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An ice bullet would still cause a bullet hole and thus wouldn't look at all like a heart attack. Come on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzIw44w00ow&feature=relatedCIA whistleblower talks about a gun that shoots a frozen dart of poison that mimicks a heart attack in the unfortunate victim.
CIA Whistleblower talks about Heart Attack gunhttp://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=11169
Assassinations by induced heart attack and cancerIn 1975, during the Church Committee hearings, the existence of a secret assassination weapon came to light. The CIA had developed a poison that caused the victim to have an immediate heart attack. This poison could be frozen into the shape of a dart and then fired at high speed from a pistol. The gun was capable of shooting the icy projectile with enough speed that the dart would go right through the clothes of the target and leave just a tiny red mark. Once in the body the poison would melt and be absorbed into the blood and cause a heart attack! The poison was developed to be undetectable by modern autopsy procedures.Can you give a person cancer? If cancer in animals can be caused by injecting them with cancer viruses and bacteria, it would certainly be possible to do the same with human beings! In 1931, Cornelius Rhoads, a pathologist from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, purposely infects human test subjects in Puerto Rico with cancer cells; 13 of them died. Though a Puerto Rican doctor later discovers that Rhoads purposely covered up some of the details of his experiment and Rhoads himself gives a written testimony stating he believes that all Puerto Ricans should be killed, he later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Fort Detrick Maryland (origin of the HIV/AIDS virus, the Avian Flu virus and the Swine Flu / A-H1N1 virus), Utah and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, where he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.The answer to the question – Can you give a person cancer – is yes. After nearly 80 years of research and development there is now a way to simulate a real heart attack and to give a healthy person cancer. Both have been used as a means of assassination. Only a very skilled pathologist, who knew exactly what to look for at an autopsy, could distinguish an assassination induced heart attack or cancer from the real thing.Is death by heart attack, burst aneurysm, of cerebral hemorrhage a "natural cause"? Not if government agencies have found a way to influence your heart rate, blood pressure, or vascular dilatation. Neurological research has found that the brain has specific frequencies for each voluntary movement called preparatory sets. By firing at your chest with a microwave beam containing the ELF signals given off by the heart, this organ can be put into a chaotic state, the so-called heart attack. In this way, high profile leaders of political parties who are prone to heart attacks can be killed off before they cause any trouble. Jack Ruby died of cancer a few weeks after his conviction for murder had been overruled in appeals court and he was ordered to stand trial outside of Dallas — thus allowing him to speak freely if he so desired. There was little hesitancy in Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald in order to prevent him from talking, so there is no reason to suspect that any more consideration would have been shown Jack Ruby if he had posed a threat to people in the US government who had conspired to murder the president of the United States – John F Kennedy.Matt Simmons, an oil industry expert, was assassinated for turning whistleblower over the Obama administration coverup of the BP Gulf Oil Spill. Investment banker Matt Simmons, who died suddenly, was an energy industry insider and presidential adviser whose profile soared when he wrote that Saudi Arabia is running out of oil and world production is peaking. Simmons, 67, died at his vacation home in Maine. An autopsy by the state medical examiner's office concluded Monday that he died from accidental drowning "with heart disease as a contributing factor."His 2005 best-selling book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, brought him a wider audience. The book argued that Saudi Arabia vastly overstated the size of its oil reserves and that the world was on the verge of a severe oil shortage as the largest oil fields become depleted. This revelation is backed up by Iran. Iran knows the Middle East oil supply is quickly drying up and for that reason it is now focusing on building nuclear reactors. Once the oil runs out Iran will be the only country in the Middle East that will be energy self-sufficient. All of the other Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia will become Third World impoverished states.Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was also assassinated. He was found dead in the detention centre at The Hague tribunal. Mr Milosevic faced charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged central role in the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo during the 1990s. He also faced genocide charges over the 1992-95 Bosnia war, in which 100,000 people died.Milosevic wrote a letter one day before his death claiming he was being poisoned to death in jail. An autopsy verified his claim as it showed that Milosevic's body contained a drug that rendered his usual medication for high blood pressure and his heart condition ineffective, causing the heart attack that led to his death.Former MI6 agent Richard Tomlinson told reporters that he saw documents in 1992 that discussed assassinating Milosevic by means of a staged car accident, where the driver would be blinded by a flash of light and remote controlled brake failure enacted to cause the crash. This exact same technique was utilized for real in the murder of Princess Diana.If Milosevic was murdered, who would ultimately be responsible? NATO. Why NATO? Because, though the ICTY (or 'Hague Tribunal') presents itself to the world as a UN body, NATO officials have themselves made clear, in public, that it really belongs to NATO. NATO appointed the prosecutors, and the judges who ruled out investigating any war crimes accusations against NATO. It follows that Slobodan Milosevic, who was a prisoner of the Hague Tribunal's Scheveningen prison when he died, was a prisoner of NATO. NATO had both motive and opportunity to kill him.In March 2002, Milosevic presented the NATO controlled Hague tribunal with FBI documents proving that both the United States government and NATO provided financial and military support for Al-Qaeda to aid the Kosovo Liberation Army in its war against Serbia. This didn't go down too well at the Pentagon and the White House, who at the time were trying to sell a war on terror and gearing up to justify invading Iraq.During Milosevic's trial for war crimes NATO alleged that the Serbs had committed a massacre of Albanian civilians in the Kosovo town of Racak. Evidence presented in the court showed that NATO's claim was a hoax. This is especially embarrassing because the allegation of a massacre at Racak was the excuse that NATO used to begin bombing the Serbs on 24 March 1999 (the carpet bombing were done by the United States Air Force -authorized by then president Bill and Hillary Clinton). Then NATO claimed that the Serbs had supposedly been murdering 100,000 Albanian civilians. However, NATO's own forensics reported that they could not find even one body of an Albanian civilian murdered by Milosevic's forces. The failure to find any bodies eventually led to NATO's absurd claim that the Serbs had supposedly covered up the genocide by moving the many thousands of bodies in freezer trucks deep into Serbia (while Bill Clinton was carpet bombing the place) without leaving a single trace of evidence. But the Hague tribunal showed these accusations to be entirely fraudulent as well.Milosevic made several speeches in which he discussed how a group of shadowy internationalists had caused the chaos in the Balkans because it was the next step on the road to a "new world order."During a February 2000 Serbian Congressional speech, Milosevic stated, "Small Serbia and people in it have demonstrated that resistance is possible. Applied at a broader level, it was organized primarily as a moral and political rebellion against tyranny, hegemony, monopolism, generating hatred, fear and new forms of violence and revenge against champions of freedom among nations and people, such a resistance would stop the escalation of modern time inquisition. Uranium bombs, computer manipulations, drug-addicted young assassins and bribed of blackmailed domestic thugs, promoted to the allies of the new world order, these are the instruments of inquisition which have surpassed, in their cruelty and cynicism, all previous forms of revengeful violence committed against the mankind in the past."Evidence linking Milosevic to genocides like Srebrenica, in which 7,000 Muslims died, was proven to be fraudulent. In fact, Srebrenica was a 'UN safe zone', yet just like Rwanda, UN peacekeepers deliberately withdrew and allowed the massacre to unfold, then blamed Milosevic. Milosevic's exposure of UN involvement in the Srebrenica massacre was another reason why tribunal transcripts were heavily edited and censored by NATO, and another contributing factor for NATO to murder him while he was in their custody.NATO's Hague Tribunal was clearly a kangaroo court whose sole purpose was to convince ordinary people all over the world that NATO's destruction of Yugoslavia was justified. Since NATO failed to show this in its own court (a total absence of evidence did make this difficult), there is indeed a powerful NATO motive to murder Milosevic – to prevent his acquittal. In this way, NATO can continue to claim that Milosevic was guilty, and nobody would begin to look into the mountain of evidence that showed that it was NATO leaders (particularly US president Bill Clinton) who committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Yugoslavia.So many people have been done in by cancer at a convenient time in history that it is now time to ask the question "who is assassinating people by giving their target cancer or inducing a massive heart attack"? Who ordered the hits and why?Mr. Charles Senseney, a CIA weapon developer at Fort Detrick, Maryland, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee in September 1975 where he described an umbrella poison dart gun he had made. He said it was always used in crowds with the umbrella open, firing through the webing so it would not attract attention. Since it was silent, no one in the crowd could hear it and the assassin merely would fold up the umbrella and saunter away with the crowd. Video footage of the assassination of John F Kennedy shows this umbrella gun being used in Dealey Plaza. Video evidence of the events of November 22, 1963 shows that the first shot fired on the fateful day had always seemed to have had a paralytic effect on Kennedy. His fists were clenched and his head, shoulders and arms seemed to stiffen. An autopsy revealed that there was a small entrance wound in his neck but no evidence of a bullet path through his neck and no bullet was ever recovered that matched that small size.Charles Senseney testified that his Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick had received assignments from the CIA to develop exotic weaponry. One of the weapons was a hand-held dart gun that could shoot a poison dart into a guard dog to put it out of action for several hours. The dart and the poison left no trace so that examination would not reveal that the dogs had been put out of action. The CIA ordered about 50 of these weapons and used them operationally. Senseney said that the darts could have been used to kill human beings and he could not rule out the possibility that this had been done by the CIA.A special type of poison developed for the CIA induces a heart attack and leaves no trace of any external influence unless an autopsy is conducted to check for this particular poison. The CIA revealed this poison in various accounts in the early 1970s. The CIA even revealed the weapon that fired those darts that induces a heart attack at a congressional hearing. The dart from this secret CIA weapon can penetrate clothing and leave nothing but a tiny red dot on the skin. On penetration of the deadly dart, the individual targeted for assassination may feel as if bitten by a mosquito, or they may not feel anything at all. The poisonous dart completely disintegrates upon entering the target. The lethal poison then rapidly enters the bloodstream causing a heart attack. Once the damage is done, the poison denatures quickly, so that an autopsy is very unlikely to detect that the heart attack resulted from anything other than natural causes. A former CIA agent disclosed that the darts were made of a frozen form of the liquid poison. She disclosed that the dart would melt within the target and would only leave a very tiny red dot at the entry point – the same type of small entrance wound that was found during the autopsy of John F Kennedy.For over 50 years assassinations have been carried out so skillfully as to leave the impression that the victims died from natural causes. Details of some of the techniques used to achieve this were brought to light in 1961 when professional KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinskiy defected to the West and revealed that he had successfully performed two such missions. In 1957 he killed Ukrainian emigré writer Lev Rebet in Munich with a poison vapor gun which left the victim dead of an apparent heart attack. In 1959, the same type of weapon was used on Ukrainian emigré leader Stepan Bandera, although Bandera's death was never fully accepted as having been from natural causes.Continued...
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=24826.0Journalists, bloggers are threats in terror drillhttp://rawstory.com/news/2007/Journalists_bloggers_are_threats_in_terror_0131.htmlAssociated Press Published: Thursday January 31, 2008It's the government's idea of a really bad day: Washington's Metro trains shut down. Seaport computers in New York go dark. Bloggers reveal locations of railcars with hazardous materials. Airport control towers are disrupted in Philadelphia and Chicago. Overseas, a mysterious liquid is found on London's subway.And that's just for starters.Those incidents were among dozens of detailed, mock disasters confronting officials rapid-fire in the U.S. government's biggest-ever "Cyber Storm" war game, according to hundreds of pages of heavily censored files obtained by The Associated Press. The Homeland Security Department ran the exercise to test the nation's hacker defenses, with help from the State Department, Pentagon, Justice Department, CIA, National Security Agency and others.The laundry list of fictional catastrophes which include hundreds of people on "No Fly" lists suddenly arriving at airport ticket counters is significant because it suggests what kind of real-world trouble keeps people in the White House awake at night.Imagined villains include hackers, bloggers and even reporters. After mock electronic attacks overwhelmed computers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, an unspecified "major news network" airing reports about the attackers refused to reveal its sources to the government. Other simulated reporters were duped into spreading "believable but misleading" information that worsened fallout by confusing the public and financial markets, according to the government's files. The $3 million, invitation-only war game simulated what the U.S. described as plausible attacks over five days in February 2006 against the technology industry, transportation lines and energy utilities by anti-globalization hackers. The government is organizing another multimillion-dollar war game, Cyber Storm 2, to take place in early March. "They point out where your expectations of your capabilities may be overstated," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the AP. "They may reveal to you things you haven't thought about. It's a good way of testing that you're going to do the job the way you think you were. It's the difference between doing drills and doing a scrimmage." The AP obtained the Cyber Storm internal records nearly two years after it requested them under the Freedom of Information Act. The government censored most of the 328 pages it turned over, marked "For Official Use Only," citing rules preventing the disclosure of sensitive information. "Definitely a challenging scenario," said Scott C. Algeier, who runs a cyber-defense group for leading technology companies, the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center. For the participants including government officials from the United States, England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and executives from leading technology and transportation companies the mock disasters came fast and furious: Hacker break-ins at an airline; stolen commercial software blueprints; problems with satellite navigation systems; trouble with police radios in Montana; school closures in Washington, Miami and New York; computer failures at border checkpoints.The incidents were divided among categories: computer attacks, physical attacks or psychological operations."We want to stress these players," said Jeffrey Wright, the former Cyber Storm director for the Homeland Security Department. "None of the players took 100 percent of the correct, right actions. If they had, we wouldn't have done our job as planners." How did they do? Reviews were mixed. Companies and governments worked successfully in some cases. But key players didn't understand the role of the premier U.S. organization responsible for fending off major cyber attacks, called the National Cyber Response Coordination Group, and it didn't have enough technical experts.Also, the sheer number of mock attacks complicated defensive efforts. The little-known Cyber Response group, headed by the departments of Justice and Homeland Security, represents the largest U.S. government departments including law enforcement and intelligence agencies and is the principal organization for responding to cyber attacks and recovering from them. The exercise had no impact on the real Internet. Officials said they were careful to simulate attacks only using isolated computers, working from basement offices at the Secret Service's headquarters in downtown Washington.However, the government's files hint at a tantalizing mystery: In the middle of the war game, someone quietly attacked the very computers used to conduct the exercise. Perplexed organizers traced the incident to overzealous players and sent everyone an urgent e-mail marked "IMPORTANT!" reminding them not to probe or attack the game computers."Any time you get a group of (information technology) experts together, there's always a desire, 'Let's show them what we can do,'" said George Foresman, a former senior Homeland Security official who oversaw Cyber Storm. "Whether its intent was embarrassment or a prank, we had to temper the enthusiasm of the players."This video is from The Associated Press, broadcast January 31, 2008.[/size]http://www.rawprint.com/media/2008/0802/ap_bloggers_cyberstorm_threat_080131a.flv
June 11, 2010http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/us/politics/12leak.html?hpNY TIMES: White House Takes a Hard Line Against Leaks to PressBy SCOTT SHANENational Security Agency headquarters.WASHINGTON — Hired in 2001 by the National Security Agency to help it catch up with the e-mail and cellphone revolution, Thomas A. Drake became convinced that the government's eavesdroppers were squandering hundreds of millions of dollars on failed programs while ignoring a promising alternative. He took his concerns everywhere inside the secret world: to his bosses, to the agency's inspector general, to the Defense Department's inspector general and to the Congressional intelligence committees. But he felt his message was not getting through. So he contacted a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. Today, because of that decision, Mr. Drake, 53, a veteran intelligence bureaucrat who collected early computers, faces years in prison on 10 felony charges involving the mishandling of classified information and obstruction of justice. The indictment of Mr. Drake was the latest evidence that the Obama administration is proving more aggressive than the Bush administration in seeking to punish unauthorized leaks. In 17 months in office, President Obama has already outdone every previous president in pursuing leak prosecutions. His administration has taken actions that might have provoked sharp political criticism for his predecessor, George W. Bush, who was often in public fights with the press. Mr. Drake was charged in April; in May, an F.B.I. translator was sentenced to 20 months in prison for providing classified documents to a blogger; this week, the Pentagon confirmed the arrest of a 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst suspected of passing a classified video of an American military helicopter shooting Baghdad civilians to the Web site Wikileaks.org. Meanwhile, the Justice Department has renewed a subpoena in a case involving an alleged leak of classified information on a bungled attempt to disrupt Iran's nuclear program that was described in "State of War," a 2006 book by James Risen. The author is a reporter for The New York Times. And several press disclosures since Mr. Obama took office have been referred to the Justice Department for investigation, officials said, though it is uncertain whether they will result in criminal cases. As secret programs proliferated after the 2001 terrorist attacks, Bush administration officials, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, were outspoken in denouncing press disclosures about the C.I.A.'s secret prisons and brutal interrogation techniques, and the security agency's eavesdropping inside the United States without warrants. In fact, Mr. Drake initially drew the attention of investigators because the government believed he might have been a source for the December 2005 article in The Times that revealed the wiretapping program. Describing for the first time the scale of the Bush administration's hunt for the sources of The Times article, former officials say 5 prosecutors and 25 F.B.I. agents were assigned to the case. The homes of three other security agency employees and a Congressional aide were searched before investigators raided Mr. Drake's suburban house in November 2007. By then, a series of articles by Siobhan Gorman in The Baltimore Sun had quoted N.S.A. insiders about the agency's billion-dollar struggles to remake its lagging technology, and panicky intelligence bosses spoke of a "culture of leaking." Though the inquiries began under President Bush, it has fallen to Mr. Obama and his attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., to decide whether to prosecute. They have shown no hesitation, even though Mr. Drake is not accused of disclosing the N.S.A.'s most contentious program, that of eavesdropping without warrants. The Drake case epitomizes the politically charged debate over secrecy and democracy in a capital where the watchdog press is an institution even older than the spy bureaucracy, and where every White House makes its own calculated disclosures of classified information to reporters. Steven Aftergood, head of the project on government secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, who has long tracked the uneasy commerce in secrets between government officials and the press, said Mr. Drake might have fallen afoul of a bipartisan sense in recent years that leaks have gotten out of hand and need to be deterred. By several accounts, Mr. Obama has been outraged by some leaks, too. "I think this administration, like every other administration, is driven to distraction by leaking," Mr. Aftergood said. "And Congress wants a few scalps, too. On a bipartisan basis, they want these prosecutions to proceed." Though he is charged under the Espionage Act, Mr. Drake appears to be a classic whistle-blower whose goal was to strengthen the N.S.A.'s ability to catch terrorists, not undermine it. His alleged revelations to Ms. Gorman focused not on the highly secret intelligence the security agency gathers but on what he viewed as its mistaken decisions on costly technology programs called Trailblazer, Turbulence and ThinThread. "The Baltimore Sun stories simply confirmed that the agency was ineptly managed in some respects," said Matthew M. Aid, an intelligence historian and author of "The Secret Sentry," a history of the N.S.A. Such revelations hardly damaged national security, Mr. Aid said. Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit group that defends whistle-blowers, said the Espionage Act, written in 1917 for the pursuit of spies, should not be used to punish those who expose government missteps. "What gets lost in the calculus is that there's a huge public interest in the disclosure of waste, fraud and abuse," Ms. Radack said. "Hiding it behind alleged classification is not acceptable." Yet the government asserts that Mr. Drake was brazen in mishandling and sharing the classified information he had sworn to protect. He is accused of taking secret N.S.A. reports home, setting up an encrypted e-mail account to send tips to Ms. Gorman, collecting more data for her from unwitting agency colleagues, and then obstructing justice by deleting and shredding documents. Gabriel Schoenfeld, author of "Necessary Secrets," a book proposing criminal penalties not just for leakers but for journalists who print classified material, said that whatever his intentions, Mr. Drake must be punished. "The system is plagued by leaks," said Mr. Schoenfeld, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative research organization. "When you catch someone, you should make an example of them." A spokesman for the Justice Department, Matthew A. Miller, said the Drake case was not intended to deter government employees from reporting problems. "Whistle-blowers are the key to many, many department investigations — we don't retaliate against them, we encourage them," Mr. Miller said. "This indictment was brought on the merits, and nothing else." Though Mr. Obama began his presidency with a pledge of transparency, his aides have warned of a crackdown on leakers. In a November speech, the top lawyer for the intelligence agencies, Robert S. Litt, decried "leaks of classified information that have caused specific and identifiable losses of intelligence capabilities." He promised action "in the coming months." Prosecutions like those of Mr. Drake; the F.B.I. translator, Shamai Leibowitz; and potentially Specialist Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst, who has not yet been charged, have only a handful of precedents in American history. Among them are the cases of Daniel Ellsberg, a Defense Department consultant who gave the Pentagon Papers to The Times in 1971, and Samuel L. Morison, a Navy analyst who passed satellite photographs to Jane's Defense Weekly in 1984. Under President Bush, no one was convicted for disclosing secrets directly to the press. But Lawrence A. Franklin, a Defense Department official, served 10 months of home detention for sharing classified information with officials of a pro-Israel lobbying group, and I. Lewis Libby Jr., a top aide to Mr. Cheney, was convicted of perjury for lying about his statements to journalists about an undercover C.I.A. officer, Valerie Plame Wilson. The F.B.I. has opened about a dozen investigations a year in recent years of unauthorized disclosures of classified information, according to a bureau accounting to Congress in 2007. But most such inquiries are swiftly dropped, usually because hundreds of government employees had access to the leaked information and identifying the source seems impossible. Often even a determined hunt fails to find the source, and agencies sometimes oppose prosecution for fear that even more secrets will be disclosed at a trial. By Justice Department rules, investigators may seek to question a journalist about his sources only after exhausting other options and with the approval of the attorney general. Subpoenas have been issued for reporters roughly once a year over the last two decades, according to Justice Department statistics, but such actions are invariably fought by news organizations and spark political debate over the First Amendment. The reporter in the Drake case, Ms. Gorman, who now works at The Wall Street Journal, was never contacted by the Justice Department, according to two people briefed on the investigation. With Mr. Drake's own statements to the F.B.I. in five initial months of cooperation, along with his confiscated computers and documents, investigators believed they could prove their case without her. Prosecutors further simplified their task by choosing to charge Mr. Drake not with transferring classified material to Ms. Gorman but with a different part of the espionage statute: illegal "retention" of classified information. An Air Force veteran who drove an electric car, Mr. Drake has long worked on the boundary between technology and management. After years as an N.S.A. contractor, he was hired as an employee and turned up for his first day of work on Sept. 11, 2001. His title at the time hints at the baffling layers of N.S.A. bureaucracy, with more than 30,000 employees at the Fort Meade, Md., headquarters alone: "Senior Change Leader/Chief, Change Leadership & Communications Office, Signals Intelligence Directorate." Chris Frappier, a close friend since high school in Vermont, described Mr. Drake then as fascinated by technology and international affairs, socially awkward, with "an incredible sense of duty and honor." When he read the indictment, said Mr. Frappier, now a legal investigator in Vermont, he recognized his old friend. "It's just so Tom," Mr. Frappier said. "He saw something he thought was wrong, and he thought it had to be stopped." According to two former intelligence officials, Mr. Drake became a champion of ThinThread, a pilot technology program designed to filter the flood of telephone, e-mail and Web traffic that the N.S.A. collects. He believed it offered effective privacy protections for Americans, too. But agency leaders rejected ThinThread and chose instead a rival program called Trailblazer, which was later judged an expensive failure and abandoned. Mr. Drake and some allies kept pressing the case for ThinThread but were rebuffed, according to former agency officials. "It was a pretty sharp battle within the agency," said a former senior intelligence official. "The ThinThread guys were a very vocal minority." One former N.S.A. consultant recalled "alarmist memos and e-mails" from Mr. Drake, including one that declared of the agency: "The place is almost completely corrupted." Mr. Drake, whom friends describe as a dogged, sometimes obsessive man, took his complaints about ThinThread and other matters to a series of internal watchdogs. He developed a close relationship with intelligence committee staff members, including Diane S. Roark, who tracked the security agency for the House Intelligence Committee. She discussed with Mr. Drake the possibility of contacting Ms. Gorman, according to people who know Ms. Roark. The subsequent investigation, which included a search of Ms. Roark's house, devastated Mr. Drake, his wife — herself an N.S.A. contractor — and their teenage son. "For Tom Drake, a man who loves his country and has devoted most of his life to serving it, this is particularly painful," said his lawyer, James Wyda, the federal public defender for Maryland. "We feel that the government is wrong on both the facts alleged and the principles at stake in such a prosecution." Forced in 2008 out of his job at the National Defense University, where the security agency had assigned him, Mr. Drake took a teaching job at Strayer University. He lost that job after the indictment and now works at an Apple computer store. He spends his evenings, friends say, preparing his defense and pondering the problems of N.S.A., which still preoccupy him.
Peter King is the latest terrorist in the congress demanding that the United States nuke every Wikileaks server and burn the eyes out of every American who reads the publicly owned information.Way to go King...YOU ARE EXPOSED AS A BONA FIDE TERRORISTDerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"I am Peter King, and I hate America, Derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"GOP Rep. asks Clinton to declare WikiLeaks a 'foreign terrorist organization'http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/gop-rep-wikileaks-deemed-foreign-terrorist-organization/[NOTE: Peter King is saying that now confirmed terrorist Hilary Clinton has the power to declare anyone a 'foreign terrorist organization'? Perhaps Peter needs to review the CONSTITUTION which he took an oath to protect against enemies foreign and domestic!]By Stephen C. WebsterSunday, November 28th, 2010 -- 7:20 pmA Republican Congressman from New York has invented a new definition for the word "terrorism" that doesn't require guns, bombs, vast underground networks of sleeper cells, a criminal conspiracy or even violence. All that's needed to be a terrorist, according to Rep. Peter King, is a website and some inconvenient information. That's why King sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday, demanding that whistleblower website WikiLeaks be deemed a "foreign terrorist organization" and it's founder declared a terror ringleader. "To me they are a clear and present enemy to the United States of America," he told a CBS radio reporter on Sunday. King said the website's release of sensitive -- but not "top secret" -- US diplomatic cables was "worse than a military attack." Declaring the site a "terrorist" group, King suggested, would allow the US "to seize their funds and go after anyone who provides them with any help or contributions or assistance whatsoever." He also called for site founder Julian Assange to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act. That may prove difficult, however, given that WikiLeaks did not steal any of the documents it released to the media -- they was given to them by a whistleblower, allegedly a young soldier named Bradley Manning. That sequence of events, of a whistleblower contacting a high profile news venue with explosive information that needs to be made public, happens in newsrooms all across the country every week. Though inconvenient for officials, the revelation of information contained in any of the WikiLeaks files, much like the Pentagon Papers amid the Vietnam war, is crucial to maintaining an enlightened public -- a point the US Supreme Court made abundantly clear in New York Times Co. v. United States in 1971. "In seeking injunctions against these newspapers and in its presentation to the Court, the Executive Branch seems to have forgotten the essential purpose and history of the First Amendment," Justices Hugo Black and William Douglas wrote, taking the side of the Times, which had recently published what was then considered the largest cache of secret military information in US history. "In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy," they continued. "The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government." After the release of the Pentagon Papers, Justices Black and Douglas opined that "newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do." According to Daniel Ellsberg, the man responsible for leaking the Pentagon Papers, WikiLeaks has done just the same. Concurring with the court's majority, Justice Potter Stewart added: "In the absence of the governmental checks and balances present in other areas of our national life, the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defense and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry - in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government. For this reason, it is perhaps here that a press that is alert, aware, and free most vitally serves the basic purpose of the First Amendment. For without an informed and free press there cannot be an enlightened people." "[The WikiLeaks] documents serve an important public interest, illuminating the goals, successes, compromises and frustrations of American diplomacy in a way that other accounts cannot match," the Times added. "The Attorney General and I don't always agree on different issues, but I believe on this one, he and I strongly agree that there should be a criminal prosecution [of WikiLeaks]," Rep. King told CBS radio. Attorney General Holder has not made any announcement regarding a criminal prosecution of the site or it's founder. The White House strongly condemned the site's actions on Sunday, calling the publication of State Dept. documents a continuation of a violation of law. King's call for prosecution was echoed Sunday by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-GA), Clair McCaskill (D-MO) and former State Department official Liz Cheney. Julian Assange is currently wanted for questioning by Swedish authorities who are investigating a claim of rape and molestation. Assange has maintained that the charges are baseless and part of a campaign to discredit him.
WTF? Everyone knows that any whistleblower suddenly dying of a "heart attack" is likely the victim of a PRESCISION STRIKE assassination operation.The opening scene of the movie "THE INTERNATIONAL" shows this gun being used to murder a whistleblower and make it look like a heart attack.In the movie Michael Clayton, another whistleblower is murdered by a "HEART ATTACK" injection like the ones used by THE ICEMAN (documentary link above)
Was the assassination of Breitbart a false flag to allow neocons to pressure Obama into approving a false flag or approve the mas murdering of millions of Iranians?Will the assassination of Breitbart be used this way even if it was not a false flag.Look how much Bilderberg will allow only the neocons to talk about the assassination of Breitbart, once they stop you will know that a deal has been cut.Every journalist in the world should be exposing this assassination, the fake left is playing right into the 'bomb iran' plans by trying to cover up the murder.Neocons also probably agreed to backstap Sheriff Arpaio as well.The New World Order eats its own, if an IBM computer calculates that the benefit of killing one of their own will assist in protecting public myths then chances are that person will be added to the WH kill list.
Andrew was #3 on the white house hit list... Alex Jones is #24....Oldyoti"The reason for the Second Amendment may not be fully understood until such time as it is needed."~Thomas Jefferson
JT,Where can a find that list?
They're already eradicating whistle blowers. http://areyoutargeted.com/2010/04/28/what-is-it-about-whistle-blowing-that-drives-people-crazy/What they really want is to identify the whistle blowers before they blow the whistle.Of course, there is no possible blowback to a whistleblower-suppression policy. None whatsoever. http://areyoutargeted.com/2010/04/18/is-the-coverup-bringing-system-down/
THIS COULD ERADICATE WHISTLE BLOWERSDarpa Is Looking to SMITE Internet Interlopershttp://gizmodo.com/5544002/darpa-is-looking-to-smite-internet-interlopersDarpa is going at securing cyberspace again, and this time they've got an open call to everyone to help them devise a program that will flag threats through irregular activity.The new program called "Suspected Malicious Insider Threat Elimination"painstakingly abbreviated to SMITEwas started to point out threats in the massive amounts of data on the internet. The new idea behind the program is to track the the activity of individuals or groups, rather than look for hints of threats in the entire sea of information. Theoretically it will be easier to notice malicious intentions by looking for small differences in the constantly updated activities of single users rather than the whole mess of us.All this cyber-sleuthing sounds questionable, as some future activity could be mistakenly flagged as hostile. To prevent this, Darpa is calling for submissions to build a massive database that will prevent any accidental interpretations. The call for participants is going on now and there's workshop set later this June. Start covering your tracks now.*******************************************************************************DARPA plans to SMITE insider enemieshttp://gcn.com/articles/2010/05/20/darpa-smite-rfi.aspxRFI seeks technology to address attacks from within * By Kathleen Hickey * May 20, 2010The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking for technology to address insider threats. DARPA will use the technology, called Suspected Malicious Insider Threat Elimination (SMITE), to predict insider attacks, determine when one is underway and to detect one that has already taken place, according to the request for information issued May 10.DARPA defines an insider threat as "malevolent (or possibly inadvertent) actions by an already trusted person with access to sensitive information and information systems and sources, according to the RFI.The agency plans to use forensics to find clues, gather and evaluate evidence and assess inferred actions and predict future behavior of the individual.In both the real and virtual world, it is very difficult to do anything without leaving some evidence behind. Attempts to conceal or remove evidence generally create new evidence that, if detected, could be a strong indication of the perpetrators intent, the RFI stated.The technology, which has not yet been specified, will be used to find individuals operating on U.S. networks. Specific topics of interest outlined in the RFI include: * Techniques to derive information about the relationship between deductions, the likely intent of inferred actions, and suggestions about what evidence might mean. * Methods to dynamically forecast context-dependent behaviors both malicious and non-malicious. * Online and offline algorithms for feature extraction and detection in enormous graphs (as in billions of nodes). * Hybrid engines where deduction and feature detection mutually inform one another.Particular technologies of interest include traditional insider threat detection, deception detection, pattern recognition, automated reasoning, analysis and algorithms for massive graphs and computational psychology and sociology.*******************************************************************************Request for Information (RFI)DARPA-SN-10-46Suspected Malicious Insider Threat Elimination (SMITE)http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/solicit/baa/RFI-SN-10-46_PIP.pdf*******************************************************************************Danger Room Whats Next in National SecurityDarpa Wants Code to Spot Anomalous Behavior on the Jobhttp://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/05/darpa-wants-code-to-spot-anomalous-behavior-on-the-job/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29Can software catch a cyberspys tricky intentions, before hes started to help the other side? The way-out researchers at Darpa think so. Theyre planning a new program, Suspected Malicious Insider Threat Elimination or SMITE, thats supposed to dynamically forecast when a mole is about to strike. Also, the code is meant to flag inadvertent disclosures by an already trusted person with access to sensitive information.Looking for clues that suggest a turncoat or accidental leaker is about to spill (.pdf) could potentially be easier than recognizing explicit attacks, Darpa notes in a request for information. But even that simpler search wont be easy. Many attacks are combinations of directly observable and inferred events. Which is why SMITEs program managers are interested in techniques to figure out the likely intent of inferred actions, and suggestions about what [that] evidence might mean. That goes for behaviors both malicious and non-malicious.Step one in starting that process: Build a ginormous database to store all kinds of information on would-be threats. The next step is to determine whether an individual or group of individuals is exhibiting anomalous behavior that is also malicious. Thats a toughie something anomalous in one context might be perfectly normal in another. One possible solution, the SMITE paper adds, could be detecting deceptive activities, which are a sign of cyberspying. Or cheating on your taxes. Or carrying on an office affair. Or playing World of Warcraft on the job. Depending on the situation.Over at The Register, Lew Page quips: It will no doubt be a comfort for anyone in a position of trust within the U.S. information infrastructure to know that mighty military algorithms and hybrid engines will soon sniff your every move so as to forecast any context-dependent malice on your part and then in some unspecified way (remember what the E in SMITE stands for) eliminate you as a threat.More likely, the program is just a way to do some basic research into algorithms ability to understand human intent. But since every Darpa program has to have some sort of military application no matter how far-fetched the agency has cooked up this cyberspy-fighting scenario.Anyway, our spies tell us that Darpa is planning a SMITE workshop for mid-June in northern Virginia.
Notice the above website no longer exists--and there is not even an archive of it, which is not the norm.
Here are the 40 names that are targeted in the SPLC report (and guess who is listed at the very top? Yours truly):1. Chuck Baldwin, Pastor, Radio Broadcaster, Syndicated Columnist, 2008 Constitution Party Presidential nominee.2. Joe Banister, former IRS special agent, tax protester.3. Martin Red Beckman, tax protester4. Catherine Bleish, head of the Liberty Restoration Project.5. Chris Broughton, Second Amendment advocate, member of We The People group.6. Bob Campbell, head of American Grand Jury.7. Robert Crooks, Army veteran, retired commercial fisherman, anti-illegal immigration proponent.8. Joseph Farah, CEO of World Net Daily9. Gary Franchi, producer of Camp FEMA: American Lockdown, national director of RestoreTheRepublic.com.10. Al Garza, head of the Patriots Coalition, an anti-illegal immigration group.11. Ted Gunderson, retired FBI agent.12. John Hassey, The public face of Alabamas militia movement in the late 1990s, says SPLC.13. Alex Jones, Radio Talk Show host.14. Devvy Kidd, prolific columnist, blogger, and public speaker.15. Larry Kilgore, telecommunications consultant, former US Senate candidate from Texas, pro-secession advocate.16. Cliff Kincaid, syndicated columnist and author, editor of AIM Report (Accuracy in Medias publication), founder and president of Americas Survival, Inc., a UN watchdog group.17. Mark Koernke, associated with the now-defunct Michigan Militia.18. Richard Mack, former Graham County, Arizona, Sheriff, author, and public speaker.19. Jack McLamb, former Phoenix, Arizona, police officer, author, and public speaker.20. John McManus, former member of the US Marine Corps, president of the John Birch Society.21. Daniel New, father of Michael New (the Army medic who refused to wear a UN uniform), author, public speaker.22. Norm Olson, founder of the now-defunct Michigan Militia.23. Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America.24. Stewart Rhodes, Army veteran and Yale Law School graduate, founder of Oath Keepers.25. Jon Roland, computer specialist, founder of the Constitution Society.26. Luke Rudkowski, founder We Are Change.27. Robert Bob Schultz, founder of We The People.28. Joel Skousen, editor, World Affairs Brief.29. Jim Stachowiak, Radio Talk Show host, Longtime militia organizer, claims SPLC.30. John Stadtmiller, founder, Republic Broadcasting Network.31. Orly Taitz, California attorney, a leader in the push to make President Obama disclose his US birth certificate.32. Amanda Teegarden, executive director of Oklahomans for Sovereignty and Free Enterprise.33. Mike Vanderboegh, anti-Obama health care activist.34. Paul Venable, former candidate for the Idaho House of Representatives.35. Edwin Vieira, Jr., attorney, author, proponent of constitutional State militias, lecturer.36. Michele Bachmann, US Representative from Minnesota.37. Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel TV host.38. Paul Broun, medical doctor, US Representative from Georgia.39. Andrew Napolitano, attorney, former State judge in New Jersey, Fox News Channel legal analyist, lecturer.40. Ron Paul, former member of the US Air Force, medical doctor, US Representative from Texas, 2008 Republican candidate for President.
Rick Santorum: "What a huge loss, in my opinion, to our country and certainly to the conservative movement." Newt Gingrich: "Andrew Breitbart was the most innovative pioneer in conservative activist social media in America. He had great courage and creativity."And Mitt Romney called Breitbart a "brilliant entrepreneur, fearless conservative, loving husband and father."
The news quickly sent conservative bloggers--still shocked by Breitbart's sudden death--into a frenzy."In a stunning coincidence," Paul Joseph Watson wrote on InfoWars.com, "it appears Andrew Breitbart suffered his untimely death just hours before he was set to release damning video footage that could have sunk Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign."
But it wasn't just Sinclair News that housed conspiracy theorists. Conservative site InfoWars.com had plenty of speculations too."I'm going to reiterate what I said before," a commenter wrote on InfoWars.com. "In my opinion THIS GUY GOT ELIMINATED. Plain and simple." And another wrote: "Anybody who gets too close to the truth will be killed."
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As much as I hate to admit it, the end of summer is rapidly approaching. For some, it may already feel like summer is over. School is back in session, the days are getting shorter, and the nights are cool and crisp.
I can't say I'm ready for summer to be over. I want to savor it for just a little bit longer. Thankfully, that's the beauty of canning. I can literally bottle up the bounty of summer and store it in a jar, and enjoy the spoils of summer throughout the year.
That being said, I thought I would share some of my favorite summer canning recipes with you all. Fall is just around the corner, and now is the perfect time to put up your favorite summer fruits and vegetables. I've included a number of links to my own recipes, as well as a collection of recipes from friends and bloggers. Be sure to scroll all the way down, as I've also included a recipe for Quick Pickled Grapes from my friend Mary! (Bonus: if you're in the Portland area, there's also a PDX Food Swap on September 21st. You can trade your canned goods for other amazing homemade creations!)
A few of my personal favorite canning + preserving recipes:
Blueberry Lavender Jam with Vanilla Bean
24 Hour (Refrigerator) Dill Pickles
Slow Cooker Blueberry Plum Butter
A few delightful canning recipes from friends and other bloggers:
Refrigerator Pickled Okra from Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking
Marionberry Jam from PDX Food Love
Summer's End Stonefruits (This post contains a whole bunch of amazing recipes for preserving stone fruits from the lovely Kate Payne!)
Peach Sriracha Butter from Cake Walk
Salted Cantaloupe Jam from Back to Her Roots
Tomato Rhubarb Ketchup from Savory Simple
Vietnamese Pickled Vegetables from Use Real Butter
Honey Sweetened Apricot Thyme Jam from Marisa of Food in Jars (for Simple Bites)
And last, but certainly not least, we have a guest recipe from Mary Crowe of MaryEats.com. This recipe is quick, easy, and totally delicious. And, it's a great way to make your grapes last longer! Go forth and pickle some grapes today!
A note about pickling spice: I love World Spice Merchant's pickling blend. If you don't have a blend, make your own with black pepper, a cinnamon stick, mace, yellow mustard seed, bay leaves, a dried small chile, allspice berries, a clove or two.
Recipe by Mary Crowe of MaryEats.com
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup sherry vinegar
- 1 tablespoon pickling spice
- 5 cups of grapes, washed and stemmed
- Wash all jars and lids in hot soapy water then rinse. Place clean jars on a cooling rack set inside a baking sheet. Evenly distribute the grapes between the jars, you want to leave 1-inch of head room.
- In a saucepan, combine the water, sugar, vinegar and spices. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. Let brine steep for 10 minutes. Strain the liquid into a large glass measuring cup and discard the spices.
- Evenly distribute the liquid among the jars leaving a bit of room at the top. Cap jars and store in the fridge.
- Wait at least 24 hours before eating the grapes.
- If you aren't making to share with friends, you can use a large container instead of individual jars. Place all the grapes in one large container and pour liquid over before storing in the fridge.

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Information You Need To Be Safer
No racer thinks a wreck is in his or her future, but it happens far too often. So many drivers get odd injuries that could have been prevented. Taking a thoughtful and careful look around the cockpit allows any racer to improve his or her safety. Follow along and learn about how a better understanding of your environment can help you survive a crash.
The seat should be mounted to the rollcage or a structural member of the frame. It is always better to use manufacturer-supplied mounting rails, because they are specially built for your seat. They properly mount the bottom front and bottom rear of the seat. Seat rails should be bolted to the seat with Grade 8 3/8-inch bolts, heavy-duty large flat washers, and lock nuts. The bolts must be spaced as far apart as possible to properly distribute the load.
The seat should be tied into the horizontal tubing that runs behind the seat. Instead of bolting through the tubing, it is better for strength purposes to weld on a bracket and then bolt through that. The bolts should be vertical so that they are in shear.
A bracket that supports the entire width of the seat is best. Spreading the load provides a more secure mounting. A minimum of four Grade 8 5/16-inch bolts, heavy-duty flat washers, and lock nuts spaced as wide as the width of the seat should be used. Again, a manufacturer-supplied bracket should be used whenever possible to connect the seat, the rear bar, and the mounting flange.
In an accident, one of the first areas of the car that your body hits is the door bar. This large area is very close to the seat and well within reach of your swinging arms. Roll bar padding on these bars help, but you can still slide between the bars. Most teams use full-sheet door pads. This is a piece of fire-retardant material that has an impact-dissipating foam laminated to the back of it.
A driver's safety in the cockpit has a lot to do with the quality, mounting, and care of the seatbelts. We have discussed these topics in previous articles, but they can never be mentioned enough. There are a few concepts to think about when buying, installing, and using seatbelts.
1. Better belt materials: In the early days of racing, seatbelts were made from the same thing that military belts were made from, which was cotton webbing. As technology advanced, it was found that nylon was a better choice for longer life and higher strength. In the last 5-10 years, polyester and combinations of materials have made their way into the market of competition seatbelts.
These materials have been preferred because of the small amount of stretch compared to the average nylon stretch numbers, but this should not rule out all nylon belts. There are quality nylon belts on the market, and the price difference between nylon and polyester does not always gain the stretch advantage for the price a racer is paying.
2. Keeping the belts as short as possible: As we just mentioned, all belt webbing stretches. The amount the belt stretches is a function of the tension load placed on it and the length of the belt this tension is applied to. The more the belt stretches, the farther the driver moves in the seat and the greater the likelihood of injury. Shorter belts lessen the stretch.
3. No sternum straps: When they were first developed, sternum straps were used to keep the shoulder belts closer to the middle of the chest and keep them from sliding off the shoulders. What has been found since then is that these straps are neck injuries waiting to happen.
As the driver's torso moves forward in a frontal impact, the shoulders slide on the belts and the sternum strap moves toward the neck. There is no fix for this. Proper mounting and the use of short belt lengths will accomplish the goal of keeping the belts on the driver's chest.
4. Proper mounting angles and hardware: The SFI Foundation has an article on its Web site (www.sfifoundation.com) detailing proper belt mounting methods, angles, and procedures. There are other articles and diagrams on the Web, but SFI's site has such a wealth of safety knowledge that it is worth the look.
5. Certifications and age: Any quality belt system has a certification tag. This is the manufacturer stating that the belt meets the minimum standards set forth by a certifying foundation under a certain specification. Most belts in America, and quality belts from overseas, have an SFI tag. The belt should also have a tag that states its date of manufacture. It is commonly held that a set of belts should not be used more than two years after its date of manufacture.
The legs make up the largest mass of the body that is unrestrained. During an accident, the driver's legs are free to hit anything from the transmission tunnel and shifter handle on the right side of the cockpit to the door bars on the left. To control the driver's leg motions, it is important to utilize leg braces and a steering column mounted knee knocker.
The leg braces are run from the front of the seat on the sides of the legs to the front firewall, or as far forward as reasonable. The braces should be made from a substantial aluminum. The edges of the braces should be bent over, not only for strength, but also to eliminate another opportunity for the driver to be cut.
If there is room, a knee knocker should be installed under the steering column or toward the front of the seat. Both options work well, but still consider that this should not be mounted absolutely rigid. Unlike the leg braces, the knee knocker is designed to keep the knees apart and slow down the motion of the legs. If the knee knocker is mounted absolutely rigid, the leg can wrap around it and create injuries.
Below the dashboard, the only things to stop the driver's feet are the pedals. The pedals need to be mounted solidly to the chassis, and the pedal faces themselves need to be thick enough so as not to slice into the driver's foot or leg if the leg were swung that way in the event of an accident. A thin pedal face is lighter, but it can act like a knife blade when the side of a driver's shoe makes high-speed contact.
Head nets have become a visual staple in many series of motorsports. They first appeared as an additional way to control the motion of the head and arms inside Sprint Cars. They were then utilized in the stock car realm for protection of the driver's head. They were used for the right side excursion of the head when the passenger side of the car impacted the wall.
The common window net provides little protection for the head contacting the track wall in a left-side impact. The addition of the left-side head net provides an extra barrier. However, with the advent of seat-mounted head surrounds, the need for the head net is reduced.
Some seat builders question the use of these head nets when adequate head surrounds are utilized. There is no question of their usefulness when there is no head surround or when a short head surround is used. Short head surrounds are put in some cars because of space limitations in the cockpit. They allow for ease of driver exit.
One industry expert theorized that the correct use of these head nets in conjunction with a head surround could help limit the deflection of the head surround in an accident. To our knowledge, no test results have been published in this regard.
The most complete research related to head nets was done a few years ago by Tom Gideon of GM Racing and published in an SAE paper (#2004-01-3513) titled "Race Car Nets for the Control of Neck Forces in Side Impacts." This paper looks at right-side head nets and their placement and usage in controlling head-and-neck loading during a frontal right-side impact.
Gideon begins by discussing the situations that require the use of these nets. In short, whether a driver wears a HANS Device, a Hutchens Device, or some other head-and-neck system, in the event of a side impact, all of these devices have, at best, only limited control over sideways head movement. In these types of accidents, if a seat-mounted head support system is not in place, only the head nets provide protection for the head.
Gideon ran 16 sled tests at a 50g pulse. Various seats, net designs, and impact angles of 45, 60, and 90 degrees were tested. It is important to note that none of the tests utilized a seat-mounted head support system. Some very interesting conclusions can be drawn from the results.
1. As compared to the control test done without a net, the right-side nets were shown to reduce neck force and head acceleration at all crash angles tested.
2. Gideon found that net geometry and placement in relation to the seat and driver is important. The lower strand should be oriented to support the load of the shoulder. The upper strand should pass along the center of the helmet when viewed from the side. This is the preferred placement because Gideon found that if the upper strand of the net is above the center of gravity (CG) of the helmet, neck compression forces increase. If the upper strand is below the CG of the helmet, neck tension increases.
3. Nets should be designed with consideration of the car, seat and driver.
4. In a non-reinforced seat with no head surround system, it is better to have a net.
5. Right-side nets were tested, but there is no reason to think that left-side nets wouldn't function with similar positive results in left-side impacts.
6. The next level involves testing how the nets can be used in conjunction with a head surround to make up for the limitations of specific cockpits.
The days of using a stripped down passenger car to race professionally have been over for a while. Each Nextel Cup race car is now a purpose-built vehicle that has systems and infrastructure built in to enhance safety. This is not true of the common stock class series in which the race team must carefully provide a design that is safe. When designing the cockpit of your race vehicle, it is so important to look at the mounting of each accessory that goes into the car in regard to what may happen to that piece if you are involved in a wreck.
One of the main areas of concern is the mounting of the tachometer. This is an accessory that is often attached using hose clamps. Anything added beyond the normal parts of the interior and rollcage should be bolted to a rollbar with bolts that sustain it in case of a wreck. Other cockpit accessories that are commonly mounted incorrectly include the coil, the on-board computer, the radio, the drink bottle, and the fire extinguisher. Once the basics of cockpit safety are reviewed, it is time to look at more advanced levels of safety.
The most basic racing seatbelt system is the five-point system with two shoulder belts, two lap belts, and a submarine belt. To gain additional body control, the five-point system can be changed by replacing the single sub belt with two individual belts to control the motions of each leg. This system is called the six-point harness.
The six-point harness system is a vast improvement in body control compared to the five-point, but there is still another way to increase a driver's body control. In the typical six-point system, the leg belts snake through a loop in the lap belt and hook into the shoulder belts. This belt arrangement puts an odd angle on the direction of force for the tightening of the shoulder belts.
One way to keep the benefits of the leg control of the six points and keep the belts in an optimum alignment is to add the single sub belt so that the shoulder belts pull against it. This belt system is offered by many manufacturers.
Seat foam molds are used to fill the void between the driver and all parts of the seat. This spreads the impact loads over a larger area of the driver's body to reduce the unit loading. There are two types of foam molds.
The most popular mold has foam that expands inside a plastic bag while the driver is in the seat. The foam expands into the void areas, surrounds the driver, and then hardens. It is normally covered with a protective fabric.
The second type of foam mold is the polystyrene bead mold, which is created by fitting a bag of polystyrene beads into the seat, and having the driver sit in it. All the excess air is sucked from the bag, and a resin is inserted to bind the beads together. When the resin hardens, the driver is removed and the polystyrene beads are fixed in place. This type is most popular in Indy racing. Both methods allow the impact loads to be spread over a larger area of the driver's body.
On the subject of seat foam molds, it is important to understand that foam molds are not substitutes for high-quality seats or correct seat design. Some have suggested that the combination of non-rib seats and foam molds may provide adequate protection for the ribs, lower back, and spine support. However, on-track result do not support this suggestion. There is no substitute for a quality seat, and a seat foam mold is only an addition to a safety system and not a band-aid for lesser designed safety products.
The following statement is from noted racing physician Dr. Terry Trammell: "Safety is not a driver's right; it is a driver's responsibility." It is important to understand that just like your race engine, your safety equipment is a system in itself. Any addition to your safety program must not only consist of high-quality products, but also must fit well into your overall safety system.
By Bob Bolles
We spoke with Randy LaJoie, who manufactures racing seats and systems for stock cars. He agrees with the information presented in this article and adds that it is very important for the seat components to be rigid in order to properly protect the driver in all crash situations. We thought, like many others, that some flexing of the seat and head supports might absorb some of the energy in a crash. But we didn't consider the other consequences, such as secondary impacts and their effects on the driver if the seat components are bent out of place. According to LaJoie, "No driver has ever been hurt by the seat not moving."
If a seat bends upon impact, then it no longer fits the driver snugly. From that moment on, the driver is sitting in a seat that does not securely fit his or her torso, and that translates into a lot of movement and possible injury in a secondary impact.
If the head support bends away in an impact, then the head has farther to go to reach the support in a second or third impact. Contact with the rollcage or track wall is now possible, not to mention possible neck fractures, whereas a rigid support will keep on locating the head where it should be in relation to the body. To prevent serious injury, all of the body (head, chest, and hips) must stay in line upon impact. Modern race seats make that happen. We thought it necessary to clarify this point.


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Porsche Beachwood
25855 Chagrin Blvd.
Beachwood, OH 44122
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- set of one-piece alloy wheels w/5-spoke design (w/5-hole wheel connection)
- GT-silver metallic paint finish w/high-gloss polished surrounding
- wheel centers w/colored Porsche crest and anti-theft protection
- Wheel Centers w/Full-Color Porsche Crest
- one-touch functionality
- wind deflector
- electric sun blind
- roof painted in front and behind the glass module in high-gloss black
- (high-gloss)
- Porsche dynamic light system plus (PDLS Plus)
- paint finish in exterior color or in high-gloss black
- the following painted in exterior color: side skirts
- rear side air intakes and rear valance
- a total output of 821 watts
- 12 individually controlled loudspeakers
- 300-watt active subwoofer w/class D digital amplifier and special ribbon tweeters (air motion transformers
- three levels of adjustment
- three levels of adjustment
- decorative stitching in contrasting color
- model logo illuminated in white
- ashtray and cigarette lighter
Features & Specifications*
- Engine: Twin-Turbocharged 3.8L Boxer 6 Cylinder
- Transmission: 7-Speed Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK) -inc: dual-clutch gearbox, sport button, automatic mode or manual shift controls, auto start stop and coasting function
- Engine Auto Stop-Start Feature
- Transmission w/Oil Cooler
- Full-time all-wheel drive
- Automatic Rear Locking Differential
- 3.44 Axle Ratio
- Engine oil cooler
- 95-Amp/Hr 520CCA Maintenance-Free Battery w/Run Down Protection
- 120 amp alternator
- Gas-pressurized shock absorbers
- Automatic w/Driver Control Ride Control Sport Tuned Adaptive Suspension
- Front And Rear Active Anti-Roll Bars
- Electric Power-Assist Steering
- 17.9 Gal. Fuel Tank
- Dual Stainless Steel Exhaust w/Dark Chrome Tailpipe Finisher
- Strut Front Suspension w/Coil Springs
- Multi-link rear suspension w/coil springs
- 4-Wheel Disc Brakes w/4-Wheel ABS, Front And Rear Vented Discs, Brake Assist, Hill Hold Control, Ceramic Discs and Electric Parking Brake
- Electro-Mechanical Limited Slip Differential
- Vehicle Name : Porsche 911
- Body Style : Coupe
- Drivetrain : All Wheel Drive
- EPA Classification : Minicompact Cars
- Base Curb Weight (lbs) : 3528
- Engine Type : Twin Turbo Premium Unleaded H-6
- Displacement : 3.8 L/232
- Fuel System : Gasoline Direct Injection
- SAE Net Horsepower @ RPM : 580 @ 6750
- SAE Net Torque @ RPM : 516 @ 2100
- Trans Order Code : 250
- Trans Type : 7
- Trans Description Cont. : Auto-Shift Manual w/OD
- First Gear Ratio (:1) : 3.91
- Second Gear Ratio (:1) : 2.29
- Third Gear Ratio (:1) : 1.58
- Fourth Gear Ratio (:1) : 1.18
- Fifth Gear Ratio (:1) : 0.94
- Sixth Gear Ratio (:1) : 0.79
- Reverse Ratio (:1) : 3.54
- Final Drive Axle Ratio (:1) : 3.44
- Cold Cranking Amps @ 0° F (Primary) : 520
- Maximum Alternator Capacity (amps) : 120
- Suspension Type - Front : Strut
- Suspension Type - Rear : Multi-Link
- Suspension Type - Front (Cont.) : Strut
- Suspension Type - Rear (Cont.) : Multi-Link
- Steering Type : Rack-Pinion
- Turning Diameter - Curb to Curb (ft) : 34.8
- Brake Type : 4-wheel disc
- Brake ABS System : 4-Wheel
- Disc - Front (Yes or ) : Yes
- Disc - Rear (Yes or ) : Yes
- Front Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) : 16.1
- Rear Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) : 15.4
- Seventh Gear Ratio (:1) : 0.62
- Wheels: 9J x 20" Fr/12J x 20" Rr 911 Turbo S -inc: set of forged one-piece center-lock alloy wheels w/motorsport-derived spoke design and black finish w/colored Porsche crest
- Tires: 245/35ZR20 Fr & 305/30ZR20 Rr -inc: performance summer
- Wheels w/Locks
- Spare Tire Mobility Kit
- Metallic paint
- Black Side Windows Trim And Black Rear Window Trim
- Fixed Rear Window w/Defroster
- Light tinted glass
- Rain Detecting Variable Intermittent Wipers w/Heated Jets
- Galvanized Steel/Aluminum Panels
- Power Spoiler
- Rear fog lamps
- Perimeter/Approach Lights
- LED brakelights
- Fully Automatic Projector Beam Led Low/High Beam Daytime Running Auto-Leveling Directionally Adaptive Auto High-Beam Headlamps w/Washer and Delay-Off
- Front Tire Size : P245/35YR20
- Rear Tire Size : P305/30YR20
- Front Wheel Size (in) : 20 x 9
- Rear Wheel Size (in) : 20 x 12
- Front Wheel Material : Forged Aluminum
- Rear Wheel Material : Forged Aluminum
- Wheelbase (in) : 96.5
- Length, Overall (in) : 177.4
- Width, Max w/o mirrors (in) : 74
- Height, Overall (in) : 51.1
- Track Width, Front (in) : 60.7
- Track Width, Rear (in) : 62.6
- Radio: Porsche Communication Management (PCM) -inc: Connect Plus module featuring online navigation, mobile phone preparation, universal audio interface (AUX-IN, USB, iPod), Apple CarPlay and wireless internet access, SiriusXM satellite radio (w/3-month trial), HD Radio receiver, Porsche Car Connect (car finder, remote vehicle status, remote services and Porsche Vehicle Tracking System (PVTS)), BOSE surround sound system featuring 12 speakers, 555 watt output, CD/DVD drive, 11 GB internal jukebox storage, 2 USB slots, 2 SD card slots and Bluetooth hands-free mobile phone connection using Hands Free Profile (HFP)
- Radio w/Seek-Scan, In-Dash Mounted Single CD, MP3 Player, Clock, Speed Compensated Volume Control, Aux Audio Input Jack, Radio Data System, DVD-Audio, External Memory Control and 11 Gb Internal Memory
- Window grid diversity antenna
- 2 LCD Monitors In The Front
- 18-Way Adaptive Sport Seats Plus -inc: electric adjustment of seat backrest, seat height, fore/aft position, seat cushion inclination, seat cushion depth, lumbar support (4-way), seat cushion side bolster, backrest side bolsters and height and fore/aft adjustment of steering column
- Sport Front Seats w/Leather Back Material
- Driver Seat
- Passenger Seat
- 50-50 Folding Bucket Front Facing Fold Forward Seatback Rear Seat
- Gauges -inc: Speedometer, Odometer, Oil Pressure, Engine Coolant Temp, Tachometer, Turbo/Supercharger Boost, Oil Level, Oil Temperature, Trip Odometer and Trip Computer
- Fixed Rear Windows
- Sport Leather/Metal-Look Steering Wheel
- Front cupholder
- Valet Function
- Power Fuel Flap Locking Type
- Remote Keyless Entry w/Integrated Key Transmitter, 2 Door Curb/Courtesy, Illuminated Entry and Illuminated Ignition Switch
- Remote Releases -Inc: Power Cargo Access
- HomeLink Garage Door Transmitter
- Cruise control
- Dual Zone Front Automatic Air Conditioning
- Illuminated locking glove box
- Driver foot rest
- Full Alcantara Simulated Suede Headliner
- Leather Door Trim Insert
- Leather/Metal-Look Gear Shift Knob
- Interior Trim -inc: Carbon Fiber Instrument Panel Insert, Carbon Fiber Door Panel Insert, Carbon Fiber Console Insert and Metal-Look Interior Accents
- Leather Seat Trim w/Leather Interior
- Day-Night Auto-Dimming Rearview Mirror
- Driver And Passenger Visor Vanity Mirrors w/Driver And Passenger Illumination
- Full Floor Console w/Covered Storage, Mini Overhead Console, Rear Console w/Storage And 3 12V DC Power Outlets
- Front map lights
- Fade-to-off interior lighting
- Full Carpet Floor Covering -inc: Carpet Front And Rear Floor Mats
- Carpet Floor Trim
- Cargo Features -inc: Spare Tire Mobility Kit
- Cargo Space Lights
- Memory Settings Include
- FOB Controls -inc: Trunk/Hatch/Tailgate and Windows
- Memory Package -inc: driver's seating position, steering column and side mirrors as well as individual setting such as lights, wipers, climate control, door lock setting, instrument cluster and PCM (via remote)
- Driver And Passenger Door Bins
- Power 1st Row Windows w/Driver And Passenger 1-Touch Up/Down
- Delayed Accessory Power
- Power Door Locks w/Autolock Feature
- Redundant digital speedometer
- Trip computer
- Outside temp gauge
- Analog Display
- Fixed Front Head Restraints
- Front center armrest
- Perimeter alarm
- Engine immobilizer
- 3 12V DC Power Outlets
- Air filtration
- Passenger Capacity : 4
- Electronic stability control (ESC)
- ABS And Driveline Traction Control
- Side Impact Beams
- Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Seat-Mounted Side Airbags
- ParkAssist Front And Rear Parking Sensors
- Tire Specific Low Tire Pressure Warning
- Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Front Airbags w/Passenger Off Switch
- Curtain 1st Row Airbags
- Airbag Occupancy Sensor
- Driver And Passenger Knee Airbag
- Outboard Front Lap And Shoulder Safety Belts -inc: Pretensioners
- Back-up camera
- Fuel Economy Est-Combined (MPG) : 21
- EPA Fuel Economy Est - City (MPG) : 19
- EPA Fuel Economy Est - Hwy (MPG) : 24
- Tons/yr of CO2 Emissions @ 15K mi/year : 8.4
- Fuel Tank Capacity, Approx (gal) : 17.9
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US firm in full Boots takeover
US retailer Walgreens is to take full control of Boots the Chemist owner Alliance Boots after announcing a £9 billion cash and shares deal to swallow up the 55% of the company it does not already own.
The new group, Walgreen Boots Alliance, will be based in Chicago but the headquarters of Boots will remain in Nottingham.
Walgreens said a programme of cost-cutting would target one billion US dollars (£594 million) in savings by 2017.
Boots brands such as No7 and Botanics are already sold in Walgreens
Alliance Boots employs more than 108,000 staff in more than 25 countries, including 70,000 in the UK, where Boots has nearly 2,500 stores.
Walgreens bought a 45% stake in Alliance Boots for 6.7 billion US dollars (£4 billion) in 2012, with the option to buy the rest by August 2015.
But today's announcement means it will complete its take-up of the 55% remainder by February, in exchange for just over £3 billion in cash plus 144.3 million shares - with a value of just under £6 billion.
It brings the total value of the deal to around £9 billion, meaning Walgreens has spent about £13 billion acquiring Alliance Boots - which comprises both Boots the Chemist and pharmaceuticals distribution arm Alliance.
The latest transaction will reportedly net a £1.5 billion windfall for executive chairman Stefano Pessina, who took Alliance Boots private, with private equity firm KKR, in an £11.1 billion deal in 2007.
Walgreens said it had rejected the option of moving its corporate headquarters out of the US in an "inversion" strategy to reduce its tax bill.
The move would have echoed the strategy mooted by drugs firm Pfizer as part of its failed attempt to buy Britain's AstraZeneca, but Walgreens concluded it would not have been in the best interests of shareholders.
An extensive analysis found that despite financial benefits there were doubts over whether the switch would have been given the green light by US tax authorities.
It also considered the US public reaction to such a move by an "iconic American consumer retail company".
Walgreens said the merger would create a global leader in "pharmacy-led health and well-being retail" with more than 11,000 stores in 10 countries. It already has more than 8,500 locations in the US - where it also trades as Duane Reade.
The deal would also create the world's largest pharmaceutical wholesale and distribution network, with more than 370 centres delivering to more than 180,000 pharmacies, doctors, health centres and hospitals in 20 countries.
Mr Pessina, who will become executive vice chairman, said: "The expected creation of the new enterprise will represent the most significant milestone in the history of Alliance Boots and, importantly, a very positive step for the healthcare industry as a whole."
Chief executive Greg Wasson said: "This is a pivotal moment in Walgreens history as we venture ahead from the best corners in America to the four corners of the world."
The company is targeting revenue of 126 billion US dollars (£75 billion) to 130 billion US dollars (£77 billion) for 2016.
Mr Wasson said: "As we launch our global plan, we are more focused than ever on what it will take to compete and succeed on the world stage.
"We are uniquely positioned to be a leader and a champion for accessible, affordable healthcare, and that means continuing to innovate, to find new ways to be as efficient as possible, and more agile and nimble as we compete in the worldwide market."
It said its three-year cost-cutting plan would include savings at "corporate, field and store level".
Mr Wasson said this year Walgreens had seen "strategic closures" of certain distribution centres and stores, as well as exiting certain businesses and trimming costs at headquarters and "in the field".
He added: "We also plan to expand these efforts as we leverage the expertise of both companies and move forward integrating Walgreens and Alliance Boots."
Alliance Boots traces its roots back to 1849 when John Boot opened his first store selling herbal remedies in Goose Gate, Nottingham. It opened its 1,000th store in 1933 followed by the No7 cosmetics range two years later.
Boots Group merged with Alliance UniChem to form Alliance Boots in 2006 before it was taken private in Europe's largest leveraged buyout a year later.
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BUSHKILL — For a guy from New Jersey, Great Bear Golf Club sure felt like home.
BUSHKILL — For a guy from New Jersey, Great Bear Golf Club sure felt like home.
And then Matt McKeon met owner Charlie Kirkwood. McKeon knew he was home.
McKeon will be the new golf professional at Great Bear. After spending the last seven years at Plainfield Country Club, McKeon said he "took a leap of faith" after he met Kirkwood.
"Charlie Kirkwood is a pretty awesome guy," said McKeon, who is originally from the New Jersey shore. "I'm very confident in coming here."
It's been a rocky two years for the golf course, which was sold to Kirkwood — owner of Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort — last fall. It closed in the fall of 2011 and didn't reopen last year.
In September 2012, Kirkwood paid $850,000 for the Jack Nicklaus signature course — 7,025 yards, par 71 — and its clubhouse.
McKeon said the previously private course will be semi-private for at least the 2013 season. The new pro said once 300 people sign up for membership, the course will be private again. Currently, the course has 100 members.
"A bunch of members signing up are past members," McKeon said. "We had an open house last week for home owners."
McKeon has qualified for the 2013 PGA National Championship that will take place at Sunriver Resort, Ore., from June 23—26. In addition to playing in this year's national championship, he has won and placed in numerous NJPGA tournaments and was named one of the top 25 professionals in 2012.
For more information on club membership, go to www.greatbeargc.com.


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Red herring
A red herring is an argument, given in reply, that does not address the original issue. Critically, a red herring is a deliberate attempt to change the subject or divert the argument.
This isn't so much a fallacy as it is an evasion tactic. The red herring is similar to a "wild goose chase." When someone leads the debate off on a red herring, they are trying to divert attention away from a particular argument, and toward some inconsequential statement that you may have made, or inventing some tangent to go off on. Creationists often use this when they attack the Big Bang Theory to try and prove evolution wrong. The Big Bang and evolution are completely separate theories, and are not mutually inclusive. The Creationist trying to debate the Big Bang is a red herring.
- "Evolution is impossible because the Big Bang is merely speculation."
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After years of sitting on the sidelines out of uniform, Rudy finally gets the chance to dress and play in a real game.
Themes: Persistence, Pride, Inspiration, Ambition, Success, Fulfillment, Defining Moments, Joy, Perseverance, Reward, Opportunity, Dedication, Support, Carpe Diem, Example, Celebration, Greatness, Accomplishment, Goals, Victory
Main Idea: We Inspire Others When We Give It All We've Got
Scene Setup: Rudy has spent his entire life dreaming of the day he would play football for Notre Dame. Being far too small and without significant athletic ability, Rudy nevertheless has worked his...
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Everything is possible with God on your side, believe in yourself. Amene.
"ALL hard work brings a profit, but mere talk only leads to poverty" (Proverbs 14:23)
When you win, You encourage and make others feel like they've won too! - "Let your light SO shine before men, that they see your good works and glorify your father in Heaven" (Mathew 5:16)
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When people say dreams don't come true, tell them about Rudy
Ever since he was a little boy, Rudy Ruettiger has dreamed of attending Notre Dame University and playing on the Fighting Irish football team. But Rudy's dream doesn't seem very practical as his grades are not especially impressive, and standing a shade over five feet tall and weighing a little over 100 pounds, Rudy is hardly built for the gridiron. However, this young man learns to let nothing stop him from realizing his ambitions in this heartwarming true story.
MPAA: Rated PG for mild language.
Principal Cast: Sean Astin, Jon Favreau, and Ned BeattyDirector: David Anspaugh
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