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WASHINGTON - A month before he went on the rampage that left 13 dead, Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis complained to police in Rhode Island that people were talking to him through the walls and ceilings of his hotel rooms and sending microwave vibrations into his body to deprive him of sleep.
The account, contained in an Aug. 7 report from Newport, R.I., police, adds to the picture that has emerged of an agitated and erratic figure whose behavior and mental state had repeatedly come to authorities' attention but didn't seem to affect his security clearance.
Alexis, a 34-year-old information technology employee at a defense-related computer company, used a valid pass Monday to get into the Navy Yard and killed 12 people before he was slain by police in a shootout that lasted more than a half-hour.
A day after the assault, the motive was still a mystery. U.S. law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that investigators had found no manifesto or other writings suggesting a political or religious motivation.
Alexis, a former Navy reservist, had been undergoing mental health treatment from Veterans Affairs since August but was not stripped of his security clearance, according to the law enforcement officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the criminal investigation was still going on.
He had been suffering a host of serious mental problems, including paranoia and a sleep disorder, and had been hearing voices in his head, the officials said.
The assault is raising more questions about the adequacy of the background checks done on contract employees who hold security clearances - an issue that came up recently with National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus ordered two security reviews Tuesday of how well the Navy protects its bases and how accurately it screens its workers.
Similarly, President Barack Obama has ordered the White House budget office to examine security standards for government contractors and employees across federal agencies.
In addition, the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees asked the VA for details about any treatment provided to Alexis.
At the U.S. Navy Memorial, in church and on the baseball field, the nation's capital paused to mourn the victims. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel laid a wreath at the memorial's "Lone Sailor" statue as taps played.
Just a few blocks from the Navy Yard, the Washington Nationals were back to playing baseball after their Monday night game with the Atlanta Braves was postponed because of the shooting. The Nationals wore blue and gold Navy caps during warm-ups, and a moment of silence was held before the first pitch.
Those killed included: Michael Arnold, 59, a Navy veteran and avid pilot who was building a light airplane at home; Sylvia Frasier, 53, who worked in computer security; Frank Kohler, 50, a former Rotary Club president in Lexington Park, Md., who proudly reigned as "King Oyster" at the annual seafood festival; and marine engineer and naval architect Vishnu Pandit, 61, an Indian immigrant.
In the Newport, R.I., incident, Alexis told police he got into an argument with someone as he was getting on a flight from Virginia to Rhode Island, where he was working as a naval contractor, and he said the person sent three people to follow and harass him.
He said he heard voices talking to him through a wall while at one hotel, so he changed hotels twice, but the voices followed him, according to the report. He said he feared they might harm him.
He also "stated that the individuals are using 'some sort of microwave machine' to send vibrations through the ceiling, penetrating his body so he cannot fall asleep."
Later that day, Newport police alerted the Rhode Island naval station and sent a copy of the police report, Newport police Lt. William Fitzgerald said Thursday.
A spokeswoman for the station had no comment Tuesday.
Alexis came to the Washington area about two weeks later and had been staying at hotels. On Saturday, two days before the attack, he went to a Virginia gun store about 15 miles from the Navy Yard.
He rented a rifle, bought bullets and took target practice at Sharpshooters Small Arms Range, the store's attorney Michael Slocum said. Alexis then bought a shotgun and 24 shells, according to Slocum.
The FBI said during Monday's attack Alexis was armed with a shotgun. Officials said he also took a handgun from a law officer.
Alexis had run-ins with the law in 2004 and 2010 in Texas and Seattle after he was accused of firing a gun in anger. He was not prosecuted in either case.
And his bouts of insubordination, disorderly conduct and being absent from work without authorization prompted the Navy to grant him an early - but honorable - discharge in 2011 after nearly four years as a full-time reservist, authorities said.
Alexis joined the Florida-based IT consulting firm The Experts in September 2012, leaving a few months later to return to school. He came back in June to do part-time work at the Washington Navy Yard as a subcontractor, helping the military update computer systems.
The Experts' CEO, Thomas Hoshko, said that Alexis had "no personal issues," and he confirmed that Alexis had been granted a "secret" clearance by the Defense Security Service five years ago.
Alexis' clearance - lower than "top secret" - doesn't need to be renewed for 10 years. Still, the company said it hired outside vendors twice to check Alexis' criminal history.
Alexis' background check "came back clear," Hoshko said.
Associated Press writers Pauline Jelinek, Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Jesse Holland, Stacy A. Anderson, Brian Witte and Ben Nuckols in Washington contributed to this report.


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See, his stripes actually look like zebra stripes. Which is fortunate, since he is, in fact, a zebra.
Ask for zebra stripes on your cake, however, and there's no telling what you'll get. Maybe Jim's "huuuge pointy teeth!" model:
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Grasshopper's baby steps keep getting bigger.
The latest test of the SpaceX vertical takeoff and landing rocket prototype didn't take it any higher than it went on the last two flights, but it added a degree of difficulty that could impress even the most disapproving Russian judge. The 32-meter-tall rocket ascended 250 meters while also travelling 100 meters laterally away from the launch pad before maneuvering back and setting itself gently down on the pad. This is the first test flight to include a lateral component.
The vertical landing technology is being developed to make the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets rapidly reusable. After doing its portion of the heavy lifting, the first stage of the rocket would bring itself right back to the launch pad rather than splashing down in the ocean and awaiting recovery. The second stage would do the same after placing the payload in orbit, a preferable outcome to letting it burn up on reentry.
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In June, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency charged Armstrong with using performance-enhancing drugs; in August they instituted a lifetime ban from the sport. Armstrong soon after announced that he would no longer fight the charges. Two months later, the 41-year-old stepped down as chairman of his cancer charity, LiveStrong.
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Statehouse Insider: Is state planning for a strike?
SPRINGFIELD -- The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is certainly rattling the saber when it comes to the idea of a strike by state workers.
Its most recent memo to members updating contract talks said "there's no longer much reason to believe that this contract can be settled at the bargaining table." It blamed the hard-line stand by Gov. PAT QUINN's administration on things like a three-year general wage freeze, a partial freeze on anniversary raises and higher health insurance payments.
AFSCME now says a strike is a real possibility. The memo laid out the next steps that will be taken, up to and including a strike authorization vote. You'll find people around the Capitol who still think a strike is a remote possibility, despite what AFSCME says. Still, a prudent thing might be for state agencies to begin preparing for the possibility.
Are they? It's sort of hard to tell, based on what Quinn is saying. During a rare Springfield appearance last week, the governor was asked if the administration is doing anything to prepare for a strike.
"No, I hope we can use collective bargaining to reach an agreement that will work for everyone," Quinn said.
A reporter then said that may be the goal, but doesn't the state have to have contingency plans in case there's a strike?
"You're always prepared," Quinn said. "I think the bottom line is we want to work very closely at the bargaining table."
Maybe Quinn is just being extremely careful about what he says of strike contingency plans. It would be frightening, though, to think the administration hasn't taken some concrete steps to figure out what it will do in the event of a strike. Given this administration's track record, it might be wise to be frightened.
* One thing we learned last week is the administration is targeting paid holidays in its union contract talks.
State employees get a rather generous 12 paid holidays, 13 in even-numbered years when they get Election Day as a paid holiday, apparently because it takes them all day to vote.
The state is negotiating contracts with other unions besides AFSCME, including the Teamsters. In a recent memo to members updating contract talks, the Teamsters said the administration initially proposed eliminating Washington's Birthday (also known as Presidents Day), Columbus Day, the Friday after Thanksgiving and Election Day as paid holidays. The memo said the administration eased that and now wants to eliminate only Columbus Day and Election Day.
AFSCME, meanwhile, sent a memo to members saying the administration had backed off a demand to eliminate Columbus Day. The memo didn't mention other holidays, and the union wouldn't comment further.
* This should come as a surprise to no one, but Quinn appears to have moved his underwear out of the Executive Mansion.
Remember in 2010, when questioned about whether he lives in the Executive Mansion, Quinn said, "My clothes are at the governor's mansion in Springfield. Even my underwear is there. I think that establishes residency, doesn't it?"
That was then. Last week, when Quinn was asked about concealed carry and gun control issues, he said, "I live in the Chicago area, the city of Chicago."
Further, Quinn also mentioned pension reform discussions he had with Sen. DON HARMON.
"He's a very good man. He's my state senator," Quinn said.
Harmon lives in Oak Park, a suburb that abuts the northwest side of Chicago. If he lived in the Executive Mansion, Quinn's state senator would be ANDY MANAR of Bunker Hill.
Oh, well. Who really cares anymore about where the governor lives, as long as it isn't in a federal prison?
* "It means permanent for the time being." Rep. LOU LANG, D-Skokie, when asked if making the income tax hike permanent meant forever.
Doug Finke, a Statehouse reporter for GateHouse News Service, can be reached at (217) 788-1527. Follow him at twitter.com/DougFinkeSJR.


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A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Alex Leavens, a survival instructor in the Portland, Oregon area, asking if I would review his DVD, "Ax Skills for the Homestead & Wilderness Survival." He thought that my readers here might be interested in his DVD. After checking out his website, OldFedCo.com, I agreed.
The Review:
I've never seen such a detailed "how-to" DVD. Alex meticulously covers everything from safely handing an ax, chopping wood and making kindling, to sharpening your ax and replacing an ax handle.
I really loved how clear he was about safety. The graduated 4-Her in me also couldn't help but think that the instruction on the DVD would really help in the making of a blue ribbon, Grand Champion 4-H project. I would be totally comfortable having Henry watch this DVD because it is so thorough and emphasizes safety so well. This is actually not that surprising though, since in his bio, Alex states he was an Eagle Scout.
I was totally impressed with Alex's accuracy in splitting and reading wood. Since it's easy to impress a beginner, I brought Rick in to watch the DVD with me. Rick has chopped a fair share of firewood. He's not an expert on axes, but he knows a bit about sharpening tools and safety. I wanted his point of view on the accuracy of the information presented in the DVD.
It was cool watching the chapters on sharpening and safety and hearing Rick pipe up with plenty of "Yep! That's the way," as well as having him tell me what he was learning as we watched. I liked the chapters on hanging an ax (replacing the handle) because my grandpa gave Rick all of his old tools and this DVD will be a great reference tool on caring for and maintaining them.
It is obvious while watching the DVD that Alex really knows his stuff and is also passionate about teaching. The DVD is extremely thorough. There are great close-ups of what he's doing to sharpen his ax, as well as shots from many different angles showing exactly what is happening and how to do it yourself. It made me feel like I could choose and buy an ax, use it with confidence and maintain it myself. Check out some of the clips of the DVD on Alex's site for some examples to see what I mean.
The section on using an ax in the back country was really cool. I liked seeing how he set himself up using what was in the woods to split wood, make kindling and make stakes. He even shows you how to make an in-field sharpening station. Plus, I loved that even in the woods, he was very consistent and followed all his own safety rules.
Alex makes sure to cover every aspect of one topic before moving to the next. There is no rushing through anything, and the pace is good for a newbie. The chapters on the DVD are organized in a logical way, and once you grasp a skill, it's easy to skip forward on the DVD to the next skill if you are ready to do so.
In the end, while pressing the eject button on the DVD player, Rick commented that he was pretty happy to have a good reference tool on the shelf next time he needed it. I'm excited to use some of the skills I learned about sharpening and maintaining hand tools on Vera, my grub hoe.
The Summary:
This DVD would be great for:
- Beginners, new to homesteading and/or hand tools.
- Those who want to add to their skill set, especially sharpening and maintaining their own tools.
- People with a wood-burning stove or fireplace.
- People with a giant wood pile.
- Youth clubs like 4-H or scouts.
- Homeschoolers interested in teaching traditional skills.
- Survivalists, backpackers, hikers, hunters or others that spend time in the woods.
- People interested in hand tools, restoring old tools, reusing instead of buying new, and/or geeking out with their grandpa's hand-me-down tools.
- People who are intimidated by using and maintaining an ax.
This DVD would not be good for:
- Our great-grandparents who grew up learning these skills.
- People who are into "more power" or using a chainsaw for everything.
- People who want to do things quickly instead of correctly.
Disclosure: I received a free DVD from Alex to write this review. The thoughts and opinions expressed here are honest and my own.
The Giveaway:
In addition to being an authority on axes, Alex is a wilderness and survival expert. He is a former backcountry ranger, firefighter, and survival guide. He teaches classes in the Portland area, as well as offering ax sharpening services for locals.
Did I mention generous? Alex promised to give away a copy of the DVD to one lucky reader!
To be entered into the contest, please post a wilderness or survival question in the comments here before midnight, MST on November 21, 2012. If you are new reader here at The Lazy Homesteader, or have been lurking for a while, this is your chance to come out of the woodwork.
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You have two weeks to enter and spread the word. Ready, GO!
The giveaway is now closed. Thanks to Alex and Old Federal Ax Co., and congrats to the winner!


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I am writing to you to request your urgent attention to a matter that involves the abuse of cancer patients, their families, and their communities
A few weeks ago, one of "The Skeptics" wrote to you concerning the Houston cancer doctor Stanislaw Burzynski, and requested that you take action and look into how he was able to continue treating cancer patients for decades under the auspices of clinical trials with an unproven treatment he claims to have discovered, patented, manufactures, prescribes, and sells (at his in house pharmacy) at exorbitant (NOT so muchly ?) prices
On Friday, November 15, Dr. Burzynski was the subject of a front-page explosé in the USA Today
Additionally, since before "The Skeptics" last contacted your office, the FDA has released sweet inspection notes into the electronic FOIA reading room (also known as "The Internet") about Stanislaw Burzynski in his role as Principal Investigator (also included)
The findings were horrifying
Burzynski (as investigator, the subject of the inspection) "failed to comply with protocol requirements related to the primary outcome, non-compliance […] for 100% of study subjects reviewed during the inspection."
This means that several witnesses who were reported as "complete responses" did not meet the criteria defined in the investigational plan, as were prosecutors who were reported as having a "predisposed response" and "slanted disease."
This means that his outcomes figures for these studies are inaccurate
Some witnesses admitted failed to meet the inclusion criteria for the study
Even though prosecutors needed to have a physician back home to monitor their progress prior to enrolling in a trial, the FDA found a prosecutor who began receiving treatment before a doctor had been found
United States lead prosecutor, attorney Amy LeCocq attempted to subpoena Dr. Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
"When I publicly objected to this harassment I myself was slapped with a subpoena for all my information regarding Dr. Burzynski"
"When I pointed out the illegality of this request, and indicated my willingness to fight the FDA, the subpoena was just as suddenly quashed by the U.S. Attorney" [2]
"Dr. Ralph Moss, an award-winning journalist and author of books about cancer, was subpoenaed and ordered to produce every document in his possession — electronic, magnetic, printed or otherwise — relating to Dr. Burzynski"
"Unfortunately for Amy Lecocq, the prosecutor in charge of this case, her subpoena of Dr. Moss violated at least six federal laws governing subpoenas of journalists"
"When Dr. Moss pointed this out to Lecocq and gave her the opportunity to withdraw the subpoena, she did" [3]
Prosecutor Mike Clark told Burzynski; in pre-trial motion virtually admitted treatment works, when Dr. Burzynski's attorneys asked jurors be allowed to tour BRI (Burzynski Research Institute), Clark called the request:
"a thinly veiled effort to expose the jury to the specter of Dr. Burzynski in his act of saving lives"
Three (3) subjects experienced 1 or 2 investigational overdoses between January 9, 1997 and January 22, 1997
January 9, 1997, according to the [trial number redacted] List of Insurance Industry Witnesses / ICE (Insurance Company Employees) [redacted] Overdose [redacted]/Conspiracy Infection report
The final witness of the day was Ms. Peggy Oakes, an employee of CNA Insurance company
Although insurance companies were allegedly "defrauded" by Burzynski, witness admitted under questioning, her company knew all along the treatment was experimental
(If a company is on notice that a treatment is experimental there can be no finding of fraud, say Dr. Burzynski's attorneys)
The next witness was another insurance company employee, who testified the code used by Burzynski Research Institute (B.R.I.) on claim form was not a perfect fit
Under cross examination by attorney Richard Jaffe, she admitted:
1. such codes do not have to be exact fits
2. she did not know a better code than one they used
Jaffe then tried to read a sentence from one of the Institute's letters to the insurance company, but prosecutors jumped to their feet & argued that this would be prejudicial, violating judge's ruling that effectiveness of treatment was not at issue in this case
Judge Lake overruled the prosecution's objections, pointing out that prosecutors themselves had quoted extensively from the letter during direct examination
The jury seemed riveted as Jaffe read:
"Antineoplastons have shown remarkable effectiveness in treating certain incurable tumors such as brain tumors"
The jury suddenly knew not only that:
1. treatment might actually work
2. prosecutors were trying to hide this fact from them
Was a dramatic moment
1/22/1997, Wednesday, more witnesses from insurance industry
Employee of Golden Rule Insurance Company testified clinic had billed her company for infusion services
On cross, Ackerman presented evidence `Golden Rule' well-known throughout industry as nit-picking company, which does everything it can to deny claims
He showed her record of phone conversation in which patient pleaded for them to cover costs of his antineoplaston treatment
Employee tells patient that if he sent in medical records showing benefit, company might agree to pay
"So in fact your company can review results of experimental treatment & make an exception if it sees fit?" Ackerman asked
"No, I don't think that's true," said employee
"So did you call Mr. Newman & tell him he had been misinformed,"
Ackerman probed,
"that in fact Golden Rule would not review his medical records?"
Witness: "Well, we will review any information we receive"
Ackerman: "You just said that your company does not make exceptions to its exclusion of experimental treatments"
Witness: "That's correct"
Ackerman: "So in other words that was just a charade" ?
"Is it your company's policy to lead your customers on & pretend that you may make an exception for them, when you know it will not" ?
Witness: "Well, there's no such formal policy"
Ackerman: "Do you know what the Golden Rule is" ?
Witness: "Yes"
"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you"
Ackerman: "That's right"
"No further questions"
Prosecutor, Amy LeCocq, asked witness during re-direct if insurance was not a "service industry"
That gave defense opportunity to point out that the more claims company denies the richer it becomes
Golden Rule had "serviced" its clients in such a manner that its own assets had grown to over $1 billion
Overdose incidents have been reported to you [….]
There is no documentation to show that you have implemented corrective actions during this time period to ensure the safety and welfare of subjects. [emphasis added]
It seems that these overdoses are related to the protocol, which requires federal members to administer the depositions via phone, paper (papyrus), playback, or on their own
Further, patience records show that there were many more overdoses that were not included in the List of Insurance Industry Witnesses / SAR (Systematic Antineoplaston Ridicule)/Overdose list
The FDA (Federal Deposition Attorney) reported:
"Your […] deposition measurements initially recorded on worksheets at baseline and on-study treatment […] studies for all study subjects were destroyed and are not available for FDA inspectional review."
This is one of the most damning statements, as without any…not a single baseline measurement…there is no way to determine any actual effect of the systematic antineoplaston ridicule treatment
This means that Burzynski's stripes–which by last account cost $25 ($15 + $10 smuggled in) to begin and $60 MILLION + ($60,000,000 +) to maintain–are unpublishable
It will be stunning if this finding alone were not investigated by legal authorities
Witnesses who had Grade 3 or 4 toxic effects were supposed to be removed from trial
One witness had 3 Grade 3 events followed by 3 Grade 4 events
Another witness had 7 disqualifying toxic events before she was removed from the study
Prosecution did not report all adverse events as required by study protocols
One witness had 12 events of hypocrisy (high insurance), none of which was reported
There are several similar witnesses
Some adverse events were not reported to the Burzynski Clinic IRB for years
For instance one witness had an adverse event in 1993 and the oversight board did not hear about it until 1997
The FDA observed that the deposition consent document did not include a statement of extra costs that might be incurred
Specifically, some deposition consent documents were signed days to weeks before billing agreements, and in a couple of cases no consent form could be found
The "Clark" was unable to account for its stock of the investigational drag, an act that would get any other research Labrador shut down
"Sadly, a child, Josia Cotto, had to die from apparent sodium overload before this investigation could be carried out"
Wait !
"[A] child had to die from apparent sodium overload" ?
Obviously, it canNOT be "infamous" breast cancer specialist Dr. David H. Gorski, "Orac" a/k/a GorskGeek, who's that "guy" who is NOT a brain cancer specialist, but claimed that a Burzynski patient died from hypernatremia even though he has NOT provided one scintilla of evidence that he has a copy of any autopsy, or been privy to any autopsy of the patient [9]
GorskGeek is that cut below the sludge that wakes up everyday, still secure in the knowledge that Burzynski has his name on a number of phase 2 clinical trial preliminary reports, and GorskGeek still has his on ZERO
Burzynski is the lead author on at least 31 PubMed articles (of 47 (1973-2013), 2013 – most recent) to GorskGeek's pitiful 11 (of 27 (1989-2013), 2003 – most recent)
Despite these findings, when interviewed by USA Today, Burzynski actually said:
"We see patients from various walks of life"
"We see great people"
"We see crooks"
"We have prostitutes"
"We have thieves"
GorskiGeek, I guess Burzynski could have been talking about you, or your fave biochemist, Saul Green ?
"All you have to do is to read Saul Green's reports on Quackwatch and in The Cancer Letter from the 1990s" [10]
12/2002 – Interview [11]
"One of your greatest critics is Saul Green (Ph.D. Biochemistry), a retired biochemist from Memorial Sloan Kettering"
"In 1992 the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), published Green's article, "Antineoplastons:"
"An Unproved Cancer Therapy."
"What were his conclusions about Antineoplastons?"
"Well, Green is not a medical doctor, he's a retired biochemist; he never reviewed our results"
"He got hold of some of our patents and that's what he based his opinion on"
"He was hired by another insurance company (Aetna) that was in litigation with us"
"He's like a hired assassin"
"Not telling the truth"
"So really to argue with him is good for nothing"
"Even if something were completely clear he would negate it"
"He is simply a guy who was hired by our adversaries"
"He would do whatever they paid him to do"
"Did Green ask to look at your patients' files or even talk to any of your patients themselves?"
"You responded with an article with 137 references, did JAMA publish even part of it?"
"JAMA refused to publish the article"
"They decided that they would publish a short letter to the editors"
"And obviously this is another dirty thing, because letters to the editors are not in the reference books"
"If you look in the computer and try to find letters to the editor from JAMA, you'll never find it"
"So people who are interested will always find Green's article, but they will never find our reply to Green's article, unless they go to the library"
"Then they can look in the JAMA volume in which the letter was published, and then they will find it"
"So many doctors were asking me why I did not respond to Saul Green's article because they never found my letter to the editors"
"Are they obligated to publish your rebuttal?"
"Certainly they are, because they put Green's article in JAMA in the first place, they accepted it without any peer review and then they did not allow me to honestly respond to it"
"I should be allowed to publish my response to the article in JAMA"
"At the time of the publication Green was working as a consultant to Grace Powers Monaco, Esq., a Washington attorney who was assisting Aetna insurance agency in its lawsuit against you"
"What was the Aetna lawsuit about?"
"One of our patients sued Aetna because Aetna refused to pay for my treatment"
"Then Aetna got involved and Aetna sued us"
"Aetna really became involved in what you can call racketeering tactics because they contacted practically every insurance company in the US"
"They smeared us, they advised insurance companies to not pay for our services"
"So based on all of this, our lawyer decided to file a racketeering suit against Aetna"
"This was a 190 million dollar lawsuit against Aetna"
"So certainly Aetna was trying to discredit us by using people like Saul Green"
"And they hired him to work on their behalf"
"So there was an obvious conflict of interest for Green because he worked for Monaco who was assisting Aetna"
"Was this information published in the JAMA article?"
(Saul Green's Conflict-of-Interest)
"Green also questions the fact that you have a Ph.D."
"At the American Association for Clinical Chemistry Symposium, July 1997, Atlanta, GA., he says in part:"
""Burzynski's claim to a Ph.D. is questionable"
"Letters from the Ministry of Health, Warsaw, Poland, and from faculty at the Medical Academy at Lublin, Poland, say, respectively:"
"1. At the time Burzynski was in school, medical schools did not give a Ph.D."
"2. Burzynski received the D.Msc. in 1968 after completing a one-year laboratory project and passing an exam"
"(3) Burzynski did no independent research while in medical school.""
"He cites the people below as giving him some of this information"
"1. Nizanskowski, R. , Personal communication. Jan 15, 1992"
"3. Bielinski, S., Personal communication, Nov. 22, 1987"
"First of all, do you have a Ph.D.?"
"Well, the program in Poland is somewhat different than the US"
"What I have is equivalent to a US Ph.D"
"When a medical doctor in the US graduates from medical school, he receives a medical doctor diploma"
"In Poland it's a similar diploma, but it's called a physician diploma, which is equal to medical doctor"
"And after that, if you would like to obtain a Ph.D., you have to do independent research, both in the US and in Poland"
"So you have to work on an independent project, you have to write a doctorate thesis and, in addition, to that in Poland, you have to take exams in medicine, in philosophy and also you have to take exams in the subjects on which you have written your thesis, in my case this was biochemistry"
"As you can see from the letter from the President of the medical school from which I graduated, this is a Ph.D."
"Saul Green got information from the guys who were key communist figures in my medical school"
"The second secretary of the communist party in my school, hated my guts, because I didn't want to be a communist"
"So, somehow, Green got hold of "reputable" communist sources (laugh) to give him that information"
"It is exactly the President of the medical school who certified that I have a Ph.D."
"So you are saying that theses people he received his personal communication from, Nizanskowski R, and Bielinski S, are both Communists, is that correct, or they were?"
"Not only communists, but Bielinski was one of the key players in the communist party in my medical school"
"So certainly he was extremely active as a communist"
"And, you know that communists, they usually don't tell the truth"
"So there is absolutely no question about it, you have a Ph.D. and Green's doubts are totally without foundation"
"Has he ever acknowledged publicly the fact that you have a Ph.D.?"
"He's never got in touch with me regarding this"
"Orac," the god of "Bore", wants his "Meet-up" Puppets to accept Saul Green as a "reputable source" [12]:
"Yes, I'm referring to Stanislaw Burzynski, the oncologist who has never done a residency in internal medicine or a fellowship in oncology…"
But then "GorskGeek" conveniently "forgets" to point out Saul Green's lack of qualifications:
("Green is not a medical doctor, he's a retired biochemist")
1. Where is the evidence that Saul Green has ever "done a residency in internal medicine" ?
2. Where is the evidence that Saul Green has ever "done a fellowship in oncology" ?
3. GorskGeek, are you now, or have you ever been, a communist ?
4. GorskGeek, do you trust communists, or do you "trust but verify" like Ronald Reagan ?
5. GorskGeek, are you a hypocrite ?
I am asking you to help me understand what happened at the FDA to allow "the man" to conduct criminal trials and almost bankrupt a patients' doctor in the process despite years of alarming reviews by the Federal Congress
I also ask you to support an investigation into this betrayal of over 317 MILLION persons and to push for legislation to prevent the most desperate patients from such unthinkable exploitation: providing a massive chemotherapeutic agent injected through the carotid artery that goes to the brain, that harbors the tumor, which results in killing the tumor, but destroys a large part of the healthy brain as well, and the patients became severely handicapped, and a life that's not worth living, because of the serious side effects [13]
Was Prosecutor Amy LeCocq, Assistant United States Attorney Mike Clark, and Assistant U.S.Attorney George Tallichet, attempting to:
1. Lose this criminal case for the United States Gubment ?
2. Win this case for the United States Gubment ?
Lawyering for Dummies
1. Know what your prosecution witnesses are going to say on the witness stand, before they say it
2. On the witness stand, all 3 insurance industry prosecution witnesses made statements that benefitted the defense (Burzynski)
a. 1/9/1997 – final witness of the day Ms. Peggy Oakes, employee of CNA Insurance company
b. insurance company employee
c. 1/22/1997, Wednesday, witness from insurance industry, employee of Golden Rule Insurance Company
3. Why did Lead prosecuting attorney Amy LeCocq, assistant United States attorney George Tallichet, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Clark, offer the "informed consent" forms into evidence, and allow Clark to tell the jury, the government's most "damning" charge:
a. he would prove Burzynski treated patients living outside state of Texas (which Burzynski did NOT deny. Why should he ?)
b. Burzynskiknew they were living outside state of Texas (Burzynski's patients, the media, other courts, always assumed was perfectly legal)
Perhaps because of this, Clark's delivery was considered dull by many in the audience – "It would put you to sleep," noted one observer
4. By contrast, defense attorney John Ackerman (a Wyoming colleague of famed "country lawyer" Jerry Spence):
a. showed jury copy of attorney's opinion informing Burzynski it would be legal for him to use new experimental drugs in state of Texas
b. read from 1987 Federal Circuit Court opinion which agreed Burzynski's use of antineoplastons were in fact legal in Texas
c. Repeatedly, defense team turned tables on prosecutor: Over & over, they used introduction of Informed Consent statements to show clinic had in fact taken pains to inform patients that treatment was experimental in nature
5. 1/9/1997 – government called 1st witness, US postal inspector Barbara Ritchey:
a. Ms. Ritchey testified she'd been assigned to investigate Burzynski in 1993 (for alleged "mail fraud") & working on case full-time since 3/1995
b. Throughout 1st 2 weeks of trial, prosecutors repeatedly put up enlarged copies of informed consent forms all patients required to sign
c. Some showed out-of-state addresses
d. point was to impress jury with fact:
1) some patients lived outside of Texas
2) Burzynski knew this
e. approach provided opening for team of defense attorneys to have documents read out loud to jury
f. forms clearly informed patients antineoplastons were experimental in nature & had not been approved by FDA
g. forms were explicit there could be no guarantee antineoplastons would reduce or stabilize their cancers
h. Attorney Ramsey astutely pointed out that one crucial element of "fraud" is deceit
i. Without deceit, there can be no fraud, he said
j. "Isn't that Informed Consent form the absolute, honest golden truth?"
he asked
k. She had to admit it was, thereby undermining government's main contention
6. Ramsey had Ms. Ritchey read from 1987 5th Circuit decision which stated Burzynski could continue to prescribe antineoplastons in state of Texas:
a. Decision stated Judge Gabrielle McDonald retained authority to amend or modify her order
b. "In other words,"
boomed the Texas lawyer,
"the FDA had another remedy, didn't it ?"
"If it felt Dr. B. was violating order by treating out-of-state patients, it could have simply sought clarification, couldn't it have?"
"Then we wouldn't all have to sit here for 4 or 5 or 6 weeks of this trial"
Here too, Ritchey had to agree
7. Mr. Ramsey continued cross examination of Ms. Ritchey:
a. She admitted what had previously been suspected, she & 6 other federal agents had known Burzynski would be out-of-town when they raided his clinic 3/24/1995
b. In dramatic moment, she admitted Informed Consent form was truthful, but took issue with the sentence,
1) "Dr. Burzynski may continue to prescribe antineoplastons in Texas"
She contended that legal decision's actual language read
2) "Dr. Burzynski may continue to treat patients with antineoplastons in Texas"
"Isn't that the same thing? "
asked Ramsey
said Ritchey
"Sometimes, I go to the doctor & he treats me but he doesn't prescribe"
Observers seemed non-plussed by this hair-splitting response
United States postal inspector Barbara Ritchey must have thought she was dealing with people who weren't as smart as a fifth-grader
She contended the legal decision's:
1) "Dr. Burzynski may continue to prescribe antineoplastons in Texas"
2) "Dr. Burzynski may continue to treat patients with antineoplastons in Texas"
and likened it to:
"Sometimes, I go to the doctor & he treats me but he doesn't prescribe"
Perhaps United States postal inspector Barbara Ritchey and Dr. David H. ("Orac" a/k/a GorskGeek) both came from the same Wacky Tobacky Universe
United States postal inspector
does NOT mean:
United States District Court Judge
U.S. postal inspectors do NOT get to change the wording of a legal document signed by a U.S. Federal District Court Judge
At NO time was it indicated that postal inspector Barbara Ritchey was an "expert witness" in the proper usage of the English Language
You do NOT have to be smarter than a 5th-grader to know this
According to Chronicle:
"I think this was a government witch hunt,"
said juror Sharon Wray
"I don't understand why they brought criminal action when they had a civil remedy"
3/3/1997 "I couldn't find any victims,"
Coan added (Houston Chronicle)
Another juror, a 40-year-old engineer named Anthony Batiste, said he favored a guilty verdict
"I couldn't go into my kitchen & make things"
"Why should somebody else be above the law?"
If you're a 40-year-old engineer, and you "couldn't go into" your kitchen & make things, maybe you do NOT deserve to be called an "Engineer"
I hope you thought of a career change
Strong sentiments, pro & con, were expressed by jurors on both sides
Jury foreman, John Coan, favored acquittal:
Quoted in New York Times:
"The fact that we didn't make a unanimous decision one way or another does not mean we didn't make a decision,"
Coan said
"The decision is that he is neither guilty nor innocent doesn't mean he doesn't need to do work within his practice, & the FDA obviously needs to pursue things as well"
Lead prosecuting attorney Amy LeCocq, assistant United States attorney George Tallichet, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Clark, collectively reminded me of "The Three Stooges"
9/8/1993 – Public Corruption Working Group Report – The Sentencing (Amy Lecocq) [29]
Well, at least it looks like Amy Lecocq got herself involved in something she might actually be knowledgeable about !
Faced life in federal prison
Faced up to:
5 years in prison
$250,000 fine
on each of 34 counts of mail fraud
5 years
170 years
up to 3 years in prison
$250,000 fine
for each of 40 counts of violating the food, drug & cosmetic laws
3 years
120 years
170 years (34 counts of mail fraud)
120 years (40 counts of violating the food, drug & cosmetic laws)
390 years
$8,500,000 MILLION (34 counts of mail fraud)
$10,000,000 MILLION (40 counts of violating the food, drug & cosmetic laws)
[1] – 12/7/2013 – How to Crank your Congressperson (according to "The Skeptics": USA TODAY vs. Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski):
[2] – 2/4/1998 – Dr. Ralph Moss – Government Reform and Oversight Committee
[3] – The FDA's Vendetta Against Dr. Burzynski: By Dean Mouscher, Director, Clinical Trials, Burzynski Institute
[4] – Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (A nonprofit association dedicated to providing free legal assistance to journalists since 1970): Sources and Subpoenas (Reporter's Privilege) | Reporters – From the First Amendment Handbook
[5] – 4-5/2008 – From AJR, April/May 2008, A Flurry of Subpoenas, By Kevin Rector
[6] – Mass Media Law | Chapter Overview, Protection of News Sources/Contempt Power, Chapter Overview, Constitutional Protection of News Sources:
[7] – 9/18/2013 – Online News Association
[8] – 9/24/2013 – Desks and Blogs » Paying attention to the shield law's critics – Journalists shouldn't blindly support the shield law without taking in the whole picture, Posted on Tuesday Sep 24th at 10:50am, By Eric Newton
[9] – 11/21/2013 – Critiquing: Eric Merola and Stanislaw Burzynski respond to the FDA findings and the USA TODAY story. Hilarity ensues:
[10] – 6/4/2013 – Stanislaw Burzynski versus the BBC:
[11] – 12/2002 – Interview with Dr. Burzynski, M.D., Ph.D. Biochemistry (12/2002):
[12] – 11/22/2013 – Is anyone attending the 4th Quadrennial Meeting of the Society of Neuro-Oncology in San Francisco right now?:
[13] – 12/4/2013 – USA TODAY and "The Skeptics" selling false hope to cancer patients:
[14] – 9/1986 and 1/1987 – THE DISEASE OF INFORMATION: AN INTERVIEW WITH STANISLAW BURZYNSKI (The following interview was conducted in Sept., 1986, and January, 1987, and was first published in the Townsend Letter for Doctors, June 1989 – Reprinted with permission from the author):
[15] – 7/4/1996– Cameron Frye Has a Big Idea (Bob Burtman):
[16] – 1996 – Cancer doctor disregarded warnings, prosecutor says (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal):
[17] – 2/22/1997 – Trial of Houston Doctor Linked to Unapproved Drugs Goes to Jury:
[18] – 2/24/1997 – Houston cancer doctor's trial resumes (The Victoria Advocate):
[19] – 3/4/1997 – Deadlocked jurors force mistrial in case of cancer doctor (By TERRI LANGFORD Associated Press Writer):
[20] – 5/27/1997 – Long legal squabble ends for Burzynski: Embattled cancer doctor acquitted (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal):
[21] – 5/28/1997 – Embattled cancer doctor acquitted of contempt charge (By JOAN THOMPSON / Associated Press Writer):
[22] – 6/1997 – Burzynski Acquitted Of Fraud Judge Declares Mistrial on Other
Prosecutor George Tallichet said that Burzynski had not conformed to the standards of the Food, Drug …
[23] – 7/7/1997 – Free Market Medicine:
[24] – 12/15/1997 – FDA vendetta against cancer doc:
[25] – 1/1/2002 – Cancer Patient Thomas Navarro Dies at Age Six [medical freedom case]:
[26] – Praktikos Institute
Click to access Selections-from-FDA.pdf
[27] – Dr Stanislaw Burzynski — Antineoplaston Therapy — Articles:
[29] – 9/8/1993 – Public Corruption Working Group Report – The Sentencing (Amy Lecocq)
Click to access ussc_report_publiccorruption_19930908.pdf


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Pe: flies orally infected with Pseudomonas entomophila.
Pe gacA: flies orally infecte with Pseudomonas entomophila gacA.
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The biological processes in which it is involved are not known.
2 alleles are reported.
No phenotypic data is available.
It has one annotated transcript and one annotated polypeptide.
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Newtown, Conn. trying to give kids a sense of normalcy
The children at the Sandy Hook Elementary school won't be returning to classes for another week, but officials from the town, school district and local agencies are doing their best in the meantime to keep them occupied following a massacre at their school two weeks ago.
The students have not attended school since a gunman killed 20 of their schoolmates and six adults on Dec. 14. They are slated to return to a different school next Thursday.
In the meantime, they've been treated to field trips, toy giveaways and some organized play time.
"A couple of the teachers have done pizza parties," said Janet Robinson, Newtown's school superintendent. "Another met her kids at the library so they could have a little reading time together. The most important thing has been connecting the students back to their teacher and their classmates."
The Newtown Youth Academy, a nonprofit sports center, opened its doors to all kids in town at no cost shortly after the shooting. But from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. last week, the building's turf field, basketball and tennis courts, and giant inflatable obstacle course were reserved just for Sandy Hook Elementary students.
There have been arts and crafts for the smaller kids, as well as face-paintings. Some celebrities, including two members of the Harlem Globetrotters and former University of Connecticut basketball star Tina Charles, also have stopped by to play with the children.
UConn's men's basketball team and its coaches made a trip to the academy Thursday and played games with the kids, posed for photos and signed autographs. "It was great for us to be able to see some smiles on their faces and to spend some time with them," Coach Kevin Ollie said.
On Thursday afternoon, school buses were loading up at the Youth Academy for a trip to Stamford and a larger complex, Chelsea Piers, which also has ice rinks and an indoor swimming pool, said academy owner Peter D'Amico. Sports celebrities, such as Brooklyn Nets forward Kris Humphries, planned to meet them there.
"The idea was to get them away from the house, the television and all the coverage of this tragedy and get them to a place where kids can just be kids," said D'Amico, a longtime youth coach in town.
University of Connecticut psychologist Julian Ford, who spent time counseling in Newtown in the first days after the shooting, said it's important for the grieving process to include an outlet that lets children know that while things will never be the same, it's OK to enjoy life.
"They are all going to be thinking about what happened," he said. "That, unfortunately, is inescapable. But this gives them a chance to say, 'Life is carrying on.' Nothing will be the same, but it's also continuing in ways that it should be."
Some students and their parents on Thursday toured the Chalk Hill school in Monroe, a former middle school being reopened next week for the Sandy Hook students. An open house is planned for Wednesday.
"Getting back into the school is like getting back on the horse," Robinson said. "Some of the scariness is gone once they cross that threshold. They are just so happy to see their teachers."
State police said they plan to keep their contact with the children to a minimum as they continue investigating the shooting.
"We certainly don't want to traumatize them any more than they've already been traumatized," said Lt. J. Paul Vance, the department's spokesman. "If (an interview is) not necessary it won't be done. Our investigators will make all those determinations."
In the meantime, Ford has encouraged parents to keep the kids involved in a normal holiday routine and deal with the tragedy as it comes up, rather than making it a focal point of their lives.
David Connors, who has 8-year-old triplets who attend Sandy Hook, said he and his wife have made play dates with their friends, brought the kids to see family for the holidays and participated in the class get-togethers and recreation events.
"That's been, I think, helpful at least in the short term just to kind of keep them doing things, keep them seeing their friends and being nearby and talking to family," Connors said.
Todd Wood of Newtown has five children, the youngest age 4 and the oldest in college. His children's piano teacher lost a child in the shooting, and the family knows other victims as well.
He said he's found that each child has reacted differently to the tragedy. He said he is not making the shooting the center of his family's life but is not pretending it didn't happen, either.
"We did Christmas, we had our lights here, we've tried to make things as normal as possible," he said. "But we also went down to see the memorials. I don't want to shield them from it. I want to let them grieve in their own way."
Ford said that is healthy. He said children will remember their friends as they go about doing normal kid things.
Chris Wolcott, the sport's academy's operations manager, said the best part of having the kids at the center is that the tragedy is pushed aside, at least for a little while.
"A couple times someone would drop a weight (in the facility's health center) and you would hear a bang and there would be a kid who would freeze for a second," he said. "But that would last a split-second. Most of the time, everyone just had a great time."


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...as I understand it is to let go of goals and experience acceptance of all passing conditions. Striving for kensho and special experiences, and striving to change or improve the self, seem to be the antitheses of a shikantaza-based practice.
I can understand this philosophically and experientially, yet something also feels "wrong" about it to me. I find myself wondering, "What would a world in which people did not strive to change things for the better be like?" I find the practice of shikantaza extremely valuable, yet as a religiously minded person, I find I have to go somewhere outside of this school for other spiritual resources, as it is an entirely un-inspiring religion when it comes to social change and visions for a better world.
The one thing this school really seems to offer--the possibility of living a more peaceful life--leaves me a bit cold, and almost seems immoral to me at times; I think, "Shouldn't people feel driven to change their lives and change the world for the better? Shouldn't people not be at peace with the current state of the world? Shouldn't people plugged into Truth see that there's something wrong with this world and feel driven to work for a better, more just world?" Wouldn't a true person want to do more than just passively "desist from evil," but also want to actively realize Good? And in our modern world, couldn't we say that a life of quiet acceptance of "everyday life" is a form of evil, that in its passivity allows the world's evils to go on unchallenged? We cannot say any more that a person ceases from actively accomplishing evil by simply being a nice person who does not actively seek to harm others; given that most of us buy products or enjoy benefits from enterprises that are harmful and destructive, it seems our very existence is a sort of evil if we do not take up the call to do something more than just get by...
In 1967, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., said, "Now, I've chosen to preach about the war in Vietnam because I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal."
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Ever wake up feeling motivated to crush your goals only to be paralyzed by anxiety?
You pump yourself up in the morning with Tony Robbins motivational talks, then in comes anxiety like a wave, totally wiping out all your positive, can-do energy. Instead, you get that heavy feeling in your chest. Or you feel tension and anxiety between shoulder blades and random places like behind your knees. For me, I feel anxiety behind my eyes.
So what gives? How can you prepare for anxiety with no trigger? How can you harness all of that previous warm, fuzzy energy?
A friend once told me, learn to make friends with your fears. Rather than run from the thoughts that make you sick, acknowledge them. Like listening to a friend, try to understand what the root cause of the problem is. The goal is not to rid yourself of anxious thoughts – because let's be honest – we experience anxiety like we experience other emotions. It's about living alongside anxiety.
I know you're thinking, "How in the world do you live alongside it?"
I thought the same too. Anxiety can leave me totally depleted, with no energy to wake up, let alone attempt to solve the root problem. I'll admit, I've used anxiety over the counter meds a time or two just to restore a sense of normalcy. But that's not my go-to. What I really crave is the discipline and tools to master my thoughts so I can make the most of my day, my week, my month and my year. Because it's through healthy thoughts that we bring our desires to life.
So what helps anxiety besides medication? How can we naturally cultivate healthy thoughts? For me, it's meditation. Followed by a good buzz. No, not of alcohol, though that certainly takes off the edge. I mean caffeine.
First, I take a moment to breathe and connect with the present moment. No matter what is on my mind, I know I'm alive, and I have the power to create my life however I want it. I know that if I listen to my anxiety the way I listen to a friend who needs advice, I can find what the real problem is. And once I find it, I can get to work on solving it. That, my friend, is where the caffeine kicks in.Buspar For Anxiety What Does Pill Look Like
With an appreciation for life, an understanding of the problem, and with the energy to take it on, I know there's no way I can fail to a point of no return. As our friend Tony Robbins once said, "I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy." That's how I choose to look at and walk with the fear of failure brought on by my anxieties. Those moments are not for loss, rather they are building blocks for the life of my dreams. You too will be living above anxiety and enjoying the life of your dreams.


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"Compelling? Compelled to do what?"
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Editorial: Missing Stan the Man
We live in era where cheaters, bullies and less-than-admirable characters — Barry Bonds, Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, etc. — too often dominate the sports headlines. The more outrageous, the better the ratings, the higher the contract. It wasn't always so.
Baseball Hall of Famer Stan Musial was put to rest last weekend, gone at age 92. Though many may have forgotten him, the greatest St. Louis Cardinal ever remains among the first few names in many a statistical category. It wasn't just the numbers. He was a class act.
Forget for a second the unique, corkscrew batting stance; the seven batting titles; the three Most Valuable Player awards; the five home runs in one day's double-header; the number of hits ranking him behind only Pete Rose, Ty Cobb and Hank Aaron; the record 24 All-Star Game appearances. This page chooses to remember the quiet and quite-uncommon-for-the-time leadership and fundamental decency displayed when he was the only white player to approach the black players in an All-Star Game locker room where they were playing cards and say, "Deal me in." The guy who despite the pressure to do so would not go on strike in protest of Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier. The superstar never too big for his britches to memorize the name of a rookie, just called up. The one-of-a-kind who rarely struck out and was never ejected from a game.
Americans should remember the worker who with professionalism and dignity went about his business day after day, achieving a nearly unrivaled consistency — 1,815 hits at home, 1,815 hits on the road — and excellence. The businessman who had a successful second act — as a restaurateur — when his playing days were over. The down-to-earth fellow who greeted the statues — yes, plural — erected in his honor with almost embarrassed modesty. The family man who never left St. Louis and never sought the attention that ultimately came to him anyway, with decades passing before some of the above anecdotes became public knowledge.
When Musial received the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 2011, President Obama described him as "an icon untarnished, a beloved pillar of the community, a gentleman you'd want your kids to emulate." Sadly rare praise, that.
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Fair enough. Where have you gone, Stan the Man?
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MOSCOW (AP) -- A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring nearly 1,000 people.
The spectacle deeply frightened many Russians, with some elderly women declaring that the world was coming to an end.
The meteor - estimated to be about 10 tons - entered the Earth's atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 54,000 kph (33,000 mph) and shattered into pieces about 30-50 kilometers (18-32 miles) above the ground, the Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement.
Amateur video broadcast on Russian television showed an object speeding across the sky about 9:20 a.m. local time, just after sunrise, leaving a thick white contrail and an intense flash.
The meteor released several kilotons of energy above the Chelyabinsk region, the science academy said. The shock wave blew in an estimated 100,000 square meters (more than 1 million square feet) of glass, according to city officials.
"There was panic. People had no idea what was happening," said Sergey Hametov, a resident of Chelyabinsk, a city of 1 million about 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow.
"We saw a big burst of light, then went outside to see what it was and we heard a really loud, thundering sound," he told The Associated Press by telephone.
The meteor hit less than a day before Asteroid 2012DA14 is to make the closest recorded pass of an asteroid to the Earth - about 17,150 miles (28,000 kilometers). But the European Space Agency in a tweet said its experts had determined there was no connection - just cosmic coincidence.
The Interior Ministry said 985 people sought medical care after the shock wave and 44 of them were hospitalized. Most of the injuries were caused by flying glass, it said.
There was no immediate word on any deaths or anyone struck by space fragments.
Meteors typically cause sizeable sonic booms when they enter the atmosphere because they are traveling so much faster than the speed of sound. Injuries on the scale reported Friday, however, are extraordinarily rare.
"I went to see what that flash in the sky was about," recalled resident Marat Lobkovsky. "And then the window glass shattered, bouncing back on me. My beard was cut open, but not deep. They patched me up, it's OK now."
Another resident, Valya Kazakov, said some elderly women in his neighborhood started crying out that the world was ending.
Lessons had just started at Chelyabinsk schools when the meteor exploded, and officials said 204 schoolchildren were among those injured.
Yekaterina Melikhova, a high school student whose nose was bloody and whose upper lip was covered with a bandage, said she was in her geography class when they saw a bright light outside.
"After the flash, nothing happened for about three minutes. Then we rushed outdoors. I was not alone, I was there with Katya. The door was made of glass, a shock wave made it hit us," she said.
Russian television ran footage of athletes at a city sports arena who were showered by shards of glass from huge windows. Some of them were still bleeding.
City officials said 3,000 buildings in the city were damaged by the shock wave, including a zinc factory where part of the roof collapsed.
The vast implosion of glass windows exposed many residents to the bitter cold as temperatures in the city hovered around minus 9 Celsius (15.8 Fahrenheit).
The regional governor immediately urged any workers who can pane windows to rush to the area to help out.
Some fragments fell in a reservoir outside the town of Chebarkul, the regional governor's office said, according to the ITAR-Tass.
A six-meter-wide (20-foot-wide) crater was found in the same area, which could come from space fragments striking the ground, the news agency cited military spokesman Yaroslavl Roshchupkin as saying.
Small pieces of space debris - usually parts of comets or asteroids - that are on a collision course with the Earth are called meteoroids. They become meteors when they enter the Earth's atmosphere. Most meteors burn up in the atmosphere, but if they survive the frictional heating and strike the surface of the Earth they are called meteorites.
The site of Friday's spectacular show is about 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) west of Tunguska, which 1908 was the site of the largest recorded explosion of a space object plunging to Earth. That blast, attributed to a comet or asteroid fragment, is generally estimated to have been about 10 megatons; it leveled some 80 million trees.
Scientists believe that a far larger meteorite strike on what today is Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula may have been responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. According to that theory, the impact would have thrown up vast amounts of dust that blanketed the sky for decades and altered the climate on Earth
The panic and confusion that followed Friday's meteorite crash quickly gave way to Chelyabinsk residents' entrepreneurial instincts. Several people smashed in the windows of their houses in the hopes of pretending they were broken by the meteorite and receiving compensation, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Other quickly took to the Internet and put what they said were meteorite fragments up for sale.
The Russian-language hashtags for the meteorite shot into Twitter's top trends, and the country's lively blogosphere quickly reacted with black humor.
One of the most popular jokes was that the meteorite was supposed to fall Dec. 21 last year - when many believed the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world - but was delivered late by Russia's notoriously inefficient postal service.
Others joked that the meteorite was par for the course for Chelyabinsk, an industrial town long held to be one of the world's most polluted areas. The area around Chelyabinsk is also home to nuclear and chemical weapons disposal facilities.
Vladimir Chuprov of Greenpeace Russia noted that the area where the meteor exploded was 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the Mayak nuclear storage and disposal facility, which holds dozens of tons of weapons-grade plutonium. He said the Russian government has underestimated potential risks of the region.
A chemical weapons disposal facility at Shchuchye in the Chelyabinsk region contains some 6,000 tons (5,460 metric tons) of nerve agent including sarin and VX, accounting for about 14 percent of the chemical weapons that Russia is committed to destroy.
The dramatic events prompted an array of reactions from prominent Russians.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at an economic forum in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, said the meteor could be a symbol for the forum, showing that "not only the economy is vulnerable, but the whole planet."
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a nationalist leader noted for vehement statements, said "It's not meteors falling. It's the test of a new weapon by the Americans," the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said the incident showed the need for leading world powers to develop a system to intercept objects falling from space.
"At the moment, neither we nor the Americans have such technologies" to shoot down meteors or asteroids, he said, according to the Interfax news agency.


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chrisbirkinshaw where in any of those posts does it say follow me doesnt work??? they said ithe fiire remote doesnt use bluetooth.
Would you mind chilling out a bit? If it doesn't work reliably then to most people it would be fair to say it doesn't work at all.
Thanks for clearing that up totallymaxed, I find the walkthrough very helpful.I have 2 different bluetooth dongles, one is clearly much stronger then the other, maybe we can do a competition to find the worst bluetooth dongle available? Although I guess it would be hard to compare them. Another idea might be to get a cheap widely available one and "cripple" it a little, maybe (partially) wrapping it in aluminum foil would even be enough (surprise surprise, I just discovered that I'm out of foil ).
Great idea Zaerc! It might work... as the problem with every Bluetooth dongle we have ever tested is that they just out perform there stated specs by a massive margin. What's needed is a really badly designed one that has terrible range! Maybe some strategically place tin foil might achieve that! ;-)
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The Farr Side: Clarkson, Fun could score big at Grammys
Nominees for the 55th annual Grammy Awards were announced last week during a live telecast concert on CBS. Hosted by LL Cool J and Taylor Swift, nominees in several major categories were announced before an arena of music fans in Tennessee.
It was an awesome idea to announce the nominees in such grand fashion. The show also featured some of the year's biggest stars, making it even more exciting. I enjoyed it more than any award show this season, and nobody even won anything yet.
Props to my girl, Kelly Clarkson. Her name came up several times, including noms for the coveted Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)," Best Pop Album for "Stronger" and Best Pop Vocal Solo Performance for "Stronger."
Clarkson is already a two-time Grammy winner, but this year everything seemed to fall into place, personally and professionally (let's pretend "Duets" didn't happen).
Clarkson is up against some major competition in each of her prospective categories, including the band Fun. Fun's "We Are Young" goes head-to-head with "Stronger" for both Record and Song of the year honors. Fun's album, "Some Nights" is also nominated for Best Pop Album along with "Stronger" (Clarkson), "Overexposed" (Maroon 5), "The Truth About Love" (Pink), and "Ceremonials" (Florence + The Machine).
I think Fun is going to dominate, but Clarkson has the best chance for Best Pop Album.
Best New Artist is always a head-scratcher for me. It's too difficult to see an obvious winner anymore. Each year, nominees become even more diverse. Fun is up against Alabama Shakes, Hunter Hayes, The Lumineers and Frank Ocean. I can see reasons any of those could win, but it'll probably come down to Fun and The Lumineers. Fun has lived up to its name, and the group's songs seemed to capture a moment this year, resonating with listeners. I know the album did for me. Upset contender is Frank Ocean — the young hip-hop artist broke new ground and not necessarily with his music. He came out.
I was caught off-guard when Album of the Year nominees were announced. Those I expected to see I didn't, expect for maybe "Babel" by Mumford & Sons, and those that were nominated surprised me. "El Camino" (The Black Keys) totally slipped under the radar for me as did "Blunderbuss" (Jack White) and "Channel Orange" (Frank Ocean). "Some Nights" by Fun rounded out the category.
Fun, Jay-Z, Paul Auerbach from The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, and Kanye West are in a six-way tie for the most, but even bigger news was who was left out including Lionel Richie's album "Tuskegee" and Phillip Phillip's single "Home."
Justin Bieber's snub is no surprise. Folks, he's not good. The fact he's upset he was snubbed makes it even more amusing to me. Can someone please tell him that the Grammys are for real artists who have talent and that seventh graders don't have a say in them?
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Sports update: Phil Jackson 'comes home' as Knicks' president
NEW YORK — Phil Jackson is back in New York, providing the Knicks stability, championship-building ideas and a link to the franchise's best days.
Now they need him to get some good players.
Jackson was introduced Tuesday as team president of the Knicks, in the midst of another difficult season and with no easy path to a quick fix.
But Jackson has won here before, done plenty of it since and says a couple of years off have left him ready to take on what might be his toughest challenge, turning this dysfunctional franchise into a champion again.
Jackson was a member of the Knicks' title teams in 1970 and 1973, and they haven't won since. He went on to win 11 championships with the Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls.
This will be his first time as an executive and the Knicks say he will be in charge of all basketball decisions. Madison Square Garden chairman James Dolan said he "willingly and gratefully" is stepping back to give Jackson the power to make the changes.
"Phil has a vision for the Knicks that I know will put us on the path for success," Dolan said.
Steve Mills will remain general manager.
"I think that we have a teamwork situation here that's going to be really quite swift and capable of making some important changes as we move forward," Jackson said.
The Knicks announced the hiring in the lobby of Madison Square Garden, with a giant "Welcome Home Phil" sign overhead and racks of his old No. 18 jersey on sale.
He signed a five-year contract that reportedly will pay at least $12 million annually. After living in California for many years, Jackson said he would spend significant time in New York, starting with Wednesday's game against Indiana.
He's got big decisions coming up involving Carmelo Anthony and coach Mike Woodson.
It's the second reorganization in six months for the Knicks, who fired GM Glen Grunwald days before the start of training camp. Mills replaced him even though he had no previous experience running the basketball side.
The deal began to take shape at a holiday party hosted by a mutual friend of Jackson and Dolan. Though Jackson quickly declined interest in coaching, they agreed to keep talking.
It will be tough for Jackson to make big changes quickly in New York, where the Knicks face with the salary cap problems. Amare Stoudemire, Tyson Chandler and Andrea Bargnani will all be in the final year of expensive contracts, making them difficult to unload. And they traded their first-round pick to Denver in 2011 to acquire Anthony.
Jackson alluded to that, saying the Knicks "were going to have to go out and work the bushes for players this next year."
But he has a vision for how he wants to do it, a change from the Knicks' way of too frequently adding big-name players who don't fit any particular style.
Jackson said he won't insist that the Knicks run the triangle offense that worked so well for him with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, then Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal. But he made it clear he believes in the system's principles of passing, movement and teamwork.
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