May 11, 2006
Classic Car Show
http://www.wtv-zone.com/cal731/SH/c1/frames.html
You’re In America Now
Two al-Qaeda spies met in a busy restaurant after they had successfully slipped into the U.S. The first spy starts speaking in Arabic. The second spy shushes him quickly and whispers: "Don't blow our cover. You're in America now. Speak Spanish."
The news is reporting that the Pope has contracted the bird flu
He got it from one of his Cardinals...
This pertains to the video I sent the other day on HHO and water run engines (cold flame), at least the Army is looking into it. TACOM manages all the tanks ad other vehicles for the Army.
http://contracting.tacom.army.mil/events/13LogSymposium/D04%20Turning%20Water%20to%20Fire.ppt
Clear Your Cache http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/using/howto/customizing/clearcache.mspx
English errors (lay vs. lie and stuff like that)
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
I wonder if this is legit...
Colliding Plasma Toroid Clean-Energy Breakthrough
http://pesn.com/2006/03/08/9600242_Spheromak_Plasma_Toroid/
excellent article
Late Word From the Oil Patch
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200605/COM20060508c.html
what a bunch of boobs...
3,738 Mothers Set Breast-Feeding Record May 6 -MANILA, Philippines - Manila Mayor Lito Atienza, whose city is one of the event's organizers, said 3,738 mothers simultaneously breast-fed their babies for at least one minute, breaking the Guinness World Record...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060506/ap_on_fe_st/mass_breast_feeding
Sliding down the slippery slope...
Toddler ’tude: Pimpfants pushes tyke-trash style
May 3, 2006 -I can’t believe I’m saying this, but bring back the ‘‘My grandma went to Florida and all I got was this lousy T-shirt” kidswear. Anything’s better than the latest attempt to fashion victimize children: Pimpfants wear. As in ‘‘pimp” plus ‘‘infant.” ...there’s a double-wide load of styles to choose from. There’s the winsome ‘‘Baby Beater” tank tops, the mini basketball uniform with ‘‘Jr. Pimp Squad” across the jersey or the T-shirts that read ‘‘My Mom Is a MILF.” (Mother (or Mom) I'd Like to….)
... I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the kids aren’t begging for the stuff. ‘‘But mom, all the other toddlers have ‘Pimpfant’ onesies.”
...‘‘We are getting a lot of positive feedback,” he said. And those who are horrified at the thought of a child wearing a shirt that says ‘‘pimp”? It’s simply a matter of understanding the new lingo. ‘‘A lot of people have trouble thinking of the word ‘pimp’ without associating it with someone on the street.” (if that isn't what it's refereing to then why bother with it in the first place?)http://theedge.bostonherald.com/lifeNews/view.bg?articleid=137636&format=text
ABC ISSUES APOLOGY FOLLOWING COMMANDER IN CHIEF EPISODE
ABC has apologized to the citizens of Hyattsville, MD... for Thursday night's episode of Commander in Chief in which the town was depicted as violent and crime-ridden...a character said that 11 homicides had occurred in Hyattsville over the past six months.
"We haven't had 11 homicides in Hyattsville in the past 10 years," Jim Keary, a spokesman for the County Executive Jack. B. Johnson, told the Associated Press.
ABC apologized for any offense, saying that it had embellished crime statistics to enhance its story. In a statement, the network added, "Our goal is not to document actual events, but to create characters and compelling stories for our viewers." (and yet most of the episodes on these types of TV shows purport to be based on actual events...)http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/abc%20issues%20apology%20following%20commander%20in%20chief%20episode_02_05_06
Fear the phone, not the doorknob, germ expert says
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-05-02T120634Z_01_N01451015_RTRUKOC_0_US-GERMS.xml&rpc=22
Hyping High Gas Prices, Hiding Good News
During the Clinton years, network journalists argued (correctly) that strong economic growth, a rising stock market, low unemployment and low inflation were the benchmark indicators of a good economy. Today, economic growth is a phenomenal 4.8 percent, the stock market has been climbing for three straight years, and inflation and unemployment are both low.
But instead of trumpeting the amazing “Bush economy,” TV news has downplayed this recent good news while hyping the bad news of rising fuel costs. Indeed, a new Media Research Center study suggests the broadcast networks are not just noting the discontent about prices but actively stoking public outrage.
To measure the media hype, MRC analysts reviewed ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news shows from April 12 through May 2. During those 21 days, the networks collectively aired 183 stories about rising oil and gas prices — 125 full reports or interview segments, plus another 58 brief anchor-read items...
...In contrast, only four network stories during this period mentioned the low unemployment rate, 4.7 percent. And after the government reported strong economic growth on April 28, ABC and NBC each aired one story, while the CBS Evening News has yet to mention that good news. (more at...)
http://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/2006/fax20060504.asp
The Minuteman Project
http://minutemanproject.com/default.asp?contentID=23
U.S. tipping Mexico to Minuteman patrols
While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen -- and telling the Mexican government where they are.
According to three documents on the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Web site, the U.S. Border Patrol is to notify the Mexican government as to the location of Minutemen and other civilian border patrol groups when they participate in apprehending illegal immigrants -- and if and when violence is used against border crossers.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed the notification process, describing it as a standard procedure meant to reassure the Mexican government that migrants' rights are being observed. (Oh, they cross the boarder illegally and need their rights protected...)
"It's not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be," Mario Martinez said Monday. (complete article at:)
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3799653
Spurned Massachusetts Parents File Suit Against Local School System
April 28, 2006 (AgapePress) - Parents in Lexington, Massachusetts, have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the town and school officials over their refusal to notify parents before classroom discussions with students regarding homosexuality. The two families bringing the suit claim school officials' actions violated the state's Parental Notification law.
The suit was filed yesterday (April 27) by parents David and Tonia Parker and Rob and Robin Wirthlin accuses school officials of violating their federal and Massachusetts civil rights in addition to the charge concerning the state Parental Notification law. Last year David Parker was arrested and spent the night in jail for refusing to leave Estabrook Elementary School until officials acknowledged his right to be notified when his six-year-old son is subjected to discussions about same-sex relationships.
Parker says school teachers and administrators have no right to interfere with his children's moral or religious upbringing. He believes that when parents of young elementary-age children request information from schools having to do with human sexuality or, as he describes it, "socially charged issues like different marriage constructs," those parents have a right to see that information and to "be notified when they're bringing this up to very small children."...
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/282006b.asp
New Findings Support Promise of Using (adult) Stem Cells to Treat Neurodegenerative
DiseasesGenetic Engineering News
The results of a study published in the April 2006 issue of Stem Cells and Development suggest that human stem cells derived from bone marrow are predisposed to develop into a variety of nerve cell types, supporting the promise of developing stem cell-based therapies to treat neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. Stem Cells and Development is a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. (www.liebertpub.com ). The paper, entitled "Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Express Neural Genes, Suggesting a Neural Predisposition," is available free online at www.liebertpub.com/scd. These surprising results lend a new perspective to stem cell differentiation and suggest that multipotential stem cells may express a wide variety of genes at low levels and that stem cells achieve their remarkable plasticity by downregulating the expression of many of these background genes.
In an accompanying editorial, journal Editor-in-Chief, Denis English, Ph.D., Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of Cell Biology at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair Research at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, writes, "The theory invokes the term 'stem state' to indicate this property, which is characterized by a 'neural predisposition' of stem cells. This contrasts with the conventional view that MSCs exclusively express mesenchymal genes and only express genes of advanced structures in response to differentiation signals." He proposes that "contrary to our current thinking, stem cells are in no sense primitive cells. In fact, stem cells may well be the most advanced cells the organism produces." The authors of the report, Netta Blondheim, Yossef Levy, Tali Ben-Zur, Alex Burshtein, Tirza Cherlow, et al., from the Felsenstein Medical Research Center and Department of Neurology at Rabin Medical Center, the Sackler School of Medicine of Tel Aviv University, and Laniado Hospital in Israel, propose this new view of adult stem cell plasticity based on their findings that bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells grown in the laboratory express an extensive assortment of neural genes, genes linked to the neuro-dopaminergic system, and transcription factors that control genes having neural significance.
They conclude that these MSCs are predisposed to differentiate into neuronal cells given the proper conditions. When transplanted into the central nervous system, they will develop into a variety of functional neural cell types, making them a potent resource for cell-based therapy. Stem Cells and Development is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal published bimonthly in print and online. The Journal is dedicated to communication and objective analysis of developments in the biology, characteristics, and therapeutic utility of stem cells, especially those of the hematopoietic system. A complete table of contents and free sample issue may be viewed online at www.liebertpub.com/scd. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Cloning and Stem Cells, Human Gene Therapy, and Tissue Engineering. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 60 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available at http://www.liebertpub.com/. CONTACT: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., New Rochelle Vicki Cohn, 914-740-2100, ext. 2156 vcohn@liebertpub.comhttp://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=993540
David Bennett <>< http://www.freewill-predestination.com/
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
http://www.wtv-zone.com/cal731/SH/c1/frames.html
You’re In America Now
Two al-Qaeda spies met in a busy restaurant after they had successfully slipped into the U.S. The first spy starts speaking in Arabic. The second spy shushes him quickly and whispers: "Don't blow our cover. You're in America now. Speak Spanish."
The news is reporting that the Pope has contracted the bird flu
He got it from one of his Cardinals...
This pertains to the video I sent the other day on HHO and water run engines (cold flame), at least the Army is looking into it. TACOM manages all the tanks ad other vehicles for the Army.
http://contracting.tacom.army.mil/events/13LogSymposium/D04%20Turning%20Water%20to%20Fire.ppt
Clear Your Cache http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/using/howto/customizing/clearcache.mspx
English errors (lay vs. lie and stuff like that)
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
I wonder if this is legit...
Colliding Plasma Toroid Clean-Energy Breakthrough
http://pesn.com/2006/03/08/9600242_Spheromak_Plasma_Toroid/
excellent article
Late Word From the Oil Patch
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200605/COM20060508c.html
what a bunch of boobs...
3,738 Mothers Set Breast-Feeding Record May 6 -MANILA, Philippines - Manila Mayor Lito Atienza, whose city is one of the event's organizers, said 3,738 mothers simultaneously breast-fed their babies for at least one minute, breaking the Guinness World Record...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060506/ap_on_fe_st/mass_breast_feeding
Sliding down the slippery slope...
Toddler ’tude: Pimpfants pushes tyke-trash style
May 3, 2006 -I can’t believe I’m saying this, but bring back the ‘‘My grandma went to Florida and all I got was this lousy T-shirt” kidswear. Anything’s better than the latest attempt to fashion victimize children: Pimpfants wear. As in ‘‘pimp” plus ‘‘infant.” ...there’s a double-wide load of styles to choose from. There’s the winsome ‘‘Baby Beater” tank tops, the mini basketball uniform with ‘‘Jr. Pimp Squad” across the jersey or the T-shirts that read ‘‘My Mom Is a MILF.” (Mother (or Mom) I'd Like to….)
... I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the kids aren’t begging for the stuff. ‘‘But mom, all the other toddlers have ‘Pimpfant’ onesies.”
...‘‘We are getting a lot of positive feedback,” he said. And those who are horrified at the thought of a child wearing a shirt that says ‘‘pimp”? It’s simply a matter of understanding the new lingo. ‘‘A lot of people have trouble thinking of the word ‘pimp’ without associating it with someone on the street.” (if that isn't what it's refereing to then why bother with it in the first place?)http://theedge.bostonherald.com/lifeNews/view.bg?articleid=137636&format=text
ABC ISSUES APOLOGY FOLLOWING COMMANDER IN CHIEF EPISODE
ABC has apologized to the citizens of Hyattsville, MD... for Thursday night's episode of Commander in Chief in which the town was depicted as violent and crime-ridden...a character said that 11 homicides had occurred in Hyattsville over the past six months.
"We haven't had 11 homicides in Hyattsville in the past 10 years," Jim Keary, a spokesman for the County Executive Jack. B. Johnson, told the Associated Press.
ABC apologized for any offense, saying that it had embellished crime statistics to enhance its story. In a statement, the network added, "Our goal is not to document actual events, but to create characters and compelling stories for our viewers." (and yet most of the episodes on these types of TV shows purport to be based on actual events...)http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/abc%20issues%20apology%20following%20commander%20in%20chief%20episode_02_05_06
Fear the phone, not the doorknob, germ expert says
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-05-02T120634Z_01_N01451015_RTRUKOC_0_US-GERMS.xml&rpc=22
Hyping High Gas Prices, Hiding Good News
During the Clinton years, network journalists argued (correctly) that strong economic growth, a rising stock market, low unemployment and low inflation were the benchmark indicators of a good economy. Today, economic growth is a phenomenal 4.8 percent, the stock market has been climbing for three straight years, and inflation and unemployment are both low.
But instead of trumpeting the amazing “Bush economy,” TV news has downplayed this recent good news while hyping the bad news of rising fuel costs. Indeed, a new Media Research Center study suggests the broadcast networks are not just noting the discontent about prices but actively stoking public outrage.
To measure the media hype, MRC analysts reviewed ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news shows from April 12 through May 2. During those 21 days, the networks collectively aired 183 stories about rising oil and gas prices — 125 full reports or interview segments, plus another 58 brief anchor-read items...
...In contrast, only four network stories during this period mentioned the low unemployment rate, 4.7 percent. And after the government reported strong economic growth on April 28, ABC and NBC each aired one story, while the CBS Evening News has yet to mention that good news. (more at...)
http://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/2006/fax20060504.asp
The Minuteman Project
http://minutemanproject.com/default.asp?contentID=23
U.S. tipping Mexico to Minuteman patrols
While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen -- and telling the Mexican government where they are.
According to three documents on the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Web site, the U.S. Border Patrol is to notify the Mexican government as to the location of Minutemen and other civilian border patrol groups when they participate in apprehending illegal immigrants -- and if and when violence is used against border crossers.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed the notification process, describing it as a standard procedure meant to reassure the Mexican government that migrants' rights are being observed. (Oh, they cross the boarder illegally and need their rights protected...)
"It's not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be," Mario Martinez said Monday. (complete article at:)
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3799653
Spurned Massachusetts Parents File Suit Against Local School System
April 28, 2006 (AgapePress) - Parents in Lexington, Massachusetts, have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the town and school officials over their refusal to notify parents before classroom discussions with students regarding homosexuality. The two families bringing the suit claim school officials' actions violated the state's Parental Notification law.
The suit was filed yesterday (April 27) by parents David and Tonia Parker and Rob and Robin Wirthlin accuses school officials of violating their federal and Massachusetts civil rights in addition to the charge concerning the state Parental Notification law. Last year David Parker was arrested and spent the night in jail for refusing to leave Estabrook Elementary School until officials acknowledged his right to be notified when his six-year-old son is subjected to discussions about same-sex relationships.
Parker says school teachers and administrators have no right to interfere with his children's moral or religious upbringing. He believes that when parents of young elementary-age children request information from schools having to do with human sexuality or, as he describes it, "socially charged issues like different marriage constructs," those parents have a right to see that information and to "be notified when they're bringing this up to very small children."...
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/4/282006b.asp
New Findings Support Promise of Using (adult) Stem Cells to Treat Neurodegenerative
DiseasesGenetic Engineering News
The results of a study published in the April 2006 issue of Stem Cells and Development suggest that human stem cells derived from bone marrow are predisposed to develop into a variety of nerve cell types, supporting the promise of developing stem cell-based therapies to treat neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. Stem Cells and Development is a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. (www.liebertpub.com ). The paper, entitled "Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Express Neural Genes, Suggesting a Neural Predisposition," is available free online at www.liebertpub.com/scd. These surprising results lend a new perspective to stem cell differentiation and suggest that multipotential stem cells may express a wide variety of genes at low levels and that stem cells achieve their remarkable plasticity by downregulating the expression of many of these background genes.
In an accompanying editorial, journal Editor-in-Chief, Denis English, Ph.D., Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of Cell Biology at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair Research at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, writes, "The theory invokes the term 'stem state' to indicate this property, which is characterized by a 'neural predisposition' of stem cells. This contrasts with the conventional view that MSCs exclusively express mesenchymal genes and only express genes of advanced structures in response to differentiation signals." He proposes that "contrary to our current thinking, stem cells are in no sense primitive cells. In fact, stem cells may well be the most advanced cells the organism produces." The authors of the report, Netta Blondheim, Yossef Levy, Tali Ben-Zur, Alex Burshtein, Tirza Cherlow, et al., from the Felsenstein Medical Research Center and Department of Neurology at Rabin Medical Center, the Sackler School of Medicine of Tel Aviv University, and Laniado Hospital in Israel, propose this new view of adult stem cell plasticity based on their findings that bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells grown in the laboratory express an extensive assortment of neural genes, genes linked to the neuro-dopaminergic system, and transcription factors that control genes having neural significance.
They conclude that these MSCs are predisposed to differentiate into neuronal cells given the proper conditions. When transplanted into the central nervous system, they will develop into a variety of functional neural cell types, making them a potent resource for cell-based therapy. Stem Cells and Development is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal published bimonthly in print and online. The Journal is dedicated to communication and objective analysis of developments in the biology, characteristics, and therapeutic utility of stem cells, especially those of the hematopoietic system. A complete table of contents and free sample issue may be viewed online at www.liebertpub.com/scd. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Cloning and Stem Cells, Human Gene Therapy, and Tissue Engineering. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 60 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available at http://www.liebertpub.com/. CONTACT: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., New Rochelle Vicki Cohn, 914-740-2100, ext. 2156 vcohn@liebertpub.comhttp://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=993540
David Bennett <>< http://www.freewill-predestination.com/
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
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