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Retiring the IBOX..
It is obvious that as funny as Duct Tape IS, the IBOX I created is just too large to remain for expedient loading, so I am retiring the IBOX Duct Tape Links to this post and will leave it only as a link in the Hangout IBOX.
I didn't want this thread to be "ALL ABOUT DUCT TAPE", yet duct tape discussions, adaptions, applications will remain acceptable as points of conversation here! LOL!
BTW...I like WD40, almost equally as well!
Here is the original Duct Tape IBOX links...
General Duct Tape Uses!.....
Women and Duct Tape!.....
Men and Duct Tape!.....
Duct Tape FAILURES!.....
Duct Tape In The News!.....
Around the school:
The buck stopped here - Medicine Lodge, Kansas - Principal Mark Buck at Medicine Lodge Middle School challenged his students to read 400,000 pages before the end of the year. If they did, he would allow them to duct tape him to a wall. Each student got to put up one yard of duct tape for every 1000 pages he or she read. Obviously, they did their work!
Duct Tape in Equipodiatry...
Duct tape is applied horizontally so it contacts the block and the lower portion of the hoof wall. It is necessary to apply two or three strips of duct tape above the bulbs of the heel to hold the block securely in place. Strips of duct tape are also placed across the bottom of the block.
Reduce the number of gypsy moth caterpillars in your trees by putting up barrier bands before the caterpillars start to hatch in mid-May. Caterpillars crawling up the trees will mire down in the sticky material and die. Bands can keep caterpillars from migrating to other trees or from climbing back up if they fall off the tree (surprisingly common!).
Make barrier bands using duct tape and a waterproof, sticky material such as the tree goo Tanglefoot or even petroleum jelly. When the bark is dry, wrap duct tape around the tree, shiny side out, pressing the tape firmly into the bark cracks to prevent caterpillars from slipping under the bands. The tape should be wrapped a few inches wide and placed around the tree trunk at chest height -- about four feet above the ground.
Duct Tape as an ART FORM!.....
Duct Tape as A Theology!.....
The website that showed this picture seemed to relate Duct Tape to Marriage. I'll let the reader draw any personally necessary conclusions. LOL!
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North Korea and The Axis Of Evil !!!!!
After watching a superb show on Discovery Channel tonight about why Saddam Hussein is of such concern, it was trumped by my coming online and reading of this new report about North Korea.
It is shocking to read, and clearly reminiscent about the similar concerns over Saddam Hussein and further back in time Mao, Stalin, and Adolph Hitler!
The article was posted today on MSNBC.COM
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Death, terror in N. Korea gulag
Jan. 15 -- NBC's Lisa Myers reports on the horrific accounts emerging from North Korea's prison labor camps.
By Robert Windrem
MSNBC Jan. 15 ? In the far north of North Korea, in remote locations not far from the borders with China and Russia, a gulag not unlike the worst labor camps built by Mao and Stalin in the last century holds some 200,000 men, women and children accused of political crimes. A month-long investigation by NBC News, including interviews with former prisoners, guards and U.S. and South Korean officials, revealed the horrifying conditions these people must endure ? conditions that shock even those North Koreans accustomed to the near-famine conditions of Kim Jong Il's realm.
"IT'S ONE of the worst, if not the worst situation ? human rights abuse situation ? in the world today," said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., who held hearings on the camps last year. "There are very few places that could compete with the level of depravity, the harshness of this regime in North Korea toward its own people."
Satellite photos provided by DigitalGlobe confirm the existence of the camps, and interviews with those who have been there and with U.S. officials who study the North suggest Brownback's assessment may be conservative.
Among NBC News' findings:
At one camp, Camp 22 in Haengyong, some 50,000 prisoners toil each day in conditions that U.S. officials and former inmates say results in the death of 20 percent to 25 percent of the prison population every year.
Products made by prison laborers may wind up on U.S. store shelves, having been "washed" first through Chinese companies that serve as intermediaries.
Entire families, including grandchildren, are incarcerated for even the most bland political statements.
Forced abortions are carried out on pregnant women so that another generation of political dissidents will be "eradicated."
Inmates are used as human guinea pigs for testing biological and chemical agents, according to both former inmates and U.S. officials.
Efforts by MSNBC.com to reach North Korean officials were unsuccessful. Messages left at the office of North Korea's permanent representative to the United Nations went unanswered.
Eung Soo Han, a press officer at South Korea's U.N. consulate, said: "It is a very unfortunate situation, and our hearts go out to those who suffer. We hope North Korea will open up its country, and become more actively involved with the international community in order for the North Korean people to be lifted out of their difficult situation."
LABOR, DEATH, ABUSE
NBC's investigation revealed that North Korea's State Security Agency maintains a dozen political prisons and about 30 forced labor and labor education camps, mainly in remote areas. The worst are in the country's far Northeast. Some of them are gargantuan: At least two of the camps, Haengyong and Huaong, are larger in area than the District of Columbia, with Huaong being three times the size of the U.S. capital district.
Satellite photos provided by DigitalGlobe show several of the camps, including the notorious Haengyong, for the first time outside official circles. Plainly visible are acres upon acres of barracks, laid out in regimented military style. Surrounding each of them is 10-foot-high barbed-wire fencing along with land mines and man traps. There is even a battery of anti-aircraft guns to prevent a liberation by airborne troops. Satellite image of the barracks at Haengyong.
Ahn Myong Chol, a guard at the camp (which is sometimes known as Hoeryong) from 1987 through 1994, examined the satellite photos of Camp 22 for NBC News. They were taken in April, eight years after he left. But he says little has changed. He was able to pick out the family quarters for prisoners, the work areas, the propaganda buildings.
Looking at the imagery, Ahn noted what happened in each building:
"This is the detention center," he said. "If someone goes inside this building, in three months he will be dead or disabled for life. In this corner they decided about the executions, who to execute and whether to make it public.
"This is the Kim Il Sung institute, a movie house for officers. Here is watchdog training. And guard training ground."
Pointing to another spot, he said: "This is the garbage pond where the two kids were killed when guard kicked them in pond."
Another satellite photo shows a coal mine at the Chungbong camp where prisoners are worked to exhaustion in a giant pit.
"All of North Korea is a gulag," said one senior U.S. official, noting that as many as 2 million people have died of starvation while Kim has amassed the world's largest collection of Daffy Duck cartoons. "It's just that these people [in the camps] are treated the worst. No one knows for sure how many people are in the camps, but 200,000 is consistent with our best guess.
"We don't have a breakdown, but there are large numbers of both women and children."
BEYOND THE PALE
It is the widespread jailing of political prisoners' families that makes North Korea unique, according to human rights advocates.
Under a directive issued by Kim's father, North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung, three generations of a dissident's family can be jailed simply on the basis of a denunciation.
NBC News interviewed two former prisoners and a former guard about conditions in the camps. The three spent their time at different camps. Their litany of camp brutalities is unmatched anywhere in the world, say human rights activists.
"Listening to their stories, it's horrific," said David Hawk, a veteran human rights campaigner and a consultant for the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Hawk has interviewed many former prisoners in Seoul.
"It's hard to do more than one or two a day because they're just so painful to hear: horrific mistreatment - all sorts of suffering, beatings to death, executions."
Kang Chol-Hwan is now a journalist with Chosun Ilbo, South Korea's most important newspaper. His recent book, "The Aquariums of Pyongyang," is the first memoir of a North Korean political prisoner. For nearly a decade, he was imprisoned because his grandfather had made complimentary statements about Japanese capitalism. He was a 9-year-old when he arrived at the Yodok camp. His grandfather was never seen again, and prison conditions killed his father.
"When I was 10 years old," Kang recalled, "We were put to work digging clay and constructing a building. And there were dozens of kids, and while digging the ground, it collapsed. And they died. And the bodies were crushed flat. And they buried the kids secretly, without showing their parents, even though the parents came."
The system appears to draw no distinction between those accused of the crime and their family members.
Soon Ok Lee, imprisoned for seven years at a camp near Kaechon in Pyungbuk province, described how the female relatives of male prisoners were treated.
The Korean Peninsula MSNBC Interactive?The arms balance in the world's most militarized region.
"I was in prison from 1987 till January 1993," she told NBC News in Seoul, where she now lives. "[The women] were forced to abort their children. They put salty water into the pregnant women's womb with a large syringe, in order to kill the baby even when the woman was 8 months or 9 months pregnant.
"And then, from time to time there a living infant is delivered. And then if someone delivers a live infant, then the guards kick the bloody baby and kill it. And I saw an infant who was crying with pain. I have to express this in words, that I witnessed such an inhumane hell."
TESTING ON HUMANS
Soon also spoke about the use of prisoners as guinea pigs, which a senior U.S. official describes as "very plausible. We have heard similar reports."
"I saw so many poor victims," she said. "Hundreds of people became victims of biochemical testing. I was imprisoned in 1987 and during the years of 1988 through '93, when I was released, I saw the research supervisors ? they were enjoying the effect of biochemical weapons, effective beyond their expectations ? they were saying they were successful."
She tearfully described how in one instance about 50 inmates were taken to an auditorium and given a piece of boiled cabbage to eat. Within a half hour, they began vomiting blood and quickly died. A shot of the enormous Chunbong camp from space.
"I saw that in 20 or 30 minutes they died like this in that place. Looking at that scene, I lost my mind. Was this reality or a nightmare? And then I screamed and was sent out of the auditorium."
Prison guard Ahn's memories are, like the others', nothing short of gruesome. Every day, he said there were beatings and deaths.
"I heard many times that eyeballs were taken out by beating," he recalled. "And I saw that by beating the person the muscle was damaged and the bone was exposed, outside, and they put salt on the wounded part. At the beginning I was frightened when I witnessed it, but it was repeated again and again, so my feelings were paralyzed."
Moreover, said Ahn, beating and killing prisoners was not only tolerated, it was encouraged and even rewarded.
"They trained me not to treat the prisoners as human beings. If someone is against socialism, if someone tries to escape from prison, then kill him," Ahn said. "If there's a record of killing any escapee then the guard will be entitled to study in the college. Because of that some guards kill innocent people."
President Bush told author and Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward last year that he was well aware of the camps and the atrocities. That, officials say, partly explains why Bush insisted on North Korea's inclusion in the "axis of evil" in his 2002 State of the Union address.
"I loathe Kim Jong Il," Bush told Woodward during an interview for the author's book "Bush at War." "I've got a visceral reaction to this guy because he is starving his people. And I have seen intelligence of these prison camps ? they're huge ? that he uses to break up families and to torture people."
Brownback, a senator with a reputation as a human rights advocate, thinks that the prison camps and abuses have for too long taken a back seat to nuclear arms and other Korean issues.
"It seems that what happened is that there got to be a complex set of issues, and people said, 'Well OK, it's about our relationship with China, it's about the Korean Peninsula, it's about this militaristic regime in North Korea that we don't want to press too much because they may march across the border into South Korea."
Brownback says the North's nuclear program, its missile tests and generally unpredictable behavior has blurred a critical issue:
"I think people just got paralyzed to really put a focus on the human face of this suffering," he said.
Lisa Myers, Rich Gardella and Judy Augsberger of NBC News and Michael Moran of MSNBC.com contributed to this report.
Does anyone have any comments about Short Selling and how it affects the US Economy?
GeneMax battles short sellers
Says it's target of bold campaign
By Peter Kennedy, Vancouver
John Saunders, Toronto
Globe & Mail, Report on Business
Monday, November 18, 2002 -- It may be a bear rout, a short squeeze, a cornered market, a slick promotion or just a bunch of naked short sellers caught with their pants down, getting what they deserve.
Whatever it is, it pushed the stock market value of GeneMax Corp., a revenue-free hopeful in the anticancer field, as high as $312-million (U.S.) last week, with the battle between longs and shorts far from over.
GeneMax is an attempt to commercialize University of British Columbia drug research, folded into a Howe Street stock promotion and served up in a Nevada-registered shell. Its offices are in the border town of Blaine, Wash., 50 kilometres down Highway 99 from Vancouver.
Its stock, GMXX, trades on the OTC Bulletin Board, a lightly supervised U.S. over-the-counter market. It closed Friday at $13.01, down from an intraday high of $20.40 Thursday, but up from as little as $3.50 in July.
As a scientific venture, GeneMax boasts a stellar cast, including UBC microbiologist Wilfred Jefferies and former QLT Inc. president Julia Levy, chairwoman. As a stock, it bears the imprint of Vancouver promoter Brent Pierce, whose activities in British Columbia are restricted by a 15-year trading suspension imposed on him by the B.C. Securities Commission in 1993.
In one sense, it is a promoter's dream. There is just a sliver of free-trading stock, which means that any buying pressure has a powerful effect on the price.
More than 98 per cent of GeneMax's 15 million shares are tied up by pooling agreements or other trading restrictions.
It is also a magnet for short sellers -- people who bet against companies and their stocks -- because, despite promising technology, it faces many regulatory hurdles before it learns whether it has a saleable product.
By its own account, GeneMax is the target of one of the boldest shorting campaigns on record. It estimates that at least 1½ times its tiny tradeable float has been shorted into the market, weighing down the share price. It does not name the short sellers (there is no easy way to identify them) but accuses brokerage firms of abetting them in what it calls an illegal manipulation. The brokerage firms deny these allegations.
Through lawsuits it has filed against brokers on both sides of the border, GeneMax has written a new chapter in a theory that has raged through Internet chat rooms since the tech-stock bubble burst two years ago.
The topic is naked short selling, a practice said to have crushed countless companies and erased billions in market value. In the extreme form of the theory, faceless syndicates of shorts are blamed for much of the market's collapse. Canada is assigned special blame because Canadian short-selling rules are looser than those in the U.S., although the U.S. rules are by no means strict (see box).
Technically, a naked short is an ordinary speculative short seller, as distinct from a covered short who, for example, owns a convertible bond that could be used to obtain the shares being sold short.
The conspiracy theorists tend to use naked short to mean people who short without limit, without regard to market rules and with no plan to borrow or deliver stock until the price has been pounded to oblivion.
Along with a few other U.S. companies, GeneMax has opted out of the brokerage industry's electronic book-entry system and now demands paper certificates for changes of share ownership. The plan is to squeeze the shorts, and it seems to be working, if only by spreading the idea that the share price has been artificially depressed by short selling and the tables are being turned.
Orchestrating this effort Investor Communications International Inc., which plays multiple roles in the GeneMax story as part owner, communications adviser and midwife in the deal that took the company public this past summer through a share swap with a moribund Nevada software maker. ICI and GeneMax have their headquarters in the same suite of offices in Blaine.
Mr. Pierce enters the picture through ICI, even if his exact role is unclear. His B.C. trading ban, a matter unrelated to ICI or GeneMax, was imposed after he acknowledged that some of the money raised in an initial share offering by a company called Bu-Max Gold Corp. was diverted to a private company he controlled and applied to his benefit.
He signed a document 2½ years ago filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission listing himself as ICI's sole shareholder. The firm recently sent a letter to newspapers suggesting that this is no longer true, but it did not reveal the current ownership. ICI officials did not respond to repeated phone calls last week.
GeneMax president Ronald Handford understands he is dealing with Mr. Pierce. "We think he is doing a very good job," Mr. Handford, a former banker and mining-exploration company president, said in Vancouver. He stressed that although ICI handles "the markets and public awareness side of things," GeneMax is in charge of its own destiny.
Short sellers hope prices drop
Short sellers aim to buy low and sell high, but not in that order. They sell shares they don't own now (they are short of these shares) in hopes of buying them cheaper later.
They may fill the gap by borrowing shares to make delivery, but sometimes they simply stall, exploiting quirks in a trading system that has largely replaced paper certificates with electronic book entries. When the system catches up to them and forces them to buy or borrow stock, they can always short some more.
Either way, a short sale creates what amounts to a pretend share. If the short seller borrows a share to make delivery, there are two people who think they own it: the buyer and the person whose share was borrowed.
Neither is likely to be aware of that fact. Standard customer agreements give brokers carte blanche to earn fees by lending out shares held in margin accounts, meaning the accounts of clients who buy securities partly on credit.
In a heavily shorted stock, the short position can grow to equal or exceed the number of margined shares available for borrowing. Persistent short selling tends to depress market prices, sometimes to zero.
None of this is necessarily illegal. The basic rule in Canada is that every short sale must be declared as such. The U.S. rule goes further, requiring players to make an "affirmative determination" that stock is available for borrowing at the time of the sale.
In neither country is it a crime to fail to deliver promptly on the settlement date, three business day later. The U.S. rule makes it hard for Americans to keep shorting an impossible-to-borrow stock. Canadians face no such restriction, although shorting a stock in tight supply is particularly risky.
When short sellers are wrong and prices rise, their losses can be almost unlimited. At some point, they must buy their way out at whatever price the market demands.
Staff
C'mon People! This whole board is NOT supposed to be all about DUCT TAPE! (although the subject in itself could create an entire encyclopedia!) LOL!
Here is a cut and paste of something really funny, although it is IN CAPS, and I am way too lazy tonight to even attempt to retype it...
Hope you all enjoy...
(.....and maybe post some "funnies" of your own here?)
ARTHUR DAVIDSON, INVENTOR OF THE HARLEY DAVIDSON MOTORCYCLE CORPORATION, DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN.
AT THE GATES, ST. PETER TOLD ARTHUR, "SINCE YOU'VE BEEN SUCH A GOOD MAN AND YOUR MOTORCYCLES HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD, YOUR REWARD IS, YOU CAN HANG OUT WITH ANYONE YOU WANT IN HEAVEN."
ARTHUR THOUGHT ABOUT IT FOR A MINUTE AND THEN SAID, "I WANT TO HANG OUT WITH GOD."
ARTHUR THEN ASKED GOD " HEY, AREN'T YOU THE INVENTOR OF WOMAN?" GOD SAID, "AH, YES."
"WELL," SAID ARTHUR, "PROFESSIONAL TO PROFESSIONAL, YOU HAVE SOME MAJOR DESIGN FLAWS IN YOUR INVENTION:
1. THERE'S TOO MUCH INCONSISTENCY IN THE FRONT-END PROTRUSION.
2. IT CHATTERS CONSTANTLY AT HIGH SPEEDS.
3. MOST OF THE REAR ENDS ARE TOO SOFT AND WOBBLE TOO MUCH.
4. THE INTAKE IS PLACED WAY TO CLOSE TO THE EXHAUST.
5. THE MAINTENANCE COSTS ARE OUTRAGEOUS."
"HMMM, YOU MAY HAVE SOME GOOD POINTS THERE," REPLIED GOD, "HOLD ON."
SO GOD WENT TO HIS CELESTIAL SUPER COMPUTER, TYPED IN A FEW WORDS, AND WAITED FOR THE RESULTS.
THE COMPUTER PRINTED OUT A SLIP OF PAPER AND GOD READ IT.
"WELL, IT MAY BE TRUE THAT MY INVENTION IS FLAWED," GOD SAID TO ARTHUR, "BUT ACCORDING TO THESE NUMBERS,.............
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Duct Tape in the year 3500....
I now take you on a journey 1500 years into the future, where a "time capsule" has been located and future archaeologists analyze the contents of the capsule, including an artifact we know as Duct Tape that they refer to as AstroDuck! LOL!
Enjoy!
http://www.shaka.com/~johnboy/capsule/index/timecap.htm
LOL! OK! Relax! HAHAHAHAHAHA! I love it!
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You need to choose FIVE from the list, and either Private Message your choices to me here at IHUB, or email them to me at dpb5@webtv.net! Shhhhhhhhhhhhh! LOL!
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I will add a PayPal option sometime next week!
WHY AM I DOING THIS?
Why not? As you can see on the website, many others are doing the same thing, so why not me?
Even if you do not agree with contributing, send the link out to some of your friends and family. Who knows what may happen???!!???
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And so we see Duct Tape take a limelight.
From a worthless piece of string and glue to Hollywood.
Gotta LOVE DuctTape!
OK Gang!
Keep the Duct Tape reports coming!
I am sure that others love to see them!
But...
As I stated in the IBOX "The Hangout" was designed to be a place to talk about anything and everything of interest to users that are NON STOCK related.
So, I offer the following...
Being a 'sci fi buff', I often find myself surfing weird things that others may not normally surf. Tonight's search took me to a website story that I link below...
It's a website story based on a concept that our Planet Earth is HOLLOW. The link is a fascinating story about a lad and his father who journeyed INSIDE the earth via sailboat ALMOST 200 YEARS AGO and found some amazing things on their journey...
TWELVE FOOT TALL PEACEFUL MEN!
40 FOOT TALL ELEPHANTS!
...and more....much more....
Just wanted to share this with you folks and get some commentary. Let me know what you think about this story...
http://www.ourhollowearth.com/SmokyGod.htm
Duct tape focus of company's songwriting contest
By RACHAEL SERAVALLI
October 03, 2002
It's difficult to know the virtues of duct tape without wanting to sing a song about them.
That's what organizers of a songwriting contest about duct tape are hoping.
Henkel Consumer Adhesives, the sponsor of the contest and manufacturer of Duck brand duct tape in Avon, Ohio, is hoping to attract original song entries from across the United States and Canada.
The company's first songwriting contest, which is slated to be an annual occurrence, is the latest in a string of contests the company has sponsored. They include contests for the best prom outfits made from duct tape, the best pictures of people using duct tape during their travels and the best uses of duct tape on a car, both inside and out.
Theresa Brixius, communications manager for the company, said the contests developed from what people were already doing with the versatile tape.
"We had garage bands that used our tape for so many things that eventually they wanted us to sponsor them, and of course, we couldn't do that for everyone," she said.
So Brixius said they developed the contests to give people a fun way to show how creative they could be with the tape.
Duct tape comes with no instructions, she said, so the uses for it are virtually endless.
"We like to say that the tape can be torn by hand but is still strong enough to pull a car from a ditch," she said.
The plans for the winning song are not yet clear, but it will probably be used at corporate events and as an example for future contests, she said.
So far, there are no plans to use the song in a commercial.
"Duct tape is a product that people don't want to pay a lot of money for," she said. "At the same time, it's a fairly expensive product to manufacture so our margin of profit is pretty small, certainly not enough to justify the expense of a television commercial."
Duct tape, which is made from strips of fabric coated with adhesive on one side and a waterproof coating on the other, has a history that started back in 1942. Originally green in color, it was used during World War II to seal cases of ammunition and keep them dry, according to the contest Web site.
After the war, it quickly became evident duct tape had uses going far beyond its initial purpose, and the tape quickly became a product many households dared not be without. The manufacturers also changed the color from green to the silver most people know today.
Following the tape's patriotic tradition, the company sponsored the building of an American flag the size of an NBA basketball court by professional duct tape sculptor Todd Scott. The flag, weighing 500 pounds and using 13 miles of tape, was unveiled in New York City earlier this year.
But most uses for the tape aren't nearly as grand in scope and can even be considered fashionable.
Michelle Heffner, manager of the company's Web site, said, "I once saw a teen-ager wearing super-wide bellbottoms with a decorative strip of duct tape along the bottom of each pant leg. You could tell it had been washed over and over and that the tape had just become part of the outfit."
Heffner's not quite sure why someone would want to write a song about duct tape but speculated it was the tape's versatility that had made it so popular.
"People used to send us samples all the time of things they have made: wallets, guitar straps, you name it. It's like you can't screw up something made with duct tape," Heffner said.
All song entries will be posted on the contest's Web site, www.ducktapeclub.com. Criteria for choosing the best song include musical skill, originality of lyrics and references to duct tape in the lyrics.
Thanks! em
Ron 
HOLY COWABUNGA DUDE!
Congratzzzzzzzzz Grandpa!
Wooohooooooooooooo!
Where are the ceeeegars?
(I even got a nice unplanned GRUB of Post 500 on this board out of this! THANKS!)
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