Since you are already married when they are sent. When sent with invitations, your names are not used since you are not yet married and cannot use "Mr. and Mrs."
While the principal purpose of at-home cards is to let people know your new address, when sent with announcements they can also let people know that you have chosen to continue to use your maiden name. Your name appears on the first line, followed your husband's name on line two. The remainder of the card reads as it normally would. Since you could have presented yourself as "Mrs." bud did not, it will be assumed that you are still using your maiden name.
At-home cards are not gift-request cards and should never be interpreted as such.
Instead, think of at-home cards like the change-of-address cards you might send when you move. They simply announce your new address and are a great convenience for anyone who wants to keep in touch with you — which will certainly give you a chance to use that new personalized stationery.
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I wanted them to have another treat, too, for when they arrived so she knows how excited we are to have her. Sam's a girly girl and loves anything with icing, so I thought these strawberry cupcakes would completely delight her. And, after our trip to the Strawberry Patch we had to find a way to use all of our strawberries...
Fresh Strawberry
with Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
New! Printable Recipes, here.
1 white cake (mix or homemade)
1 cup of strawberries, diced
1 drop of red food coloring
1 stick of butter, softened
3 ounces of cream cheese, softened
4 cups of powdered sugar
1 cup of strawberries, diced
whole strawberries, garnish
Prepare cake as directed then mix in diced strawberries. Pour batter into paper-lined cupcake tins. Bake as directed. Let cool.
For frosting, mix together butter and cream cheese until smooth, then add powdered sugar and strawberries. Mix on medium for 3-4 minutes. When cupcakes are cool, frost generously and top with a strawberry. Refrigerate.
I added just a drop of red food coloring to the batter because otherwise the baked strawberries make a brown colored cupcake.
Emma woke up from her nap just in time to sample... approved!

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The St. Louis Rams came out firing in the 1st quarter of last night's Monday Night Football matchup with the New York Giants, and everything looked promising for the young Rams playing without their running back Steven Jackson and receiver Danny Amendola. What looked like a certain touchdown, as the Rams marched into the red zone with their no huddle offense, soon became a terrible display of amateur hour by Giants defenders Jacquian Williams and Deon Grant, who both flopped and faked injuries to stop the clock.
To be fair, Williams and Grant fell to the ground at the same time, and Williams immediately jumped back up once he realized that Grant had sold his ailment with Oscar-winning precision. Then the Giants held the Rams to just a field goal and a strange tempo was set for the rest of the game. Who says that life is fair?
(Video via Sports Grid)
And check out the game's other peculiar highlight on the reacharound…


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Unity For Foundation necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 24 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
Unity For Foundation
We are a one year old foundation registered in Washington D.C. The Unity For Foundation was created by four average individuals that believe the world has unlivable and wanted to create a mass global media campaign to solve the world's major issues.
We are the first fully transparent philanthropy that is concert and media driven.Our mission is to create an annual multi-country mega concert to raise global awareness about major global causes starting with the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
We will be launching alongside the concert an open source, self regulated, social network to empower individuals around the world and give them a voice in order to create change in their communities.
We are a unique and innovative group of people that are doing this because it needs to be done. Our backgrounds/religions include American, Chinese, Arab, Jewish, Christian, and Muslims. We were four original founders but now we are many, thus, the need to re brand.
We are a peace oriented organization, trying to promote peace and awareness through mass media. Our model is all about sustainability and transparency, thus, we are changed the way philanthropies are operated.
Our target audience is more of a global audience of baby boomers and younger i.e. 45 and younger. Our audience is more technology competent, personally driven and wanting to create change. They are most probably active on the various social networks, they get their news form the web, and are individualistic etc... We believe the major part of our audience will be in the 16-25 year old range (students).
We don't have much requirements, except that we want the designs to be unique, surprising, show maturity, eye catching, and will stick in people's mind. We want it to represent the uniqueness of what we are doing, the empowerment of individuals, the all encompassing/all inclusive vision, and the promotion of peace.
We have just a couple of limitations, doves and the peace sign have been overdone. One thing you might explore is DNA, the joint DNA of waring factions, how we are all similar in DNA. Please explore all the colors and fonts available.
We would like a logo, with the slogan "by the people, for the people". The stationary we are requesting is business cards, letter heads, envelopes, and an ink stamp.
We have uploaded 2 documents that were published and presented in a media agenda setting conference in Zurich this past November. They will five you a more detailed explanation of what we are doing.
Other than that, we want everyone involved to have fun with this and be extremely creative. Please remember that we are concert and media driven.


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Right Hand McClain needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 65 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
Audio visual company (focused on custom residential/commercial installations) requires reinvented business identity.
Need it to POP and will translate to mutliple mediums (forms, websites, clothes. etc with flavor and style.
Pacific Services - Your Primary Audio & Video Resource
Company looking for new direction, still professional and polished. Customer oriented company catering to the specific needs of its clients. Previous design included paradise theme. Open to abstract design or acronym usage. Color suggestions cool blue hues, etc).
Target audience - Affluent and technology savvy
Company will be releasing new look and direction in the new year. Company does custom audio and video installations in commercial and residential properties. We also do retail sales of A/V electronic equiptment.
interesting in seeing 3d designs and/or suspended
- Sharp and Professional
- Final file formats in all of the following: JPEG, PNG, TIFF and Adobe Illustrator ai files
No A/V equitpment or electronics
- No cartoony cheesy stuff
- no people or face images
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Apartment for rent from EUR 86/day in grindelwaldName/Address: Chalet Abendrot (Utoring)
Image disclaimer: It is the responsibility of the hotel chain and/or the individual property to ensure the accuracy of the photos displayed. Dream Home Shop is not responsible for any inaccuracies in the photos.
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Interior1-room apartment 21 m2: living/dining room with 2 beds, cable TV and radio. Kitchenette (oven). Shower/WC. No view. Please note: non-smokers only. Maximum 1 pet/ dog allowed.
OutsideResidence "Chalet Abendrot (Utoring)". In the centre. In the house: WiFi, table tennis, billiard table, lift. Communal covered parking (extra). Shop 400 m, restaurant 10 m, bus stop 20 m, railway station 800 m, indoor swimming pool 600 m. Golf course 2 km, sports centre 600 m, mountain railway 180 m. "Latino" restaurant in the residence. The chalet-style apartment building has a room for young people, a playroom, a large garage (parking space CHF 84/week, reservation on arrival). Steam bath and indoor pool available in the neighbouring building for only CHF 25/week. Modern-rustic, luxurious apartments many with a generous balcony or terrace with wonderful views over the mountains. Please note: garage height 2.09 m, max. weight 2000 kg/car. Warning : for bookings of less than 6 nights, cleaning and linen will be charged. Linen: CHF 20/person. Cleaning: 1-room apartment CHF 60, 2-room apartment CHF 75, 3-room apartment CHF 85, 4-room apartment CHF 110.
- Pets allowed
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Jaco needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 18 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
I need a header for my wordpress based Amsoil Dealer website.
Do a quick search and you will see most all Amsoil Dealer sites are hard on the eyes.
I need my site to be Nascar Style, sexy, yet very professional.
Perhaps I should be asking for a wordpress template here, you be the judge.My visitor will be mostly male and range from Do It Yourself types to the every day driver.
- I need a header logo, Perhaps a GIF that has moving parts to draw attention.
- Needs to be modern, web 3.0 type stuff
- no hard edges with solid plain colors.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Middle-Age Risk Factors Trigger Larger Lifetime Risk of Heart Disease
While a persons risk of heart disease may be low in the next five or ten years, the lifetime risk for getting it could still be very high, according to a new study published in the most recent issue of New England Journal of Medicine.
"Early life decisions we make can have a significant impact on the rest of our lives, and heart healthy choices are no different. The risk factors we develop in younger and middle ages are going to determine our heart disease risk across our lifetime," said lead study author Dr. Jarett Berry, assistant professor at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in a statement.
Through past studies researchers have long determined that risk factors are early signs of heart disease across gender, race, and time, but the idea of lifetime risk is of significance, and could eventually alter how heart disease and risk prevention is treated.
"If we want to reduce cardiovascular disease, we need to prevent the development of risk factors in the first place," Berry stated. "What determines your heart disease risk when you are 70 or 80 is what your risk factors are when you're 40.
According to results of longitudinal studies over the past 50 years, researchers found that people with two or more major risk factors in middle-age had significantly higher lifetime risks for cardiovascular death, myrocardial infarction, and stroke in their lifetime.
Berry's experiment consisted of 254,000 participants, of both genders, of black and white ethnicity. Ages of the subjects were 45,55,65, and 75 years. It was confirmed that those with multiple risk factors had much higher lifetime risks for heart disease, by ten times the rate of those without risk factors.
Researchers also learned that the drop in cardiovascular disease rates over the past several decades, is indicative of the prevalence of the risk factors, as opposed to effects from better treatment.
Investigators also confirmed that the long-term risk for heart disease within each risk factor group hasn't shifted.
"Regardless of where you were born or when you were born, the effects of risk factors on lifetime risk for heart disease are about the same," concluded Berry.


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DigitalID needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 55 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
We offer Identification cards, Lanyards, ID Card Badge holders along with a wide range of ID card printers.
We provide an ID card design service, and a bureau printing service, in addition to offering all of the equipment and consumables needed to produce your own.
We have also developed our own software suite "Imagebase" which allows easy management of staff or membership ID card requirements, and "VisitorPass" which allows institutions to manage visitors in a secure and controlled manner.
We are the UK Market Leader, and need a website the represents us as "the professional choice".
Business to Business. Corporate.
We will be providing very regular feedback on this project.
We would like a clean, crisp corporate look to the site that looks professional, and trustworthy. The site is an ecommerce site, and as such, must evoke feelings of trust and security in the visitor.
Here is a link to a zip file that contains all the logo's required for this work, anything else required, simply ask, or take it directly from our site.
The Checklist
In order to assist you in every way possible, we have produced a very simple "checklist" of required elements for our site, whilst we don't insist that you include them all, the designer that makes the best use of them, will be most likely to win.
The checklist is included in the above "logo" zip file as an XL spreadsheet.
Sites We Like:
Both very clean designs, whilst it may not be possible to achieve this with Digital ID, we would like to aim in this direction.
Whilst we do not want to dictate your palette, we do require that you use our current logo, and so the site must fit with this (see attached).
We will require layouts for the following pages:
• A home page design which should give easy access to the site main features (keep it simple!)
• Product Category Listing
• Product Page
Initially a single layout will be fine, we will then ask to see others to decide the winner.
Pages to design
In order to make it a fair contest, and as simple as possible to judge, we would like you to design the following pages:
Home Page
Product Page
Category Page
(We require all .psd / .AI files)
General guidelines:
• Use our logo
• Choose colors that fit the logo
• Use standard web fonts (Arial, Tahoma, verdana etc etc.)
• Try to keep enough spacing between elements


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Quote from: Harold Wilson on March 13, 2006, 08:07:19 PMI can't wait to hear though... I'm checking my email inbox every half an hour. Seriously! hahaha.
I can't wait to hear though... I'm checking my email inbox every half an hour.
steve112 - why do you think people received the email in the first place? I received it even though they've had my application since mid-September, so I don't think the reason for the email was a lack of time to review my application. I also have a gut feeling that receiving the email means at least a waitlist or better (I pray it does!). It doesn't make much sense for them to make people wait a few more weeks after sending them the email only to reject them. I think the email is a good sign, but of course I can't prove it...
Not for nothing but when I called on 02-28, they told me I was not offered a spot in the upcoming class of Fall 2006, however, here we are 03-16 and I have not received my ding letter yet. Are they going to mail it?!!! If I didn't call over 2 weeks ago I would still be holding on to false hope, so now instead I am wondering where the hell is my ding letter, I applied mid October. Are they saving postage because I got the decision over the phone?
dinged. this was the dream school. a short-lived dream, i guess. i called last week after reading some posts that said to try it, and the nice lady on the other end told me apologetically that they couldn't offer me admission at this time. still haven't gotten the letter though.
anybody's ding letter include info in it regarding transfering? Mine did-


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Volume 37
The Skeptics UFO Newsletter
Philip J. Klass
January 1, 1996
This volume is available as a PDF file. Download »
Newly Discovered Anomalies Challenge "Alien Autopsy" Authenticity
Small filmstrips which "Alien Autopsy" movie distributor Ray Santilli provided to his prestigious American "authenticity investigator" Bob Shell—which Shell believed were samples of the "original" film acquired from the former military cameraman who allegedly took the movies—are really copy/duplicates, according to a very experienced cinema expert—Clive Tobin.
Tobin, who worked for more than 20 years in a motion picture processing laboratory and now is president of Tobin Cinema Systems in Seattle, is also a field investigator for MUFON. Tobin's suspicions arose when he saw a short filmstrip on the Fox TV show—similar to the two strips which Santilli supplied to Shell, who is editor of Shutterbug magazine. Tobin revealed his suspicions that the Fox filmstrip was a copy/duplicate in a short article published in the October issue of the MUFON UFO Journal. The subtle, technically complex details that Tobin observed convinced him that the Fox filmstrip was a copy that had been made using a Bell & Howell "C-printer," which was not introduced until around 1960, or possibly a model JA-printer which preceded it by several years. When SUN, which has been carrying on an extensive information exchange with Shell, learned that he had not seen Tobin's article, we supplied him with a copy, which led to direct communications between the two men.
To appreciate the importance of Tobin's discovery it is necessary to review highlights of the (alleged) cameraman's tale—as provided by Santilli. On June 2, 1947, Santilli's alleged cameraman (SAC) says he was dispatched to the Roswell Army Air Field, then driven 160 miles west to near Socorro, where he filmed a crashed saucer and its four "freaks," three of whom were still alive. Then he was flown to Wright Field (now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) where he spent "three weeks working on [filming] the debris." In early July, he was sent to Ft. Worth where he filmed autopsies on two of the "freaks." [SUN Note: Seemingly, the UFOnaut killed in the crash was kept "on ice" for a month until the second one died. The third and fourth were still alive.]
Santili's Alleged Cameraman's (SAC's) Incredible Tale
Then, in SAC's own words: "After filming, I had several hundred reels. I separated problem reels which required special attention in processing. These I would do later. The first batch was sent through to Washington, and I processed the remainder a few days later. Once the remaining reels had been processed, I contacted Washington to arrange [for] collection of the final batch. Incredibly, they never came to collect or arrange transportation for them. I called many times and then just gave up. The footage has remained with me ever since. In May of 1949, I was asked to film the third autopsy." [Emphasis added.]
Seemingly in the spring of 1949, top Air Force/Pentagon officials remembered that SAC had filmed the first two UFOnaut autopsies so they selected him to shoot the third—in Washington, according to Santilli. Yet they completely forgot that major portions of the first two autopsy films were MISSING (because SAC had retained them for "special processing") so nobody thought to ask SAC to bring them along when he came to Washington to film the third autopsy. AND IT NEVER OCCURRED TO SANTILLI'S (ALLEGED) CAMERAMAN TO BRING THE ROLLS OF 1947 AUTOPSY FILM ALONG WHEN HE WENT TO WASHINGTON.
If the small filmstrips which Santilli supplied to Shell and to Fox are from the SAME footage that Santilli (allegedly) acquired from SAC, then the autopsy films are COPIES made sometime AFTER THE LATE 1950s WHEN THE JA AND C-PRINTERS BECAME AVAILABLE, according to Tobin. This raises numerous questions.
For example, if the film Santilli acquired is a copy made on a printer that did not become available until the mid/late 1950s, then SAC's tale—as related by Santilli—can not possibly be true. Even if Tobin were wrong and the copies were made in 1947 on an earlier model printer, how was SAC able to covertly steal so many rolls of super-secret film without being caught? And why did SAC wait 45 years before trying to sell the film directly to an obscure British film distributor whom he had just chanced to meet, rather than working covertly through an agent to sell the film to a major TV network or Hollywood producer? Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but not all strange tales are true.
Shell Challenges Tobin But Later Concedes He Might Be Right
When Shell participated in an "Encounters Forum" on CompuServe in late August, following the first showing of "Alien Autopsy" on the Fox network, he said: "I'm the guy in charge of investigating the film [for Santilli]. I've got lots of info that isn't public yet. I have the cameraman's statement, which I have done some research on....I have a piece of the actual film here on my desk." Then Shell volunteered: "Based on my investigation, I give a 95% scientific probability that the film was manufactured, exposed and processed in 1947. That's my professional opinion about the film." [Emphasis added.]
In mid-November, when Shell began his direct dialogue with Tobin, Shell sharply chal-lenged Tobin's conclusion that the filmstrip shown on the Fox "Alien Autopsy" TV show was not a "camera-original" film. In a Fax/letter dated Nov. 16, Shell said that the three-frame strip of film mounted in a 35 mm slide mount and shown briefly in the Fox broadcast "has been examined by experts at Kodak and at the George Eastman House Museum and they have concluded that it is original camera film which was reversal processed, not a duplicate or print. My two strips, which are generally similiar, have been examined by a number of 'old timers' who were working in the 40s as well as by film experts and also pronounced as camera originals." [Emphasis added.]
During the ensuing dialogue, Tobin sent Shell a sample of film processed on a C-Printer, so he could compare its tiny characteristic "fingerprints" near the sprocket holes with the two filmstrips which Santilli had provided. Barely a month later, on Dec. 17, Shell posted a public memo in the MUFON section of CompuServe, saying that as a result of data supplied by Tobin, he was "disturbed and puzzled....My puzzlement stems from the fact that every expert other than Mr. Tobin who has examined the film is convinced that it is camera-original film."
However, Shell reminded readers that Santilli "initially said he had been given 22 reels of 'release prints' [i.e., copies] and one reel of negative film. Whether he just assumed that these were 'release prints' or whether he was told this by the cameraman is a question which must be resolved. Ray is in bed with the flu right now, but as soon as he is up and around I will address this question with him. We have all been working on the assumption that this was camera-original material because all of the experts pronounced it as such. If it now turns out that all of these experts were wrong, and Mr. Tobin alone is correct, we will have to go all the way back to square one on the authentication process. Obviously, dating of a 'release print' will not prove the date of the original, and will not satisfy the skeptics." [Emphasis added.]
Who Were Shell's "Experts" Who Assessed The Film?
Recalling the claim made by Shell in his Nov. 16 letter to Tobin that his two filmstrips had "been examined by a number of 'old timers' who were working in the 40s as well as by film experts and also pronounced as camera-originals," SUN asked Shell to provide the names and addresses of the "experts you yourself consulted and indicate what material you provided to them to facilitate their accurate assessment." Shell responded: "These experts were the ones FOX showed
the filmstrips to, the experts that Phil Mantle [British UFO Research Assn.] showed them to, the experts TF-1 [French TV] brought in, those used by Italian, German, Rumanian, Hong Kong, etc. TV networks."
Tobin also questioned whether the 16 mm. filmstrip samples had sprocket holes along both edges ("double-perf") or only along one edge ("single-perf"). The Bell & Howell Filmo camera (widely employed in the 1940s by military cameramen) could not use "single-perf" film because the camera had a double-claw sprocket. By a curious coincidence, BOTH filmstrips that Santilli provided to Shell, AND the one shown by Fox, HAD ONE EDGE TORN OFF, MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL IF IT WAS "SINGLE-PERF" OR "DOUBLE- PERF."
Shell Offers Two Possible Explanations For Missing Edges
In Shell's Dec. 17 CompuServe memo, he acknowledged that this key issue cannot be resolved because "one whole edge of the film is torn off" in both of his filmstrip samples and the one shown by Fox. "The simple explanation is that this film was damaged in projection, or in the camera, and this accounts for the tearing. The more sinister explanation would be that this side of the film was intentionally torn off to hide the fact that this was 'single-perf' film." [Emphasis added.] [SUN doubts that Santilli would resort to such fraud and suggests another possible explanation: Extraterrestrial microbes that penetrated the camera during the autopsies, and which like to eat movie film but get full after eating one edge.]
Shell added that the "film scraps" which Santilli provided to British TV producer John Purdy [reportedly] were all "double-perf" and, Shell said, "John's film pieces have been pronounced camera-originals by the experts he has submitted them to." But Shell added: "John has quite a bit of film, but has not been willing to let me examine it at any length. I have had only a brief look at it."
In the wake of these discrepancies, SUN recently asked Shell if he now would like to revise his "95% probability" estimate that the "Alien Autopsy" film is authentic. Shell responded he "would today give a high probability, something like 80% or so, that the original film was manufactured, exposed and processed prior to 1957 [sic]" instead of his former "95% probability that the film was manufactured, exposed and processed in 1947."
Santilli's "Double-Talk" About Authenticating His Film
Television viewers in the Seattle area had the opportunity to see and hear "Alien Autopsy's" Ray Santilli when he participated in an hour-long talk show, via satellite link, on station KOMO on Nov. 12. The show was hosted by a somewhat skeptical Ken Schram. At one point in the program, Santilli acknowledged that his company has "made some money" from the sale of TV rights and home videos. But he added: "We are not into any kind of profit and we won't be until the film is proved to be genuine."
When host Schram and skeptical panelists asked why he had not accepted the offer of Eastman Kodak to have its scientists evaluate a several-inch-long sample of the autopsy film, Santilli replied: "Film with image—and not leader tape—has been given to Fox and to Bob Shell, who's an independent film expert. Kodak has film. The film has been given to the English broadcasters, to the French broadcasters...and if we keep giving away film there will soon be very little left." (The 22 rolls of film Santilli says he acquired would be 2,200 ft. in length.)
During the closing moments of the KOMO-TV show, host Schram asked Santilli "why you haven't gone to every length to get this film authenticated....Do you feel you've done everything you can and should?" Santilli responded: "I've given it to the broadcasters and I've asked them to
investigate it. They've got the money and the resources to do it." (Earlier Santilli claimed that "Millions of dollars world-wide has been spent on investigating the film and the film still maintains its integrity.") When Schram asked, "Why not submit this to Kodak?" Santilli replied, "It has been submitted to Kodak by the broadcasters."
Eastman Kodak's Response To Santilli's Claim
SUN decided to check out Santilli's claim with Kodak on Nov. 30 and talked with Jim Blamphin in the company's public affairs office. He said that the only film that had been submitted to Kodak was a "two- inch section of solid white leader, which serves to thread a film into a projector, whose edge-coding indicates it was manufactured in 1927, 1947 or 1967." Blamphin said that Kodak's British affiliate had offered to conduct a detailed chemical analysis to determine approximately when the "Alien Autopsy" film had been manufactured and processed if Santilli would provide a 10-in. strip of film and pay $8,000. "But we've not heard further from him," Blamphin said.
When we informed Blamphin that Shell had earlier told SUN that a Kodak movie film specialist in Rochester, named Tony Amato, had agreed to test the Santilli film without charge if Shell would provide a two- inch long sample from the autopsy film [SUN #35/Sept. 1995], Blamphin said he would talk to Amato to confirm such an offer. Several days later, Blamphin confirmed Amato's offer.
Shell told SUN during our Sept. 7 interview that Santilli had agreed to provide the two-inch strip of autopsy film. But when SUN next talked with Shell, on Oct. 6, he reported that Santilli's financial partner, a German named Volker Spielberg—who, reportedly, had stored all of the original autopsy film in a Swiss vault—had flatly refused to provide the two-inch strip that Kodak needed. Shell explained that because Spielberg had put up the money to acquire the film, he "owned it" [SUN #36/Nov. 1995].
When Santilli had appeared on a British radio talk show on Aug. 21, a panelist said he hoped the original film was safely stored "in a big vault somewhere." Santilli responded: "Yeah, I was going to say, Switzerland in a safe....Some went back to the cameraman. And some is still with us." Seemingly, Santilli had a sufficient surplus of film such that he opted to return some of it to the 80+ year old cameraman. Yet it never occurred to him to send a several-inch-long-strip of film to Bob Shell to submit to Eastman Kodak for chemical analysis.
SUN Erred On The Vintage Of Autopsy Room Telephone
The wall-type telephone seen in the "autopsy room" of the Santilli films is not the Type 500 (Henry Dreyfuss) design introduced in 1956, as reported in the last (November) issue of SUN, which would have been hard proof that the film is a hoax. A close-up enlargement of the wall-telephone, provided to SUN by Bob Shell, shows it to be a Type 350 which was introduced around 1946-47. A photo of this model, published in the Autumn 1947 issue of the Pacific Telephone Magazine carries the caption: "New wall-type combined telephone set developed by Bell Labs and manufactured by Western Electric..."
But the "new wall-type" telephone shown does not have a coiled cord, like the one which appears in the Santilli film. SUN, having learned the hard way that authors of books on the history of the telephone are not always 100% accurate, has spent many hours in the Library of Congress examining publications of the late 1940s and early 1950s, including Telephony: The Journal of the Telephone Industry, to determine when coiled cords became "standard equipment." An advertisement by Western Electric (AT&T;'s manufacturing subsidiary), in the Feb. 19, 1949, issue of Telephony, showed its then-current Type 300 desk-set telephone without
a coiled cord. The July 1953 issue of the National Geographic magazine carried an AT&T; ad with three photos showing persons using telephones. None of the phones had a coiled cord.
If the Santilli film is authentic, then the wall-telephone was a brand new model with coiled cord which had been installed quite recently. However, examination of its coiled cord reveals that some coils are stretched, or "baggy." An advertisement by Koiled Kords Inc., which manufactured such items, appearing in the Oct. 22, 1949, issue of Telephony, claims its cord "always retracts, never gets baggy or loose no matter how often it is stretched." Because the Santilli film coiled cord appears extremely baggy and stretched, this strongly suggests that the autopsy room wall-phone and its coiled cord were many decades old, not brand new, when the Santilli film was shot. (Old-model phones can be purchased from antique phone dealers, such as Phoneco Inc., Galesville, Wisc.)
Hopkins Discovers "New" UFO Abduction Patterns
If you ever experience a UFO abduction, don't be surprised if you find yourself in a special uniform helping the UFOnauts with their routine chores, according to Budd Hopkins, chief guru of the UFO abduction cult. When Hopkins spoke at the Fifth New Hampshire MUFON UFO Conference in Portsmouth, Sept. 9-10, he reported his recent discovery of a pattern in which UFOnauts "co-opt" their "abductees," forcing them to assist their captors.
For example, Hopkins cited one petite woman from Connecticut who "remembered being inside a UFO. She is wearing a blue, skin-tight uniform without buttons, without zippers and she doesn't know how she got into it. And she's with the Aliens and they instruct her telepathically what she has to do....She walks out of the craft, which is on the ground, and there was a car that had stopped. And she walked over to the car and sitting in the car is an absolutely terrified large man, an African-American man, and he is obviously paralyzed. She takes him out of the car, zip....And he is looking at her with terror—she's a tiny woman. And she leads him up to the entrance of the craft and that was it. That's what she had to do. Now, while she's doing that, she's upset with herself [asking] 'Why am I doing this?'"
Another such "co-option" case described by Hopkins involved a woman "who remembered being in a craft wearing a blue, skin-tight uniform—very thin—and she didn't know how she got into it....And she knows what she has to do. She walks into one room of the craft and there are four or five naked humans, looking terrified....And she makes a gesture and takes one of them and leads them from one room to another. And that's it. She's done her job. And she is terrified, angry with herself because they [humans] are looking at her with fear and hatred."
Hopkins revealed that "the very first person I ever heard this from—from her own personal experience—was Linda Cortile. It could almost be called the Linda Cortile Syndrome." [Linda "Cortile" Napolitano first attracted Hopkins' interest when she claimed she was "beamed up" from her Manhattan apartment to a UFO hovering overhead and Hopkins later received letters from alleged observers to confirm Linda's tale. See SUN #17/#18/#19; Sept./Nov. 1992, Jan. 1993]. Hopkins declined to provide any details on Linda's "co-option," saying these would be disclosed in his forthcoming book, to be called: "Eagle's End: The Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abduction." Hopkins offered no hint as to when his new book would appear.
Hopkins Offers New Theory To Explain Childhood Abductions
Hopkins' earlier theory that the purpose behind UFO abductions was to obtain female ova and male sperm to create a hybrid species did not explain the claims of UFO abductions during childhood, before the subjects had reached puberty. Now Hopkins has devised a new hypothesis to fill this void: UFOnauts "are studying the way humans form relationships with other humans from childhood on."
Hopkins explained that his new theory is based on about a dozen cases in which two per-sons, typically of opposite sex, meet as adults and find that the other party looks familiar. Each, reportedly, recalls how the other looked in childhood—even though the two lived in different towns, sometimes even in different countries. Eventually, Hopkins reported, "they will begin to recall, through hypnosis and normal recollections, that in fact they were abducted together when they were little children, from time to time, and again and again." But instead of being placed on tables for extraction of sperm/ova, the two "were brought together, left alone and allowed to interact—as if the UFO occupants are studying the way humans form relationships with other humans."
Hopkins revealed that the very first time he ever heard of such repeated abductions from childhood was from Linda Cortile. Hopkins added that Linda's tale "will be gone into in my book. It adds credibility and a very different story to her recollections. Amazing credibility."
In Hopkins' closing remarks he admitted that "there are people in mental hospitals because they had abduction experiences and reported them to the wrong people. There are suicides. There are all kinds of bad things that have happened." Hopkins offered the following advice to persons who believe they have suffered UFO abductions: "The first thing is NOT to dwell on it all the time—because life goes by."
Abduction Therapist Boylan Seeks To Regain License
The Sacramento (Calif.) Superior Court will soon consider the request of prominent UFO abduction therapist Richard J. Boylan that it overturn the action of the California Board of Psychology which last August revoked Boylan's psychotherapist license [SUN #35/Sept. 1995]. Boylan, who in late 1993 established the Academy of Certified Close Encounter Therapists (ACCET) to train other psychotherapists in how to treat "abductees," claims he himself has experienced a UFO abduction.
The Psychology Board's action was prompted by complaints filed by three of Boylan's female patients, identified in the report by their initials: D.W., D.S., and K.G. After 20 days of hearings in late 1994 and early 1995, the Board concluded that Boylan had "abused his role as a therapist and was grossly negligent...in imposing his personal views on the existence of extraterrestrials into the dreams and memories of D.W. and D.S." The Board concluded that Boylan had "committed gross negligence" in violation of business and professions codes when he:
- "Invited D.W. to his home in Nov. 1992 and engaged in nude hot tubbing [and] when he gave D.W. a massage in his hotel room in Las Vegas."
- "Invited K.G. to his home in Dec. 1991 and engaged in nude hot tubbing [and] when he bartered therapy for nude massages from K.G."
- However, the Board did not conclude that Boylan's act of inviting D.S. and K.G. to Harbin Hot Springs for nude therapy sessions constituted gross negligence. Nor did the Board conclude that Boylan had engaged in "sexual misconduct" with any of the three women.
- The Psychology Board report noted that Boylan "has been involved with counseling for about 30 years, first as a Catholic priest and later as a licensed therapist....He is married and the father of two and the stepfather of two. At the time of the Accusation...[Boylan] was president of the Sacramento Valley Psychological Association."
- Boylan called SUN on Oct. 13 because of an item that appeared in the Sept. issue which might be construed as indicating that he recommended nude hot tub therapy for "abductees." This, he said, was not true.
Boylan provided SUN with a lengthy rebuttal to the Psychology Board's charges and actions in which he claimed he was a victim of those seeking to perpetuate a "UFO cover-up." Boylan charged that "the engineers of the UFO Cover-Up fear, resent, and have not been able to refute the data I have exposed about UFO reality, the extraterrestrial presence, secret U.S.-UFO manufac-turing, the literal Star Wars object of the SDI [Strategic Defense Initiative] program, and the covert apparatus behind the UFO Cover-Up. Therefore, they have selected their chief alternative strategy: to smear and discredit this researcher, with sensationalized and reputation-destroying allegations, in the hope of terminating my credibility and professional reputation." [For additional background on Boylan, see SUN #23/Nov. 1993 and SUN #24/Jan. 1994.]
Congressman Schiff Continues His Roswell/GAO Cover-Up
"Crashed-Saucer" Congressman Steven Schiff of New Mexico, who achieved international fame by charging that the Pentagon/U.S. Air Force failed to respond to his request for information on the "Roswell Incident," continues to "stonewall" SUN's request for information on his role in shaping the final report issued by the General Accounting Office (GAO) on July 28, dealing with its Roswell investigation [SUN #35/Sept. 1995]. It has now been five months since SUN wrote Schiff on Aug. 6 to request a copy of the first draft of the GAO Roswell report "together with a list of changes/revisions which you suggested to GAO." A second request was sent on Aug. 20. As of early 1996, SUN has received no response.
SUN has now obtained (from a confidential source) a copy of the initial draft of the GAO Roswell report as well as some other information supplied to GAO. When the GAO verbally informed the congressman that its investigators (with top-security clearances) could not find any documents that indicated that a UFO had crashed near Roswell in 1947—contradicting claims made by some New Mexico voters which Schiff had earlier voiced—this put him in an embarrassing situation. By a curious coincidence, when the GAO published its final draft of the report, it decided to add a NEW paragraph which emphasizes documents which GAO could NOT find.
When Schiff made public the GAO's Roswell Report on July 28, 1995, his office issued a press release which was headlined: "SCHIFF RECEIVES, RELEASES ROSWELL REPORT (Missing Documents Leave Unanswered Questions)." Schiff's press release went on to say: "The GAO report states that outgoing messages from Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) for this period of time were destroyed without proper authority." [Emphasis added.] Not surprisingly, the "missing documents" were featured in the headlines of subsequent news media coverage.
The original version of the GAO report said: "...our investigation indicates that RAAF administrative records (March 1945 through December 1949) and RAAF outgoing messages (October 1946 through December 1949) have been destroyed....they should not have been destroyed." But when GAO invited comments on its initial draft, the Chief Archivist of the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, W.G. Seibert, wrote GAO to challenge this claim on the basis of Par. 53b of Air Force Manual 181-5, which sets out rules governing disposal of old records. (In the mid-1950s, the Defense Dept. was culling out old records in preparation for transferring 33,000 cu. ft. of material from Kansas City to its new center in St. Louis.) Seibert's letter prompted GAO to admit in its final report: "Our review of records control forms showing the destruction of other records—including outgoing RAAF messages for 1950—supports the Chief Archivist's viewpoint." [Emphasis added.]
But in the closing portion of the final report, GAO added a new paragraph which said: "Our search of government records was complicated by the fact that some records we wanted to review were missing and there was not always an explanation." [Emphasis added.] Perhaps the explanation for why Schiff has not supplied SUN with a copy of his letter to GAO suggesting changes in its first draft is that his only file copy was "destroyed without proper authority."
But if any of the "missing" OUTGOING messages from RAAF dealt with the "flying disk" incident, they should have been found among the INCOMING messages received by the Pentagon or Eighth Air Force Headquarters in Ft. Worth, as Roswell researcher Robert G. Todd has pointed out. BUT TODD NOTES THAT GAO INVESTIGATORS DID NOT FIND ANY, NOR DID THEY REPORT ANY "MISSING INCOMING DOCUMENTS."
More Evidence Shows Maj. Marcel Prone To Making Spurious Claims
Roswell researcher Robert G. Todd has uncovered additional evidence that during Maj. Jesse Marcel's later years, when he was being interviewed about the Roswell Incident, he was prone to telling "tall tales." This is revealed by a 1979 tape-recorded interview with Robert Pratt of the National Enquirer. A transcript of the Pratt interview was first made public in Karl Pflock's "Roswell In Perspective," published in mid-1994 [SUN #29/Sept. 1994]. Pflock noted that Marcel falsely claimed he had prepared the statement which President Truman read on the radio, announcing the USSR's first atomic bomb test. The announcement came via a White House press release. Several other spurious claims were revealed in SUN #29, such as Marcel's false claim that he had a degree in nuclear physics.
The results of Todd's study of nearly 200 pages of Marcel's military records—going back to his application for a commission in early 1942—appear in a sharply worded four-page report titled: "The KowPflop Quarterly." (The spelling is intended to needle Karl Pflock.) In Todd's report, he notes that Marcel told Pratt that he was a private pilot and had 3,000 hours of flight time before entering the service, which would have made him a logical candidate for military pilot training. But Marcel's application for a commission, which lists his amateur ("ham") radio and photography hobbies, makes no mention of extensive pilot experience.
Marcel claimed he had received five Air Medals for shooting down five enemy aircraft, and that his combat experience included flying as a pilot and bombardier as well as waist- gunner. Todd notes that Marcel's military record shows he received only two Air Medals, and that he had no training as a gunner, bombardier or military pilot. Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr., has claimed that if the Brazel ranch debris really was from a balloon-borne radar reflector, his father should have recognized it because he had received training in radar. Marcel's military record shows he took a three-week course in airborne radar, which dealt with its use for bomb-ing and navigation, not tracking weather balloons. (If you'd like a copy of Todd's report, his address is: 2528 Belmont Ave., Ardmore, Pa. 19003-2617 SUN suggests you enclose $2.00).
Short Shrift:
- President Reveals Interest In Crashed Saucers: During President Clinton's recent visit to Ireland, he publicly responded to a letter from a 13-year-old Belfast boy named Ryan, who had asked about the Roswell Incident. According to an Associated Press account, Clinton said: "Now Ryan, if you're out in the crowd tonight, here's the answer to your question. No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. And Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it either. And I want to know." Attention Hilary Rodham: If you are wondering what to get the President for his next birthday, SUN has a suggestion: Buy him a "Roswell Alien in a Chamber," a four-foot-long ET made of latex, like the one featured in the movie "Roswell." It comes in an illuminated chamber that is 54 in. long by 18 in. wide, and stands 15 in. tall. It can be purchased at the Sharper Image store only three blocks east of the White House. The price is only $1,695.
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Environmental Group Brings Green Bikes to Campusby Curtis Eilers '06 • April 7, 2006 Share:
"I'm Tyler, I'm a senior, and … I like bikes."
That's how Tyler Carr '06 introduced himself at the called, officially began April 6, when six tuned up, road ready bikes were placed on campus for free public use. Tyler, the programs leader, and the newly formed group have already left their mark.
The idea is fantastic; anyone from the Wabash community can take a bike, ride it wherever they need to "Run errands, get to class, or just go for a first Students for Sustainability meeting on the Wabash Campus.
He wasn't kidding. Wabash Green Bikes, as it's being ride!" as the flyer reads - and then return it to one of the campus bike racks. The bikes are numbered, and students have been asked to send maintenance requests as necessary. The group is also seeking donations and volunteers to help prepare and maintain the bikes.
"On a bicycle when you're between a semi truck and a van that's burning oil, like I was the other day, and you're in traffic, it's like 'wow, so this is what pollution tastes like,' " Carr said. "You realize all the things you don't notice when you're in a car, you're much more connected with the environment."
There has been a lot of concern the bikes might be stolen, especially if left unattended at night, but after three days SFS members report that they've all been spotted recently. Student Senate representative Shawn Crane '09 suggested they might be willing to pay for combination locks to make the bikes more secure, but still accessible.
"The community has really come through for us. The local bike shop (Rotten Robbies' Cycle Sports) gave us a discount on parts, and the bookstore donated the 'Wabash College' decals," Carr said.
There has been a strong positive response, and people can be seen riding the bikes all over campus. Students for Sustainability hopes to add more bikes to the program, perhaps twenty or thirty in total, and encourage more campus involvement in keeping the bikes running.
"I mean, you really can't have too many of them," Carr added.
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In 1978, the horror movie, "The Swarm," hit the nation's theaters, featuring vast hordes of killer bees that wreaked havoc in south Texas.
Chockablock with big name stars — Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Michael Caine, Richard Widmark, Fred MacMurray, Richard Chamberlain, Ben Johnson, Lee Grant, Patty Duke, Slim Pickens — the $21 million production (a lot of money in that era) was a colossal boxoffice bomb, lasting only a couple of weeks in theaters.
Although it was subsequently labeled one of the worst disaster movies ever, four decades later it enjoys something of cult status among horror movie buffs.
"It was a cheesy movie," says Blake Layton, Mississippi State University Extension entomology professor, "but it was also somewhat prophetic in that we've seen Africanized honeybees, which were dubbed 'killer bees,' move into the southern U.S. and become established."
While not nearly so dramatic on a human scale as in the old movie, many non-native pests, from fire ants to slithery, slimy worm-like creatures, have come into the U.S. and made themselves at home, often causing widespread economic damage and other disruptions to life and commerce, he said at a recent meeting of the Starkville, Miss., Ag Club.
"So, in reality, we can say 'the swarm' is still coming."
Africanized honeybees, which are a sub-species of the common European honeybees, came into Texas in 1990 and have spread from there, Layton says.
"Their movement has been more westward than east, although they're in south Louisiana, only two parishes away from Mississippi. They are much more aggressive than our native honeybees — the analogy I use is that it's like comparing a Labrador and a pitbull. When they do move into Mississippi, it will change the way we deal with honeybees.
"Even our 'native' honeybees aren't native; they were brought here by settlers from Europe. The Indians called them 'white man's flies.'"
There are more than 1,700 significant insect pest species in the U.S., Layton says, and half or more have been introduced in one way or another.
"The boll weevil is a prime example of how a non-native pest can move in and wreak economic havoc," he says. "It cost Mississippi farmers millions of dollars before it was finally eradicated. We've not had a boll weevil in the state in more than two years."
Imported fire ants have spread across most of the lower Southeast and across south Texas and into parts of Oklahoma.
"Thus far, we've not been able to stop them," Layton says, "and there's nothing on the horizon that promises to halt their spread."
Another species, Argentine ants, "have been here for a long time, but haven't spread as fast as fire ants. South of Jackson, Miss., they're quite abundant. They don't sting or build visible mounds, and they'll run off fire ants. The difference is that they will come inside houses and other buildings."
Hairy crazy ants
Recently, the media have given a lot of attention to hairy crazy ants, also called raspberry crazy ants and Caribbean crazy ants.
"These began showing up in Mississippi about three years ago," Layton says. "They also don't sting or build visible mounds, but their populations can be really huge, and they will come inside in vast numbers. They don't bother human food or pet food, but they can short out electrical circuits, well pumps, and other electrical devices, and if you disturb them they can be all over you in 30 seconds. They feed on other insects and plant nectar/exudates.
"Homeowners tell me they can kill them, but they may end up with a half inch thick pile of dead ants.
"We think they originated in South America, were then introduced into the Caribbean, and from there probably came into the U.S. on ships or in potted plants.
"At present, we know of two places in south Mississippi where they're located, but we think they will spread rapidly. We don't have any idea how far north they will move."
Other non-native pests that have taken up residence in Mississippi or elsewhere in the U.S., Layton says, include:
• Land planarian: "It's long like an earthworm, slimy like a snail, with a head like a cobra." A predator of earthworms, it can be up to 12 inches in length. It has been in Mississippi for quite a while.
• Formosan termites: "They were first found in 1984 in coastal areas of Mississippi and now about 25 counties have infestations, including one documented at Tupelo in northeast Mississippi this year. They can eat a lot more, a lot faster, than the more common eastern subterranean termites."
• Brown marmorated stinkbugs: "These have come from the northeast U.S., where they've been well-established for some time. They're harder to control and have a much stronger odor than our other stinkbugs; they're also more damaging to fruits and some landscape plants. They will also come inside in large numbers; homeowners in the northeast tell of sweeping out five-gallon buckets full."
• European hornets: "They can be up to 2 inches long and prey on honeybees. We don't have that many in Mississippi yet, but there are a lot in Arkansas and Tennessee."
• Giant resin bees: "Something of a curiosity, they showed up in Mississippi about 8 years ago and have spread all over the state. While they don't bore holes in wood like carpenter bees, they will go into holes already present."
'Kudzu bug' damages soybeans
• Bean plataspid: "This pest, also called kudzu bug, was found in Georgia in 2009, and is reported to cause losses of as much as 14 percent in soybeans, and could potentially be a problem across the South. It will also come into homes in the fall."
• Chili thrips: "This one is in Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana, and is likely in Mississippi, although we don't know if has become established. It can be very damaging to roses, vegetables, fruits, and row crops. It has the potential to become a big deal if it gets established in the state."
• European wood wasp: "It has been attacking pines and softwood conifers in the northeast. It will attack slash and loblolly pines, which are widely planted in Mississippi. It can devastate entire plantations, and if it becomes established here growers will have to do a good job of thinning trees to promote more vigorous growth to allow the trees to resist the pest."
• Walnut twig beetle: "Already in Tennessee, it kills black walnut trees. We think it came in from Colorado, where it existed in other walnut species."
• Granulate ambrosia beetle: "We already have this pest, which bores into the trunk of saplings less than three years old and pushes out frass. Just 10 of them can kill a small tree. We've had a lot of calls about from peach growers about this pest."
• Red bay ambrosia beetle: "It has already killed most of the red bay trees in Georgia and South Carolina. It also attacks sassafras and Florida growers are concerned that it could be a problem in avocados."
• Crape myrtle aphids, azalea lace bugs, and camellia tea scale: "These are pests of ornamentals widely planted in Mississippi, and can cause varying damage. A common means of introduction is via nursery plants."
• Mediterranean fruit fly: "Not a problem in Mississippi, it is a major concern for growers in Florida and California, which have carried out extensive eradication programs. It has also been seen in Gulf coastal areas."
• Balsam wooly adelgid: "A destructive pest of Fraser firs, it and the hemlock wooly adelgid, have had a huge impact on the landscape of the Smoky Mountains, with great swaths of dead and dying trees."
• Emerald ash borer: "This one came into Michigan in 200s and has killed millions of trees across the north."
• Asian bighorned beetle: "Found in New York state in 1996, it bores into non-oak hardwoods and eventually kills them."
With the increase in global commerce, opportunities have increased for the introduction of many non-native species that can adapt to life in the U.S., Layton says. Some have no predators here and can quickly multiply and overwhelm an ecosystem.
"It's important that we remain on the alert for these invaders. You never know when one will have the potential to be the next boll weevil, or even worse."


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When a star becomes a white dwarf—an old, extremely dense star that would have once had a mass similar to our own sun's—the eventful part of its life is over. It releases what heat and light it has left over billions of years, slowly cooling until it no longer shines. Some white dwarfs, however, are not content with this ending.
If a white dwarf exists in a two-star system with a companion, it can avert its fate and go out with a bang, not a whimper. It does so by causing a particular type of stellar explosion called a type Ia supernova. A type Ia supernova starts when the white dwarf drags material from its companion onto itself. It grows and grows until it cannot get any bigger. At this point, it implodes, then rebounds and explodes in a supernova bright enough to outshine whole galaxies.
The companion star from which the white dwarf steals matter is instrumental in this dramatic event. Its identity, however, has long been a mystery. Theoretical models say the companion star can be anything from a red giant to a main sequence star like the sun to another white dwarf.
Astronomers have been able to narrow the range of possible companions for a type Ia supernova spotted late last year. A telescope belonging to the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) survey in Pasadena, Calif., spotted a bright spot at one minute before 9 P.M. on August 24. The new supernova, known as supernova 2011fe, won Palomar astronomers the record for the earliest ever detection of a type Ia supernova: just 11 hours after its initial explosion.
Last December researchers published two papers in Nature analyzing observations of supernova 2011fe. One paper, with lead author Peter Nugent of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and PTF, found that the companion star was probably a main sequence star. The other work, spearheaded by Weidong Li of the University of California, Berkeley, rules out a red giant.
Li used observations from the Keck II telescope in Hawaii to pinpoint the location of the supernova, then analyzed Hubble Space Telescope images from before the supernova explosion to look for clues about the pair of stars from which it was born.
Supernova 2011fe is the nearest type Ia supernova to be discovered in many years and, because instrumentation has moved on considerably in that time, will be the most studied supernova in history. These two papers are just the beginning.
This article was published in print as "Stars That Go Out with a Bang."


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piltogg wrote:as for hardsuit instructions, Zessi's frame should be enough. http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamzeessi/ ... otostream/
RedShirt wrote:Please put my SigFig in here.
Name: Prof. Brik-hed
Back-story: He wants to stop Piltogg from getting artifax because he wants them all for himself. Although he might join Piltogg if only to backstab him at a later point. He has a large Mutant army along with his left-hand man Dark-sabre.
Stats: All normal hero stats except for the fact he found the skully grail a long time ago and still uses it as his main weapon aside from his silver crossbow (he duel-wields). His head is invincible and he has physic feats. He can also carry any weight on his head. He can move 12" a turn.
Sorry I can't include a pic, but here's how to build him:
1: Take minifig body
2: Take off Head
3: Replace with 2 by 4 blue brick.
Dark-Sabre counts as an officer except he has a robotic arm and can move 10" a turn. He wields a Dark-Sabre (Lyte-Sabre body but with black top) and can deflect blaster shots with it.
Mutants are regular minifigs, but can be revived by Brik-Hed and wield an array of weaponry.
Silverdream wrote:SnakeMittens wrote:neersighted wrote:SnakeMittens wrote:He won't roll . He's PILTOGG.
I am a sad, four foot midget who's only source of fun is to sit and edit other people's posts.
Oh the massive massive steaming piles of irony.
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What If the Akkadians take to long getting a hold of the weapon?
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pssjm3 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 97 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
We need a funky logo for our new health coaching company, MonkeyBox, LLC.
Health what? Ah...read on.
We need a logo that is funky interpretation of "Monkey" and "Box." Even better if there is a subtle message about being healthy.This logo will appear on everything (web, letterhead, business cards, labels, fitness equipment).
So who are we? We are a "health coaching" company. We help companies lower their health care costs by improving the fitness and diet of their employees. No, we don't get people to act like Monkeys or play in boxes. We don't do interpretative dance, sing Kumbaya, or forms circles of trust. We offer a solid program based on principles in exercise and nutritional science delivered by folk trained in behavior change techniques. We know - the name is goofy. Most people told us it sounded silly and we should have picked a name like "Health Coaching Partners" or "Business Wellness and Productivity" but that's too boring. It's our way of saying that we do things unlike any other health coaching service—unconventionally and with a little humor and wit.
- Your interpretation of "Monkey" and "Box" as a relatively simple and easily reproducible logo.
- "Monkey" and "Box" don't need to be represented literally
- The words "MonkeyBox" should appear in full, but just "MB" is also ok.
- Simple, bold, eye catching.
- Ambiguity ok.
- Can be a little cheeky.
- Nothing new agey - no rainbows, swirlyness, mystical or spritual.
- Nothing smutty or with sexual innuendo. Cheeky is ok.
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I just gutted the article. Sections were cut-n-pasted from Wikipedia, the Chamber of Commerce, Visitor Info websites, etc. So I cut everything that had the appearance of being copied (thank God marketese is pretty obvious). I managed to leave in the basic facts, names, and website links. -- Colin 01:26, 10 March 2006 (EST)
Just got back from Bend-had a great time! Impressed with the amount of activities, physical beauty of the area, the people. No mention in of McMenamins anywhere. Fantastic place-movie theatre, accomodations, Turkish bath, pubs and restaraunts. Centrally located, price is right. Hope to return!
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Did you think the Bills were really going to win on Sunday? Did you really think they would pull a huge upset and get their first win? Did you think you would finally have a good Monday and stop hearing about how the Bills are the absolute bottom of the NFL barrel? Yeah, me neither…
Gone are the days when the Bills won games they had no business even being in. Gone are last second game-winning drives. A culture of losing has been cultivated in Buffalo, and it has grown strong.
Losing teams somehow find a way to lose, and no team serves as a better example than the Bills. Admittedly the past decade has made me bitter and cynical as a fan, but I'd guess there are countless others like me. As I watched the Bills go up on Baltimore by 14 points all I could think about was what painful way the team would find to come home losers.
Ah yes, soul-crushing turnovers and questionable calls by officials – things that have plagued the Bills for years. Nothing turns the momentum and the score as quickly as a turnover, and in the span of about 14 minutes the Bills turned the ball over twice and gave up 3 unanswered touchdowns. For the game the Bills were -2 on the turnover ratio, recovering 2 fumbles but yielding 2 fumbles and 2 interceptions.
It's amazing how quickly things go from excited and happy to dark and gloomy when you follow the Bills. Nothing is more illustrative of this than when the Bills clearly intercepted a Joe Flacco touchdown pass in the endzone – the only problem was that it somehow wasn't an interception. In true "it only happens to the Bills" fashion, Reggie Corner caught the ball well within the endzone but landed on the receiver rather than the turf and never got his feet or another body part down before going out of bounds – incomplete pass. Through the years I think the Bills have found every last bizarre way to not get a turnover and this was no exception – according to the rules it was the right call, but in your gut you know it should have been Bills ball. Seriously, does any of this stuff ever happen to teams other than the Bills?
While I am willing to say that the officials got the interception call right, I am more than willing to complain that they completely blew the fumble call on Shawn Nelson in overtime. Nelson caught the ball and was mobbed by Ravens. Bills also converged on Nelson and a scrum ensued. When it was all over Ray Lewis had stripped the Ball and the officials ruled a fumble with Baltimore recovering. What the officials clearly missed was that Nelson's forward progress had been stopped well before the ball was stripped and that should have been the end of the play. The refs sat on their whistles as Nelson was literally held in the air by a group of Ravens – his feet in the air reminding me of the time I was in the first 5 rows at a 1988 Metallica show when the crowd started getting ugly and pushing. The point is that Nelson wasn't even capable of forward motion, but because there was no whistle the fumble was allowed to happen and the Bills went down to defeat.
As much as the Bills find ways to lose, winning teams somehow find ways to win. Later in the afternoon the Patriots escaped with a victory in San Diego when an ill-timed false start penalty pushed a game-tying field goal just out of range. All I could do is watch and shake my head. In the same situation the Bills could have come up with dozens of bizarre and painful ways to lose in San Diego and somehow New England found yet another way to steal a win.
I'm not necessarily blaming the Bills for the loss on Sunday, I'm just trying to show that there seems to be some sort of karma in the NFL – the Patriots cup runneth over with good karma and the Bills seem to have none. I think it's certainly linked to attitude and culture – New England has a culture of winning and Buffalo has a culture of losing – both seem to be self-perpetuating.
I know plenty of Bills fans are actually somewhat pleased with Sunday's game. Indeed, there are positive takeaways from the game – a Bills quarterback who threw for over 300 yards and 4 touchdowns, two 100+ yard receivers, putting up 34 points against one of the NFL's most heralded defenses and a team that showed it wasn't ready to quit. These are encouraging, but as Rhett Butler famously proclaimed, I don't give a damn. Bottom line is that the Bills are 0-6, and that's really all that matters. Whether they lose a close game or a blowout, a loss is a loss and I'm too tired of losing to care enough about sorting things out between "good losses" and "bad losses" – somebody wake me when we start winning games.
I'd like to say I'm satisfied with the Bills playing pretty well and showing some signs of life. I'd like to say that the game had me on the edge of my seat wondering how it was going to end. I'd like to say I think the Bills will start winning games soon. The truth of the matter is that I can't. The Bills are experts at losing and by now I'm an expert of watching it happen.


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Russell Wood necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 21 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
Russell Wood Training
I am Russell, and I've recently started a new Personal Training Business. What sets me apart from other PTs is a very strong IT background. I will be providing a service which draws on my computer/web programming skills to give each client a modern, more up-to-date method of showing fitness results in an effort to keep people more motivated to reach their goals.
I train, not only in a gym, but also provide "mobile" personal training services which means I travel to clients and use their local park or even backyard to train them. I've also set up a studio gym in my own home which I will also use to train people.
Initially, my target audience will be quite general. However, like most Personal Trainers, I anticipate my target audience will be those who are overweight.
I'd also like to pay particular attention to computer workers. Having spent 12 years of my own life sitting at a computer desk every day, I believe I have a communication advantage over other PTs who, in my experience, are more likely to be very sport oriented and less understanding of the office lifestyle.
Before I start throwing out my thoughts here I am very open to new ideas and if you can think of anything that would be better suited to what I've typed above, then feel free to think outside the square.
I think the most important message I'm looking to present with my logo is that fitness is energetic, fun, healthy etc. I'd like to try to avoid cliche fitness symbols if possible (dumb bells, running man silhouette) and try to represent fitness in a new way. I need to be sure that whatever logo I go with encourages ANYONE to come to me for their training.
I'm picturing a more cartoon type logo which some kind of (animal?) mascot looking like it's having fun training. You can use the full title of "Russell Wood Training" or if you can think of something fancy with the letters "RWT" (As long as the full title appears somewhere on the logo)
The logo will be used for a website, and also for the uniform.
I'll leave it at that for now but be sure to check feedback for logos as I will be giving plenty of feedback to everyone!
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When thirty-nine-year-old, best-selling author and former CIA agent, Mitchell Brenna, agrees to meet a colleague he hasn't seen in years, his world is turned upside down. What should have been a happy reunion turns into a nightmare scenario, when he discovers his old CIA partner dying from a gunshot wound. Wrongly accused of his murder, and with the worst snowstorm to hit Washington State in a century, Mitch takes refuge in a remote cabin, hoping that somehow he can clear his name.
After finding her long-term boyfriend in bed with her sister, twenty-seven-year-old journalist, Hannah Philips, heads toward her parents' cabin in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, hoping to lick her wounds and figure out what she wants from life. What she doesn't expect to find is her favorite author M K Brenna on the run from the police, and intent on holding her captive.
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World AIDS Day in Retrospect: Videos, Interviews and Advocacy
December 5, 2012
Count Us in the Right to Live a Life Free From Violence
Getting to Zero for Women
This World AIDS Day, PWN and women and HIV advocates around the country advocated for an end to violence against women. Check out videos, articles, and interviews below! More to come in the next e-blast. Stay tuned!
Read PWN's World AIDS Day Press Release Here
PWN Speaks! In the Media
Melissa Harris-Perry Show: On World AIDS Day a New Understanding of an Old Problem With PWNer Sonia Rastogi
"There are intersectional factors that can further our understanding of why our youth continue to acquire HIV. A lack of comprehensive sex education and a prevailing stigma associated with HIV and AIDS all work in concert with violence and trauma to make the disease even more deadly than it is already. We can and must do better."
Raising Our Voices
World AIDS Day: "An Open Letter About My HIV Status to My Future Grown-Up Son" by a PWNer
"To my beautiful son -- It's hard to know how to start this letter, but I find myself needing to write to you on this World AIDS Day about my having HIV. Right now in 2012, you are only 3 years old and much too young to understand what it means for your mom to be living with HIV."
Take Action
Have Some COMPASSION Colorado: Stigma Campaign Launch and Stigma Index Survey
This World AIDS Day and throughout December, Coloradans are engaging in open and honest discussion about HIV, stigma, and compassion. Won't you join us? We are surveying people's compassionate and anti-stigmatizing beliefs and would love to hear form you. For printable surveys and surveys in Spanish click here.
Leaders Speak
"When Revealing HIV Status Turns Deadly: The Cicely Bolden Case Exposes the Dangers Women Face When Telling Partners They're HIV-Positive" by Kellee Terrell
Bolden's death is another tragic reminder of the constant fear and violence that so many people living with HIV/AIDS, especially black women, face on a daily basis in the United States -- violence that is a direct consequence of the stigma and ignorance that HIV-negative folks create and perpetuate, yet are unwilling to own up to and admit is a problem.
"Cicely Bolden's murder is, for women, what Trayvon Martin is for the black men," says Dazon Dixon Diallo.
Tools & Resources
Hot Off the Press: "HIV, Violence Against Women and Trauma Fact Sheet"
Check it out! Talking points, research data, recommendations and more. Use this fact sheet in your outreach efforts, in trainings, at staff meetings, with clients and more.
This article was provided by Positive Women's Network of the United States of America. Visit PWN-USA's website to find out more about their activities and publications.
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I brought Furby to college today. The kids loved him. (???!)
There was a reason for it and this also meant he had to have a bit of a wash before he was allowed to go. I made sure I fed and petted it so that it wouldn't say 'No' when I asked it to sing. I was using him as a warning of what can happen when sensors are misused.
But, no, the strange creatures that are teenagers thought he was great. But then again they think the Blue Fluffy Coulomb is pretty cool too.
We've being doing sensors and this morning was about their practical application. I let the kids loose on the equipment and it all went rather well.
But not everything went according to plan. I completely forgot to put a clip from Red Dwarf on my USB stick. In Advancing Physics there is a piece about a Braun toaster that uses sensors to perfectly toast your bread. Such an unmissable opportunity to slip in Talkie Toaster - and I missed it. Damn!
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A 24-year old man has been charged with the second degree murder of Red Scorpion leader Matt Campbell in Abbotsford last month.
Jimi Sandhu is scheduled to appear in Abbotsford Provincial Court Monday on the charge.
Campbell was fatally stabbed in the neck Jan. 2 at the Abbotsford Auto Mall.
Sources said the slaying appeared to stem from an accidental encounter between the gang leader and his assailant.
Campbell, 32, entered a rental car business to seek help but died from the injuries he received in the attack.
Sandhu was arrested in Vancouver Friday, according to Sgt. Bari Emam, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.
He was known to police before to the Campbell murder.
In May 2012, Sandhu was convicted of two counts of assault with a weapon — one in Vancouver and one in Abbotsford — and got a day in jail and credit for 31 days served.
He was acquitted of trafficking in Abbotsford in 2009 but has other convictions for theft under $5,000 and breach of probation.
In 2011, he and several others were charged in a kidnapping, but the charges were stayed days later.
Campbell was attacked just before 3:45 p.m. Jan. 2 in the 30100-block of Automall Drive.
"Today's announcement is the result of a fast paced investigation that commenced on the day of Mr. Campbell's murder and continued around the clock for the past 30 days. The assistance from the Abbotsford Police Department and the partnership formed between IHIT and CFSEU-BC contributed to the successful resolution of this investigation," IHIT head Supt. Kevin Hackett said.
"Gang-related homicide investigations are often difficult to solve. Having CFSEU-BC investigators working so closely with our team was extremely helpful."
The head of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit also praised the close working relationship between the agencies.
"As British Columbia's integrated anti-gang police agency, it is essential that CFSEU-BC collaborate with units like IHIT and our policing partners to not only ensure communities around the province are safe from gang-related violence but that when that violence does occur that we are there to assist," Chief Supt. Dan Malo said.
Campbell is believed to have taken over the leadership of the Red Scorpion gang after the arrest or murders of several key gang members in recent years, including brothers Jonathan, Jarrod and Jamie Bacon.
Campbell attended a funeral service for Jonathan in Langley in August 2011 after the eldest Bacon brother was shot to death in Kelowna.
Campbell was convicted of conspiring to traffic firearms in 2007 and received a two-year sentence. During the investigation, more than 100 guns were seized, including military assault rifles, sub machine guns and fully automatic handguns.
Campbell, who grew up in Abbotsford, was extremely close to the Bacon brothers.
He travelled with other Red Scorpions gangsters and their girlfriends to Mexico in December 2007, just weeks after the Surrey Six slayings. Also on the trip were Jamie Bacon, Cody Haevischer, and a man who can be identified only as Person X due to a court-ordered ban, all of whom were later charged in the high-profile murder case.
Person X has since pleaded guilty. Haevischer is on trial and Bacon is due to be tried separately at a later date.
Also on the Mexico trip were Jon Bacon and the late Kevin LeClair, who died in a hail of bullets in February 2009.
According to evidence at the Surrey Six trial, the Red Scorpion gang was formed in 2005 by several teens inside a youth detention centre.
One of the founders, Michael Le, pleaded guilty in December to conspiring to kill one of the Surrey Six victims. The Red Scorpions went on to run drug lines all over the Lower Mainland, with the Bacon brothers and their allies joining the gang in 2007.
A bloody gang war involving the Red Scorpions and their rivals from the United Nations and other groups has left dozens of people dead.
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