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The most common definition of a betting house is a construction that offers gambling. Here, guests will game by challenging one-armed-bandits or some other betting games. Gaming hall games ordinarily include mathematically derived balances incorporated which guarantee the management retains dominion above the gambling buffs. Far too many gambling saloon games may cause you to get overly dependent very rapidly. Let’s look at the classic one-armed-bandit, a cash operated appliance with three cogs which pirouette if a crank on the side is wrenched. The gadget most often will compensate punters according to a set arrangement of pictograms discernible on the front panel of the machine. Regrettably, betting hall games encourage a hallucination of power, deluding the betting devotee — the punter is conceded choices, but these will not realistically match up the player’s disadvantage. This is induced by the gaming room not returning the full amount as hoped for. This policy is recurrently found in popular casino games such as seven card stud, craps, roulette or blackjack.

Stud poker is definitely an incredibly popular casino pastime. The gaming aficionados, closely guarding their guarded hands, bet in the pot which is then awarded to the last player endowed with best combination of cards. (As everybody knows, the best bluffing hand may well prevail as well!) Commensurate with blind poker, blackjack is also a highly trendy casino game. A sizeable chunk of its reputation is by virtue of its particular mix of chance and ingenuity and choice making, as well as a process named Card Counting. It is an approach through which gaming fans can significantly force the probabilities of the card game to their own advantage both by wagering & fundamental opetations correlating with the hands dealt. “Craps” is a well known casino pastime based on the roll of a couple of dice. Gamblers must place bets on the score of 1 roll, or on a sequence of spins of 2 dice. Contrary to blackjack, there is no possible killer system people can apply to bend the odds. Roulette is an extremely popular casino based game; a croupier twirls a roulette wheel encompassing a set of 37 (European roulette) or thirtyeight (as applicable to American roulette) independently tagged receptacles in which a pellet will come to rest, which establishes the winner and the other chances that will come with it. When the participant bets on a number which hits it which is to say they’ve got a lucky hand, the promised return is going to be thirty-five to 1, the bet is returned. Thus in total it is increased by a factor of 36.

We strongly recommend you be very much careful however, because such casino games of chance are decidedly habituating. Myriad lives have indisputably been ruined in the course of inordinate gambling + much as it indeed feels like fun, do please endeavour to moderate your gambling.

Visible remnants of the world’s eldest democracy can be seen in a town in the Carantania region in what is now Austria, where during the early Middle Ages, the tribal society of a Slav people managed to live for over 100 years without being invaded and out of sheer happiness invented a democratic system. They did not call it a democracy but the word invented later was taken directly from their example.

The Carantanians, situated in the the Eastern Alps (present-day Austria), arose after the decline of the Roman Empire in 476 in territory of the Roman province of Inner Noricum. They had a pretty elaborate procedure whereby the people elected a Duke who ruled them in what today would be considered an utterly romantic way. The Duke ruled only by consent of the people. They could do away with him if they so pleased.

His rule was not automatically passed on to his offspring, but every time a new Duke was needed, he was put forward by popular choice in its most basic form. The Carantanians were an incredibly proud people and were not shy about showing their Duke off. The ritual around his installation was at the time said to be unrivalled in the world. The installation took place in the open air, at a huge stone, was said to be among the greatest ceremonies ever witnessed even by high ranking outsiders.

As a matter of fact, it is due to a Pope that the system received fame around the world. The Carantanian example was described in glowing terms by Pope Piccolomini (II) and apart from their fame being spread all over Europe, they also were noticed by people further afield, including the US President Thomas Jefferson a few millennia later when he studied the words Jean Bodin wrote about them as examplary material for the US constitution.

Writers making note of them furthermore included M.A.C. Sabellicus (Eneades Rapsodiae Historicae, Opera Omnia, Basel 1560) and P. Mexia (Silva de Varia Lezion, Seville 1570). It is not only the political theorists who are said to have found inspiration in Carantania, which pretty much showed it was possible for a people to live relatively peaceful together without an overt autocratic ruler -something that was pretty much the standard elsewhere, where rulers brutally enslaved the people they ruled- but the installation ceremony around the stone has proven very similar to ideas throughout Europe regarding the ceremonial installations of kings and rulers.

The most famous of them is the coronation stone that’s found in England, the fabled yellow sandstone ’stone of Scone’ (named after the Scottish monastery where the stone originally was found) which in 1296 was placed under the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey, is nevertheless inspiring. It is associated with the crowning of all historic Scottish Kings and its older name is indicative of almost religious sentiment, ’stone of Destiny’, or ‘Liag Fil’ in Scottish Gaelic. Its transfer from Scotland to England was to be the symbol that the kings of England would be crowned as kings of Scotland also.

Ironically, after the initial fame that the Carantanians enjoyed in the international world, their story later was pretty much hidden, because of the political situation, and political repression by jealous Serbs. The belated intrigue is however all the more interesting. It is likely that there is even some substance to claims that the Prince’s stone was used for similar purposes as other stones in Europe on which kings and queens used to be and are still installed.

Some people say that there are links between the stone ceremonies. The stone that used to be in Scotland and that lies now beneath the chair in Westminster Abbey is subject to similar romantic stories as the Carantanian one. It is claimed -though not proven- that this is actually the very same stone that Jacob in the Bible rested his head on and that was apparently dragged around by Moses.

There is no real clarity around the Carantanian prince’s stone’s use prior to the installation ceremony that is conclusive, yet it’s likely linked to Celts.

The installation of the Duke took place on a hill named Krnski grad (Karnburg) in Carinthia, on a meadow where the Prince`s Stone still lies. Historic records reveal this to have been the format of the installation ceremony:

“The new duke, accompanied with the banner of the country, surrounded by nobles and knights, walks up to the hill. With one hand he leads a spotted bull and with the other, a black and white war horse. He puts aside his precious vestments, and then they dress him in a gray coat and gird him with a red belt from which hangs a big red hunting bag, such as it is suitable for the master of the hunts. Into it he has to put cheese, bread and other food. They give him a hunting horn firmly bound with red straps. Besides this, they put two shoes wrapped with red thongs on his feet. They wrap him in a gray cloak and then place on his head a gray Slovenian hat with a gray cord.A free peasant mounts the prince`s Stone. This office belongs to him by right of succession and is hereditary in his family. The duke carries in his hand a stick and comes forward. Alongside him are walking the Count Palatine, the landgrave, and other nobles.

The peasant sitting on the Stone proclaims in Slovene language: Who is he that comes forward?” And those sitting around him answer: He is the prince of the land.” After this, he asks: Is he an upright judge seeking the well-being of the country, is he freeborn and deserving? Is he a foster and defender of the Christian faith?” All answer: He is and he will be.” The peasant then asks: By what right can he displace me from this my seat?” The people reply: He will pay you sixty denari, and he will give you your home free and without tribute.” Whereupon the peasant, after giving the duke a gentle stroke on his cheek, proffers him the place. The duke mounts on the Stone and, drawing his sward, turns in all directions in order to show that he will be a righteous judge to all. And it is narrated that the duke then takes a drink of cold water out of a rustic hat, so that the people, seeing this, may not crave for wine, but may be content with what the native soil produces to sustain life. Finally, they lift him onto a horse and conduct him around the Stone three times. At the same time all of them sing their Slovenian Kirie-Eleison, praising God, because they have been given a new ruler in accordance with His will.”

A truly splendid affair, ancient democracy.

Angelique van Engelen is a freelance writer living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She runs a copy writing agency and can be employed to tailor make your articles, content, brochures, research, news, features. Angeliqueve@contentClix.com

The United States has never done a full study on the economic losses caused by the toll ways, which impede our daily lives and the flow of our transportation. Transportation is vital to the health of a nation, its GDP and the flow of commerce and trade. Each time we put up a barrier or tax something we slow down our civilization and that has a ripple effect which extends past the regions where those toll ways are. Toll Ways are a tax on civilization and make no sense because they slow economic progress and therefore cause a decrease in economic output and the over all tax base of payroll and sales tax. In the end we all lose. But how much did we lose and how much are we losing each day?

All toll ways should disappear in all states. Interstate toll ways and highways should become freeways. This increases flow and removes the cancer and build up blocking arteries of the transportation life-line. We should take all the information we know about flows and information and use them to keep our systems safe. We take all the traffic information, weather information, daytime population migrations, census data and we put it all together and display it on a 4-D model we can watch and study to improve traffic flow;

By doing this we can see what the roads on the NY Toll way into NYC are doing with pot holes the size of wheel barrels and destroying truck undercarriages and suspensions on even the Hummer SUVs. Giving your hard earned money to pay toll and then being subjected to bumpy roads, which are ruining your car. Imagine paying to drive on a road when you cannot even keep from having your Big Gulp or Starbucks popping out of the drink holders. This is modern bureaucracy at best and highway robbery at least.

Eliminating our toll ways will provide faster and more efficient flows to our civilization. When we finally wake up, we will understand just how much. We are clogging our arteries and it is killing us. Think about it.

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War.

Economic concerns.

Poor business.

Unemployment.

It sure looks bad, doesn’t it?

But I also want to remind you that we have lived, survived and prospered though far worse times.

For example:

In 1780 George Washington said, “We are without money; and have been so for a great length of time…”

He went on to create an estate worth three-quarters of a million dollars when he died.

In 1840 a traveler wrote, “So great is the panic, and so dreadful the distress, that there are a great many farms prepared to receive crops, and some of them actually planted, and yet deserted, not a human being to be found upon them.”

But we got over that problem, too.

In 1857 an editorial stated, “It is a gloomy moment in history. Not for many years—not in the lifetime of most men who read this newspaper—has there been so much grave and deep apprehension.”

That passed, as well.

In 1873 this country had a panic that shook the nation. A newspaper wrote:

“All over the country manufacturers are closing their works and discharging their operatives, simply because they can neither sell the goods they make nor borrow money to carry them until the demand for them revives.”

Yet we survived that panic, too.

In 1893 one man wrote of the troubling times he saw:

“I have been through all the panics of the last thirty years, but I have never seen one in which the distress was so widespread and reached so many people who had previously not been affected as this panic of 1893.”

And we got through that one, too.

We also got through the Great Depression of 1929, two World Wars, and even the Y2K panic.

What appears to be gloom and doom is often just the focus of the media. Consider what Gandhi once said:

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it… always.”

I could go on and on. The point is this: Life will always have ups and downs. The secret is to flow with the tide as best we can. Complaining about what is keeps you from spotting or even creating new opportunities.

In every panic, in every generation, men and women with eyes wide open saw and seized opportunities.

Whether it was George Washington who went on to become president and build his own fortune, or P.T. Barnum who went on to prosper during the Civil War, the fact remains:

Circumstances don’t make you, you make you.

This “bad time” might become the greatest period of prosperity for you.

Maybe you just have to relax your demands. In 1941 Bruce Barton wrote, “I have been out of a job three times in my life. Each time I made a survey of my surroundings and discovered that there was work to be done, though not the same kind of work I had been doing.”

Barton was a best-selling author, Congressman, popular speaker, and founder of one of the largest advertising agencies in the world, BBDO. He also became a millionaire.

And don’t fall for the trap that the past was better than the present. In 1907 the famous tycoon John Rockefeller said:

“People sometimes talk as if we older men lived in a day of peculiar opportunity, as if there were no chance today for a young man to do what has been done by my generation of men, as if all the avenues were closed, all the big things done. Nothing could be more mistaken. Why, the time in which I opened my eyes was a midnight of darkness, and this is blazing noon.”

A word to the wise: Listen, act and prosper.

There are opportunities around you.

Which will you see first and act on now?

This is your time of blazing noon.

River Birch Trees are fairly easy to plant because they are fairly rugged and durable. Yet to plant or transplant them you do need to follow some basic guidelines. Two of the best cultivars or River Birch trees are Dura Heat and Heritage River Birches. We have been growing River Birch Trees for a number of years and offer these suggestions for planting in and around Dublin Pa..

All people handling Dura Heat and Heritage River Birches seedlings and small trees need to help with the life support of your plants. Seedlings are like fish out of water and need care which is often overlooked between the time the seedlings are lifted and transplanted. Improper care means higher mortality. Do not try and reinvent the wheel. You must protect seedling from moisture and temperature extremes, as well as physical damage. Seedlings are living and should be handled carefully. For a higher survival rate, treat trees carefully and plant them immediately. I like to have a backup plan for planting if the weather turns bad. I will sometimes switch from lining out the seedlings to potting them up if I realize that the soil conditions will not be right for an extended lenght of time. If planting must be delayed a few days, keep the plants in a cold, protected place with air circulation between the trees. Keep the Dura Heat and Heritage River Birches trees out of the rain and wind. To check if the trees need water, feel the media at the roots.. If it isn’t damp, water the trees and allow the excess water to drain. In cool, damp weather, the biggest threat to these trees is from mold. Try to keep out of soil seedlings moist by either restricting water loss with a water vapor barrier or by wetting the roots at regular intervals. While handling or planting try to reduce temperature and air movement around the seedlings. Windy days can dry out seedlings so consider waiting for calmer weather. Once your soil conditions are correct OUR FREE USE PLANTERS will make planting a snap so its will be worth waiting for good planting conditions.

HOW TO PLANT

Ideal planting days are cool and cloudy with little or no wind. If possible, avoid planting on warm, windy days. The soil should be moist not wet. Care in planting is more important than speed. Make sure the roots are never allowed to become dry. Bare root seedlings should be carried in a waterproof bag or bucket with plenty of moist material packed around the roots to keep them damp. Ideally, bare root boxes should be kept refrigerated or packed in ice or snow. Don’t freeze the trees. Competition from weeds, grass, brush or other trees is very detrimental to survival and growth of seedlings. Choose areas free from this competition or clear at least a three-foot square bare spot before planting. Seedlings should not be planted under the crown of existing trees, or closer than 6 feet to existing brush. Avoid areas near walnut trees. Brush aside loose organic material such as leaves, grass, etc., from the planting spot to expose mineral soil. If organic matter gets into the planting hole, it can decompose and leave air spaces. Roots will dry out when they grow into these spaces. Open up the hole, making sure the hole is deep enough for the roots to be fully extended. If roots are curled or bunched up, the tree will not be able to take up water correctly, will often weaken and die, or may blow down later due to poor root structure. Take a tree out of your planting bag or bucket only after a hole is ready. When exposed, the fine roots can dry out in as little as 30 seconds. Seedling shoots and roots lose water to air, roots require more protecting.Unlike leaves ,they do not have stomata (closeable openings on the surface of the leaves) or any waxy coatings to help reduce water loss. If the Dura Heat and Heritage River Birches roots apear dry they are probably dead. Now I know you are thinking,”I will place them in a buckect of water and store them there until planting”. This will not work. Submerge plants for no longer that a couple of minutes. Placing them in water cuts them off from oxygen. Remember to remove the container before planting a containerized tree. A helpful hint to all those new gardeners just starting is to remember to always plant green side up. Hold the seedling in place in the hole, making sure the roots are straight, fully extended and that the tree is neither too shallow or too deep in the hole. Fill hole, allowing soil to fall in around the roots. Tamp with hands or with your heel. Don’t crush the roots by jumping up and down around the seedling like there is a snake curled up around the seedling. It is delicate. Fill with more soil, if necessary, and tamp. Tamping is important. If soil is not firmly packed around the roots, there will be air pockets that can dry out the roots, and the seedlings may be weakly anchored. It is far easier to plant the tree strait up then have the tree leaning and have to adjust the tree later. (Addition of fertilizer and plant vitamins at the time of planting is not generally necessary.) Take your time in planting. Proper spacing will help you grow a more valuable crop. I have tried to get more production from a limited area by over planting and then thinning, but I always have had trouble in harvesting …. digging is slower and poor quality usually results for a portion of the crop. Avoid these tree planting errors:

Tangled roots Planting too shallow Planting too deep Air pockets Turned up roots (this is called J rooting) Planting trees that are not tolerant of wet soils in poorly drained areas Planting over rocks, septic tanks and leach fields, on sand mounds

CARE OF TREES FOLLOWING PLANTING Check periodically to be sure that brush, grass and other vegetation is kept under control by mowing, mulching, spraying or a combination of these treatments. Always obtain advice from a licensed pest control advisor before using chemicals. You ag extension agency may offer courses in application of chemicals. Monitoring the appearance of your trees will help you to detect signs of insects, diseases or other problems. Apperances also help sell your product. Look for foliage turning yellow, new foliage drooping or other signs of poor health. It is easier to take successful corrective action if the problem is detected early.

Over watering is a common problem in irrigated plantations. You probably won’t need to water more frequently than every 7-10 days. Give your trees a thorough, deep soak and then let the soil dry out before the next watering. This encourages the roots to grow down in search of water. Frequent, shallow watering encourages root growth near the surface and the trees are more dependent on irrigation and are less windfirm. Animals can be a major cause of damage to young trees. Porcupines, gophers, mice, rabbits, deer and cattle are the most frequent source of damage. In many states you may have to call your game commission and get their recomendations on legal methods to protect your crop. In our state, you can get help from the Pa. Game Commission to kill deer that are a threat to your seedlings or obtain a free fence to keep deer away from your seedlings. Over the years we have lost more trees to mice than any other animal. Put rat baits out on a regular basis. Over the years we have lost more seedlings and plants to mice than any other culprit including deer and rabbitts combined. You can see other articles written by Bill Hirst about trees, plants, and shrubs at http://www.zone5trees.com http://seedlingsrus.com/Arborvitae.html http://seedlingsrus.com/FreeFencing.html http://seedlingsrus.com/Winter http://zone5trees.com/Hedges http://zone5trees.com/PlantingInstructions.html http://zone5trees.com/ProfitsGrowingTrees.html com

Yearly it’s the unvaried tale. In spite of cycling to the office, and an occasional hill climb, every winter season starts enduring those painful first couple of tours in which Im left in the tracks of younger and abler skiing friends.

Being in bad shape while touring it’s awful, and could be extremely severe. Skiing down you need to have spare capacity. A tired skier is more likely to have skiing injuries and tiredness can be a contributory element to incidents, such as trips and avalanches.

There must be a easier manner to begin the ski season, and a lately brought out 307 page book by Mellissa Campbell, who has previously penned Geneva to Chamonix - A Walker’s Guide, seems to tender a resolution. Though directed at climbers the information is largely practical to skiing, with its strenuous climbs besides different hobbies.

Climbing, training for top performance is adequately detailed and easily read. It’s a fine well rounded manual which assembles some poignant research. You can evolve a particular training program or improve your existing programme. Granted that it’s calculated for mountaineers, therefore some info will be inapplicable for touring, it’s definitely an account to buy if you would like to do several of the big day or multi-day ski tours.

Former Governor of Alaska, Jay Hammond, died at age 83, peacefully at his home in Lake Clark, Alaska. He served Alaska as its Governor from 1974 to 1982, the years during which Alaska built an incredible oil pipeline, banked a large amount of the oil lease revenues, and created a dividend program that every resident of Alaska benefits from yearly.

Very few men are ever fortunate enough to be so productive during their public life. Not surprisingly, Jay Hammond was respected and admired by a huge population. He was the “quintessential Alaskan,” as state senator Fred Dyson put it.

Jay Hammond came to Alaska following his service as a Marine fighter pilot during World War II. He bought an amphibious plane and worked as a bush pilot and trapper. Later he worked for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. He developed a keen eye for protecting and preserving the environment. Even as a developer of Alaska’s natural resources, Hammond ensured that development did not proceed at the expense of environmental protection.

Hammond was elected to the state legislature in 1959 and served several terms. He then became mayor of the Bristol Bay Borough and served as a state senator. In 1974 he was elected Governor for the first of two terms.

During his tenure as Governor, Hammond oversaw the building and the opening of the Alaska Pipeline, the oil pipeline that runs from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez. He preserved a large portion of the oil lease revenues in the form of a Permanent Fund. The Fund has been in existence now for over 25 years, a form of saving account for the state.

The Permanent Fund might have been spent any number of times, but Hammond inspired the State to create a Dividend program to provide incentive for keeping the Fund intact. The Dividend program provides a yearly payment to every resident of Alaska. The Permanent Fund is like a large pension fund that every Alaskan is proud of and benefits from. Thanks to Jay Hammond, the Fund enjoys protection and will remain in place for many years to come.

Jay Hammond and his wife, Bella, lived for the past many years at Lake Clark where they homesteaded originally 50 years ago. Lake Clark is an awesome and gorgeous large lake in the Aleutian chain of mountains not too far from Anchorage via float plane. Remember, it was the adventure of being a float plane pilot that brought Hammond to Alaska originally.

Hammond was a humble man and displayed a warm sense of humor. Once, during a re-election debate in 1978, he was asked if he believed he was the best choice to be Governor. Hammond replied, “No, there are plenty of other Alaskans who can do a much better job than I could. Unfortunately, none of them are running.”

The consensus was that Jay Hammond was the best man for the job, and he will be remembered that way.

Riding a bike is great exercise for your legs, but what about the rest of your body? There is a bike where you stand up above the small wheels and it has handlebars for you to hold on too. The way to get this bike going is to sway your body back and forth and push down on the place that is under your feet. This is such a great way to get exercise in because to get this bike moving you have to use all of your muscles, not just your leg muscles. We are talking about every single muscle in the body, from your arm muscles, abdominal muscles, to your quad muscles.

If you have never experienced this for yourself, it is highly recommended. You could take the Acceletrim fast weight loss solution before you go out on the bike and get your metabolism going faster and your health improving. It is good to go on a variety of angles, sometimes riding on a flat surface, to uphill, then to downhill. The variety will really make sure that you use each and every muscle in your body, you don’t want to leave any of them out. It is also really good for you balance and eye hand coordination amongst everything else positive. There are many commercials about this type of bike and you can also find a great deal of information about this three wheel bike online.

“The possibility of a purely psychological explanation is illusory, for a large number of observations point to a natural phenomenon, or even a physical one - for instance, those explicable by reflections from ‘temperature inversions’ in the atmosphere. Despite its contradictory statements, the American Air Force, as well as the Canadian, considers the sightings to be ‘real’, and have set up special bureaus to collect the reports. The ‘disks’, however, the objects themselves, do not behave in accordance with physical laws but as though they were weightless, and they show signs of INTELLIGENT GUIDANCE such as would suggest quasi-human pilots. Yet the accelerations are so tremendous that no human being could survive them.”
-from Carl Jung, FLYING SAUCERS

Popular Mechanics from May, 2001 has a cover story that’ll make you wonder.
“WHEN UFOs LAND
At long last, scientists have their hands on the proof skeptics say doesn’t exist–physical evidence of flying saucers.
*****The rich really are different. When Laurence S. Rockefeller–yes, those Rockefellers–wanted to know more about UFOs, he didn’t have to satisfy his curiosity at alien-hunters’ Web sites or in the Weird Science section of Barnes & Noble. He asked Peter A Sturrock, the former director of the Center for Space Science and Astrophysics at Stanford University, to convene a private meeting of a dozen top scientists at the Pocantico Conference Center, on the grounds of the old Rockefeller family estate 20 miles north of Manhattan. Sturrock’s guest list and agenda was noteworthy for its omissions. Bob Lazar, who claimed to have reverse-engineered UFOs at Area 5l, wasn’t invited. Neither was alien-buster Philip J. Klass of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Roswell, the ‘face’ on Mars and other familiar sightings got little attention. Instead, researchers from Princeton University, Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Center for Space Research in France focused on cases with more meat on their bones–sightings in which physical evidence was left behind. ‘While their findings were not conclusive. I hope (they) will raise the level of the debate.’ Rockefeller said afterward.

‘Ask most scientists -what they think of the UFO enigma and you will almost certainly get a scoff and a brushoff like, ‘There’s not one shred of evidence,’ says Bernard Raisch, an astronomer with more than 100 scientific publications to his credit. ‘That answer is simply not true. The problem is that this evidence does not follow our expected scientific logic, and so scientists dismiss what is, in fact a large number of accounts. Many sighting reports {Including Jimmy Carter.}, as absurd as they sometimes appear, are probably real. Most professional scientists never bother to look at the evidence. Instead, the dogmatic dismissals by professional debunkers, which are often patently ridiculous, are simply taken at face value.’

As you will see for yourself, some of the cases discussed at Pocantico are difficult for even die-hard skeptics to ignore.

In 1957, a UFO reportedly exploded after hitting the water near the town of Ubatuba, Brazil. Metallic debris collected by a physician, turned out to be composed of an extremely high grade of magnesium.

Recently declassified documents explain what it might have been. During the 1960s, the U. S. Air Force experimented with electrostatic drives. In theory, lift and propulsion can be created by imparting airframes with an electric charge that matches, and therefore repels, the surrounding air. Such an aircraft would require enormous amounts of electric power, and the Air Force seemed to know how to create it. Other declassified documents reveal the Air Force had built compact nuclear reactors small enough to fly on an aircraft. It had also experimented with a device known as a magnetohydrodynamic generator (MHD) to extract large amounts of electricity from a fast-moving stream of molten metal. Engineers familiar with such systems say that if MHD units were to become unstable, some of the metal circulating in the unit would have to be ejected.

UFO investigators sent a portion of the Ubatuba material to the Air Force for analysis. It was ‘accidentally’ destroyed before tests could be completed. (Insets: A sample of the Ubatuba debris examined under microscope revealed a higher level of purity than occurs in nature.)

POLICE CRUISER BLACKOUT
Luis Delgado was a 28-year-old patrolman for the Haines City, Fla., police department when he became part of one of the most compelling UFO sightings. It happened about 3:50 am, on March 19, 1992. Delgado noticed a rapidly descending green light in his rearview mirror as he drove down a street alongside a citrus grove. The light seemed to keep pace with his cruiser, until he slowed down. Then the silent dome-shaped object flew overhead, filling his police cruiser with a brilliant green glow. He pulled to a stop, and the power in his vehicle went dead. For the next several minutes he stood outside his car watching the 15-ft.-wide craft hover silently in front of him. It seemed to float about 10 ft. off the ground; cooling the surrounding air to the point at which it formed a foggy mist {Tesla unified force field and extraction of earth energy?}. Then, just as quickly as it appeared, it sped away. Delgado returned to his car, and found the electrical system was again operating.

‘The scientific panel was very impressed by cases in which electrical equipment was disrupted,’ says Michael D. Swords, of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich. A conference participant at Pocantico, Swords told POPULAR MECHANICS that this type of encounter is far more common than most people realize. UFO investigator Mark Rodeghier of the Center for UFO Studies in Chicago told the conference at Pocantico that over the past 50 years more than 500 similar reports had been filed. What distinguishes the Delgado sighting is the inherent credibility of the observer. As a police officer, Delgado had nothing to gain–and possibly a great deal to lose–by coming forward with his account.

TRANS-EN-PROVENCE
For UFO investigators, the most disappointing aspect of the Delgado sighting isn’t the absence of evidence, but the way evidence has been allowed to simply disappear through neglect. Samples of the nearby road and vegetation were never collected. No radiation measurements of the area were made.

UFO researchers in France take the scientific investigations of unexplained aerial phenomena more seriously than those in the United States. The Center for Space Research, France’s counterpart to NASA, even has a team that swings into action when these types of events occur. The team is called GEPAN, after the French acronym for Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Study Group.

GEPAN investigator Jean-Jacques Velasco told the Pocantico conference the details of what is perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time, the Trans-en-Provence incident.

Renato Nicolai didn’t think he had seen a UFO, but instead a secret military aircraft that had strayed from its test site. A contractor who had for about two years when the episode occurred on Jan. 8, 1981, Nicolai was working on his terrace in the late afternoon when he heard a faint whistling. In the distance he saw a lead-coloured object, about 5 ft. high, a bit wider in diameter, and shaped like a pair of inverted bowls, fall from the sky. It came to a floating stop about 6 ft. above the ground. For the next half-minute he observed the object, and then watched it rise into the sky, creating a small trail of dust. ‘When my wife came home in the evening, I told her what I had seen,’ he said in his official report. ‘My wife thought I was joking.’ The following morning, he showed her where it had hovered and the two of them spotted circular traces it had left in the ground {Photos included.}. Neighbors suggested they tell the police. Through the police, word reached GEPAN, which routinely checks to see whether such sightings are of a military activity or an aircraft. When both were rules out, GEPAN interviewed Nicolai and collected soil from the area where the object had reportedly hovered. The mystery only deepened. There was black material mixed with the soil, but chemical analysis ruled out combustion residue, oil or concrete. Later analyses showed the soil had been contaminated with traces of metal, and the surrounding vegetation showed subtle damage.

Something happened in Trans-en-Provence, but to this day no one is certain of what that was.

METAL RAIN
… says Jacques F. Vallee… in detailing the episode. When onlookers arrived at the impact point on a small levee, they found a 4-in.-thick mass of molten, red-orange metal covering the frozen ground, about 16 ft. from the road. The metal mass was still glowing 15 minutes later when Mike Moore’s father, assistant fire chief Jack Moore, arrived.

After the metal had cooled, Robert Allen, a local astronomer, collected samples. Part of the roughly 40-pound slab went to the U.S. Air Force’s Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. A portion also went to the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University. The Air Force never made its analysis public, but in a letter assured local authorities that ‘re-entering spacecraft debris does not impact the earth’s surface in a molten state.’ In his report, Ames Laboratory director Robert S. Hansen ruled out a meteor.

… The Council Bluffs episode was not unique. At the Pocantico conference, Vallee said that in at least nine other sightings, aerial objects in distress were accompanied by the ejection of molten metal. ‘Reports of unusual metallic residue following the observation of an unexplained aerial phenomenon are detailed enough for a comparative study to be undertaken.’

TRUE SKEPTICS NEEDED
Bernard Haisch, a former Lockheed scientist who had served on the Rockefeller panel in 1997, believes it is time for the scientific community to become more skeptical in the truest sense of the word. ‘We need to be skeptical of both the believers and the scoffers,’ he told PM during a visit to the California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Palo Alto, Calif., where he is currently director. To this end, Haisch recently created www.ufoskeptic.org. The Web site encourages mainstream scientists to reconsider the UFO phenomenon in light of recent advances in physics, such as superstring and M-brane theories, which postulate the existence of multidimensional space. ‘I’ve learned quite a bit about the UFO phenomenon over the years, certainly more than I bargained for. UFO sightings are not limited to farmers in backward rural areas. There are astronomers, and pilots and NASA engineers, who have witnessed events for which there is no plausible conventional explanation.’” (3)

The important thing about this article is not the content but the publication itself. This is not ‘UFO Magazine’: this is a conservative factual publication with an excellent track record of telling the facts. We wonder about the honesty or what is being called transparency in other areas. Is there any reason to believe anything you hear from a government that creates massive schemes to deny the facts and counter-counter contingencies to maintain existing lies? The Congressional hearings on Roswell or the JFK assassination are fine examples. How can the ‘one bullet theory’ still be supported? The current Bush administration is committed to another SDI gambit and they talk about rogue states such as Korea launching missiles. Dr Wright of the Center for Concerned Scientists from MIT acts as an apparent decent ‘foil’ when he points out the threat of such ballistic missiles is unrealistic. The Koreans would deliver their weapons by ship and assemble it like the Iranians in a city of their choice.

I think the threats of nuclear weapons are minimal when compared to the ability to foul-up the power grid and blow up refineries and the like from a computer anywhere in the world. The really scary thing that we have seen in a ‘60 Minutes’ program in 2000 is the fact that an individual accessed the super secret Cheyenne Mountain military installation from a laptop computer. Thus the nuclear weapons can be turned upon the builders themselves. Far more dangerous than nuclear is the biologics or germ warfare. We have dealt with the matter of laser diffusion and targeting in the words of Dr. Robins the solid state chemist/inventor. He correctly states the only way to make these SDI technological missile shields is through X-Ray lattices with more concentrated beams. There are probably things we aren’t being told. Why spend all this money? Is there a rogue alien group who actually might invade through space without time or ultra light speed technology? Is it possible that the missile shields are going to use lasers to protect the government in case of a citizen revolt when they mount another coup d’etat such as they did in the JFK situation? The aliens appear to have more advanced technology that might be able to cloak their equipment such as the U.S. was attempting in the USS Eldridge.

I doubt Korea or aliens are the intended targets. The Russians were never likely to mount a nuclear attack. If you want to wipe out all life on earth there are airborne biologics. The question should be (in every citizens’ mind) when will they tell us whether their underground shelters and nuclear subs are able to filter the air against these real and horrific threats? If they are safe to wage war without a threat to their family and friends, then WE are the only ones at risk! The Swiss government has cities built inside mountains to house all their people.

If a simple analogy might do the trick, let me draw a small illustration. If you had a person in your life that lied to you all the time would you trust them? When the U.S. taps in to Canada’s secret computer net in order to make better trade deals or when they have leaders who frame ‘patsies’ for the benefit of creating stories to make their citizens buy some confusing array of lies why believe them? Is there not a real need to expose their own secret agencies and rogue elements?

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ROBBINSDALE, Minn. - Innocent victims are faced with confrontational crimes of violence every day, and the old assumption that resistance to the crime is futile has now been proven to be false.

In a unique partnership, a gun shop and a martial arts instructor have teamed up to provide a self-protection training class for the public. The class teaches simple methods of “humane self-defense” without the use of any type of weapon.

“Protecting yourself or a loved one from violence is imperative in today’s environment. Using only the appropriate level of force is the law. Doing no more harm than absolutely necessary is what we mean by ‘humane self-defense,’” explained Scot Combs of Full Circle Self Defense.

It has been a common belief that it is better to offer no resistance to attackers, but now a study from the Florida State Univ. department of criminology indicates the opposite. The study found that people who use self-protection strategies reduce their likelihood of injury when compared to those who use non-resistance.

The Tactics Training Center at Bill’s Gun Shop and Range has teamed up with Combs and Full Circle Self Defense of Blaine, Minn. to offer the public an opportunity to learn how simple it is to take protective action when confronted with acts of violence.

“People have no trouble locking their homes and cars, or installing alarm systems as a form of self-protection. They also need to know the right way to respond to a personal attack,” said Combs. “It is imperative that they neither over-respond or under-respond.”

The course is open to the public and provides specific training in the methods of humane self-defense, which does not involve the use of any type of weapons. Participants are taught to use non-lethal techniques. The methods are easy to learn, practice, and put into use if needed.

“The use of deadly force is an absolute last resort. The legally armed citizen must have the ability to use less than lethal force, should the situation warrant it. The ‘humane self-defense’ seminars provide realistic training in viable options for conflict resolution. Everyone should have these excellent tools for personal protection,” said Leonard M. Breure, PhD, training coordinator for the Tactics Training Center. The course focuses on simple, effective, humane methods of personal protection. These are proven techniques that anyone can master. There is a special emphasis on methods of avoidance and escape. The topics of awareness, victim profiles, attacker profiles, the law and liability are fully discussed and explained.

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