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"The
difference between the almost right word and the right word
is really a large mattertis the difference between the
lightning-bug and the lightning." - Mark Twain
The opposite of a
correct statement is a false statement.
The opposite of a profound truth may well be another
profound truth.
Niels Bohr (1885-1962), physicist
"Beware the man
of one book."
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274), Theologian,
philosopher
Life is not a
journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly
proclaiming:
WOW - What a Ride!"
"Consciously or
unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we
like."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"We Lakota have
a close relationship to the buffalo. He is our brother. You
can't understand about nature, about the feeling we have
toward it, unless you understand how close we were to the
buffalo. That animal was almost like a part of ourselves,
part of our souls." Lame Deer, Lakota
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A CAT NAMED LUCKY
I sure hope
you paid
your taxes 21 million illegal aliens are depending on you.
Father-Daughter Talk
A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.
One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school.
Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.
Her father listened and then asked, 'How is your friend Audrey doing?' She replied, 'Audrey is barely getting by.
All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties, and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over.' Her wise father asked his daughter, 'Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.' The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, 'That's a crazy idea, how would that be fair! I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree.
She played while I worked my tail off!' The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, 'Welcome to the Republican party.'.
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The FCC will soon decide
how much radio spectrum to reserve for a
state-of-the-art emergency response system for
police, firefighters and ambulance crews, The Wall
Street Journal reports With broadcasters freeing up
analog spectrum as they convert to digital, a battle
is brewing between commercial interests and those
that want to reserve spectrum for emergency
services.
"The country's not going to have this
opportunity again in my generation," says
Janice Obuchowski, a telecom official in the first
Bush administration whose new company, Frontline
Wireless, is one of several with mixed-use proposals
on the table. "There's no other spectrum this
attractive that is not occupied," Ms.
Obuchowski says.
The FCC is auctioning off some 60 megahertz to
commercial wireless businesses but pressure is now
building to hold back some of that spectrum. Between
turning it all over to industry or holding more of
it back for public use, some people are recommending
a Third Way: public/private partnerships.
Frontline Wireless proposes to take half of the 24
megahertz spectrum already set aside by Congress for
emergency purposes, bid in the auction for an
additional 10 megahertz, and then build a broadband
network for joint use, giving priority access to
emergency services during crises. Backing the plan,
Ms. Obuchowski joined forces with Reed Hundt, FCC
chairman during the Clinton administration, and
Haynes Griffin, a founder of Vanguard Cellular
Systems Inc., which was bought by AT&T in
1998.
An earlier proposal backed by Nextel would have sold
half the 60 megahertz to a nonprofit trust for joint
use. That was rejected by lawmakers but is still
supported by first-responder groups. Some lawmakers
think the 24 megahertz already promised is
enough.
"The burden of proof rests with those who
advocate that an even greater amount of spectrum
should be made available to emergency services over
and above what they have already been given,"
says Rep. Rick Boucher of Virginia, an influential
Democrat on the House Commerce Committee.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin seems to signalling
preference for emergency use of the spectrum.
"In general, public-private partnerships do
serve a very valuable purpose and can achieve very
good goals," Mr.
Martin says. "But in this case, you've got to
make sure that when first responders have an
emergency, they get the kind of access they
need."
Mr. Martin says the FCC could opt to set national
standards and leave it up to local emergency
services to find the funds to build a broadband
service that fits their needs. The FCC chairman says
the Frontline plan raises questions because it
essentially seeks to limit bidders for the 10
megahertz of spectrum.
FROM ZDNET |
April 16, 2007
COUNTRY DESCRIPTION: Spain and Andorra are both highly developed and stable democracies with modern economies. Spain is a member of NATO and the European Union. For Additional information see the Department of State Background Notes on Spain and Andorra.
ENTRY/EXIT REQUIREMENTS: A passport is required for both countries. U.S. citizens can stay without a visa for a tourist/business stay of up to 90 days. That period begins when you enter any of the Schengen countries:
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. Individuals who enter Spain or Andorra without a visa are not authorized to work. American citizens planning to study in Spain should be aware that Spanish immigration regulations require applications for student visas to be submitted 60 days before anticipated travel to Spain.
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A London man with ties to the Outlaws motorcycle club is wanted on an arrest warrant after two London police officers were assaulted early yesterday at a downtown strip club.
Marcus Cornelisse, 32, is wanted on three counts of assaulting police.
Cornelisse pleaded guilty to shooting a rival biker near the Outlaws clubhouse in London six years ago.
He is considered "dangerous," Const. Darrin Brown said yesterday.
Two uniformed officers were conducting a criminal investigation at Solid Gold's, a strip bar at the corner of Dundas and Clarence streets, at about 1:15 a.m. yesterday.
The officers were speaking to a male staff member when the man punched one of the officers in the head and turned on the other officer, also striking him in the head.
When the second officer fell to the floor, the man kicked him in the head and in the back several times, police said.
The man ran out of the bar with the officers giving chase, police said.
The man then hit one of the officers again in the back of the head, police said.
"There were assaults inside the club and another one outside," Brown said.
The man escaped by running back into Solid Gold's and somehow finding his way out, police said.
Both officers were treated at Victoria Hospital for injuries and released, Brown said.
Police issued an arrest warrant for Cornelisse later in the day.
A former University of Western Ontario kinesiology student, Cornelisse pleaded guilty in October 2003 to two charges, including aggravated assault, for shooting a rival biker.
Eric Davignon and three other members of a puppet club of the rival Hells Angels raided a home next to the Outlaws club house on Egerton Street in January 2001, according to facts read into the court record.
The bikers wanted to talk to Cornelisse, but he fired a gun through his apartment door, shooting Davignon in the abdomen.
Cornelisse disappeared. He turned up the next year in Michigan where he was serving a 10-month sentence for assault.
He was sentenced to two years in jail.
Nanostellar, which specializes in molecules and materials for making diesel engines run more efficiently, has devised a new coating for the inside of catalytic converters--devices that reduce emissions before they leave a car's tailpipe--that will both cost less than traditional coatings and cut down further on pollution.
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Bill Taylor Feature Writer
Sometimes, Hells Angels just wanna have fun.
This pair in Amsterdam, for instance, with their brutish, snorting Harley-Davidsons, death's head vests, tattoos, shorts and sneakers. (And black socks? A fashion crime on top of everything else that's been levelled against them.)
On one side of the continent, the Toronto police have just taken possession temporarily at least; bikers have good lawyers of the Eastern Ave. headquarters of one of the Angels' newest chapters. On the other, in Oakland, Calif., the "mother chapter" is celebrating its golden anniversary. Let angelic joy be unconfined.
Much has been written about the Hells Angels in recent years, especially as almost overnight Ontario's Golden horseshoe went from having two Angels to arguably the largest concentration in the world.
There are chapters in more than 20 countries. Members call themselves outlaws (as opposed to Outlaws, which is a rival biker organization) and sport a "1%" badge to dissociate themselves from the straight-and-narrow-walking majority. Law-enforcement agencies routinely label them as a criminal organization, accused of everything from drug pushing to pimping to murder.
And then you walk down one of "their" streets and see an urban fortress emblazoned with huge, colourful Hells Angel logos. Which, with great corporate acumen, the motorcycle club (they don't like being called a gang) long since copyrighted.
It would hardly be more incongruous for the Mafia to put "La Cosa Nostra" in flashing neon outside their strongholds. Or to hold annual toy drives for children's charities; or organize rock festivals and motorcycle drag races; or maintain sophisticated websites; or run stores selling "support" merchandise, all of which the Angels do.
But, to quote an old Hells Angel saw, "When we do good, no one remembers. When we do bad, no one forgets."
Then there's: "Treat me good and I'll treat you better. Treat me bad and I'll treat you worse."
What's going on here?
A fair question. One to which the Angels would probably reply: if you have to ask, you'll never understand.
To be an Angel is to put the club above all else. Unswerving loyalty is a given. One of the original rules was that if an Angel got into a fight, even one-on-one, all others present would join in. It made for a lot of victories.
You cannot apply to join the Angels. You have to be invited. The same goes, of course, for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club.
"We don't recruit members," is another Hells Angel tenet. "We recognize them."
By no means do all members have criminal records. In 2002, a phalanx of 50 motorcycles in the Queen's Golden Jubilee parade was led by the president of the London Hells Angels chapter in all his club finery. And as the torch was carried to Los Angeles for the 1984 Olympics, one of the bearers was an Angel.
The club had its beginnings in 1948 in San Bernardino, Calif.
"Berdoo" in biker parlance among disenchanted, disenfranchised World War II vets. They adopted the nickname of the U.S. Air Force's 303rd Bomber Group, which flew B-17s on daylight raids from England. The 303rd in turn had taken the name from the 1930 Howard Hughes movie about World War I fighter pilots.
There were only a handful of Angels until Ralph Hubert Barger, better known as Sonny, came on the scene. Barger, now 68 and still an active member, formed the Oakland chapter, which became world headquarters for the organization and gave San Francisco's gritty, grimy alter ego across the bay an international profile.
A self-confessed one-time drug dealer who's served 13 years of hard time, Barger long since gave up the Oakland presidency and now rides with the Cave Creek, Ariz., chapter. A bout of throat cancer means he breathes and talks through a plastic valve in his neck. He lives with his third wife, her daughter, three dogs and three cats. He raises horses, in a small way, and oversees Sonny Barger Productions. His website bills him as "American Legend." He markets everything from Sonny Barger "hellfire" barbecue sauce to Sonny Barger Lean & Mean Lager, "light, smooth and built for the long haul."
He's written (or co-written) his autobiography, a self-help book Freedom: Credos for the Road and a couple of biker-oriented whodunits. Reportedly in the works are a movie and a TV series, which Barger has described as "like The Sopranos with motorcycles." No word, as yet, on who will play Sonny.
Barger remains a very visible presence, returning to Oakland for last weekend's huge and absolutely by invitation only; gatecrashers will be stomped 50th anniversary party.
Also on hand, according to the city's Argus newspaper, were the current president, Cisco
Valderrama, and vice-president, "Fuzzy." Both are 61. Valderrama joined the Angels in 1966 and Fuzzy, a grandfather of two, in
1969.
The Argus story said Fuzzy has remarried and has a four-month-old child. The Oakland clubhouse, the paper reported, is sometimes used for baby showers. And one of the older Angels walks with the aid of a cane.
Which just goes to show though you may never gain a deeper comprehension that you can't keep a self-respecting Angel down. For good or ill or both, these guys will be around until they totter defiantly into the sunset on Zimmer frames with "ape-hanger" handlebars.
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Dhingra. The company combines gold along with platinum and palladium into a material called NS Gold that car and auto parts makers will sprinkle into a new line of cleaner catalytic converters. Ideally, NS Gold will increase oxidation activity, i.e. the chemical reaction that reduces pollutants, by about 40 percent compared with conventional catalytic converters and about 20 percent compared with the converters treated with materials Nanostellar already sells.
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"At the nano level, gold becomes very active, but until now no one has been able to make it for automotive use," he said in an interview. "You have high temperatures, a huge amount of oxygen. At high temperatures most materials are not stable."
Although gold at the nano level can assume different colors, NS Gold lives up to its name. At Nanostellar's lab in Redwood City, Calif., CNET News.com saw a beaker of the material swirling in a liquid. The mixture looked like the inside of an Orange Julius machine.
Rising fuel prices combined with fears about global warming have sparked interest in diesel cars. Traditional diesels can actually be somewhat dirty, emitting unburned fuel as well as carbon and nitrogen gases. But several European car manufacturers have developed diesels that burn much cleaner than their historical counterparts. Add to that the fact that diesel cars often last longer and can go farther on a gallon of fuel than traditional gas cars, and the new diesels start looking somewhat green.
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