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Everyone is dysfunctional to some extend
Another Foleyism?
the iHub business model utilizes free "volunteer" labor to maintain the boreds.
Yawn. Yeah.
would the first ones' to know be guilty of potential endagerment?
A Foleyism. Guilty of possibly sticking it to 'em?
Are you turning a new leaf?
Ah, now you've changed your mind with that IF qualifier. Well, guess you're right. No consequences for anyone IF you can't get 'em all. Wait a minute, can I use that defense for getting stopped for speeding? Gee officer, you didn't stop the guy in front of me too. He was going even faster.
Grub set-up.
I have gotten it on my home puter when I have my Norton turned on
How Foleyesque.
You almost sound like you've changed your mind...#msg-13692631
anybody that knew about it and HELD it for political gain should be punished to the fullest extent of the law
That would include Republicans, correct?
This can't be an oops...
Mark Foley certainly wants to get this incident behind him and start over on a new page.
castro rule is dictationship for over 50 years
Say that again?
RR, this is to follow up on Drudge's allegation of a prank.
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Three More Former Pages Accuse Foley of Online Sexual Approaches
October 05, 2006 5:20 PM
Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz & Maddy Sauer Report:
Three more former congressional pages have come forward to reveal what they call "sexual approaches" over the Internet from former Congressman Mark Foley.
The pages served in the classes of 1998, 2000 and 2002. They independently approached ABC News after the Foley resignation through the Brian Ross & the Investigative Team's tip line on ABCNews.com. None wanted their names used because of the sensitive nature of the communications.
"I was seventeen years old and just returned to [my home state] when Foley began to e-mail me, asking if I had ever seen my page roommates naked and how big their penises were," said the page in the 2002 class.
The former page also said Foley told him that if he happened to be in Washington, D.C., he could stay at Foley's home if he "would engage in oral sex" with Foley.
The page told ABC News he was interviewed this week by FBI agents who had a six-page list of questions about Foley and the exchanges.
The second page who talked with ABC News, a graduate of the 2000 page class, says Foley actually visited the old page dorm and offered rides to events in his BMW.
"His e-mails developed into sexually explicit conversations, and he asked me for photographs of my erect penis," the former page said.
The page said Foley maintained e-mail contact with him even after he started college and arranged a sexual liaison after the page had turned 18.
The third page interviewed by ABC News, a graduate of the 1998 page class, said Foley's instant messages began while he was a senior in high school.
"Foley would say he was sitting in his boxers and ask what I was wearing," the page said.
"It became more weird, and I stopped responding," the page said.
All three pages described similar instant message and e-mail patterns, with remarkably similar escalations of provocative questions.
"He didn't want to talk about politics," the page said. "He wanted to talk about sex or my penis," the page said.
The three new verbal accounts are in addition to two sets of sexually explicit instant messages provided to ABC News by former pages.
An online story on the Drudge Report Thursday claimed one set of the sexually explicit instant messages obtained by ABC News was part of a "prank" on the part of the former page, who reportedly says he goaded the congressman into writing the messages.
"This was no prank," said one of the three former pages who talked to ABC News today about his experience with the congressman.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/three_more_form.html
Scandle after scandle after scandle after scandle
for decades these scandals go on and on and on..
Geez, everybody knows the plural is "scandles".
i fully support our military AND their assigned mission - whatever it is.
Ig Nobel prizes hail 'digital rectal massage'
00:30 06 October 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Jeff Hecht
"I have always hoped to win a real Nobel prize for medicine," Francis Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine told New Scientist. Nevertheless, he settled for the Ig Nobel prize in medicine instead, handed out along with nine other Ig Nobel prizes in a Thursday evening ceremony at Harvard University in Massachusetts, US.
It might be some consolation to note that a real Nobel prize winner was pushing a broom on stage to sweep away the paper airplanes traditionally thrown by the audience. The Annals of Improbable Research, which produces the Ig Nobel ceremony, points out that the 10 years that Harvard physicist Roy Glauber has spent sweeping the stage did not affect his selection as a physics laureate in 2005.
Fesmire, a specialist in emergency medicine and cardiology, probably did not have a real Nobel in mind when he published "Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage" in Annals of Emergency Medicine (vol 17, p 872). He was, it transpires, attempting to help a man who walked into the emergency room after hiccuping for 72 hours at up to 30 times a minute.
Heart stopper
Runaway electrical impulses in the vagus nerve cause intractable hiccups, so Fesmire attempted to block them by stimulating the nerve. Gagging, tongue pulling, sinus massage and pressing the eyeball to stimulate the vagus all failed to stop the hiccups. Then he remembered reading about a case in which digital rectal massage – inserting a finger into a patient’s anus – had slowed a racing heartbeat, an effect similar to runaway hiccups.
"It worked, and the rest is history," he says. He has not needed to go that far again for other patients, but Majed Odeh of Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, did a few years later and wrote a paper with the same title that earned him a share of the Ig Nobel.
However, Fesmire will not be trying it again. In researching his Ig Nobel acceptance speech, he told New Scientist that he found a treatment sure to be more popular with hiccup patients. "An orgasm results in incredible stimulation of the vagus nerve. From now on, I will be recommending sex – culminating with orgasm – as the cure-all for intractable hiccups."
Eye-popping bird brain
Not any bird brain can scoop an Ig Nobel prize, but studying bird brains earned the ornithology prize for the late Philip May at the University of California at Los Angeles and Ivan Schwab of the University of California at Davis, both in the US. May wondered why the pileated woodpecker did not get concussed while pounding its beak into trees up to 12,000 times a day.
He found the bird had evolved a thick skull of spongy bone which held its contents tightly in place, like foam packing material. The birds also evolved their own versions of seat belts. A millisecond before the bird's beak hits the wood, the nictitating membrane over its eyes tightens to keep them from popping out on impact.
Schwab suggests woodpeckers may have evolved small brains to make them more impact resistant, but admits that birds with little brainpower may have been the ones most likely to try head-butting trees in the first place.
Screeeeeeeeeech
The acoustics prize honoured research into another of those timeless questions, why do fingernails screeching on a blackboard send chills down the spine of virtually everyone who hears the sound?
Volunteers rated the sound of a three-pronged garden rake on slate top of the annoyance scale, followed by metal on metal and Styrofoam rubbing against itself, says Randolph Blake, now at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, US.
His experiments showed the frequencies in the middle of the audio range were the ones that drove people up the wall. Blake says chimpanzee warning cries "are remarkably similar to fingernails on a chalkboard". It is possible our reactions are instinctive, hearkening back to warning signals screeched by our pre-human ancestors when they spotted a sabre-tooth on the prowl, he suggests.
Blake shares the prize with former colleagues Lynn Halpern and James Hillenbrand.
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http://improbable.com/ig/
I'm aware of a private school in my area that got 100K for CCTV--from Homeland Security. Go figure.
Yeah, I know Matt's been doing it for years. Wait until you see his new premium feature "Non-disclosure".
So warrantless searches can get to these files?
She's very athletic.
'Monster' fossil find in Arctic
By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News
Norwegian scientists have discovered a "treasure trove" of fossils belonging to giant sea reptiles that roamed the seas at the time of the dinosaurs.
The 150 million-year-old fossils were uncovered on the Arctic island chain of Svalbard - about halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole.
The finds belong to two groups of extinct marine reptiles - the plesiosaurs and the ichthyosaurs.
One skeleton has been nicknamed The Monster because of its enormous size.
These animals were the top predators living in what was then a relatively cool, deep sea.
These sites are very unusual. To find that many individuals is a remarkable thing - that's a bonanza
Dave Martill, University of Portsmouth
Palaeontologists from the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum discovered the fossils during fieldwork in a remote part of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago.
Jorn Harald Hurum, co-director of the dig, said he was taken aback by the sheer density of fossil remains in one area.
"You can't walk for more than 100m without finding a skeleton. That's amazing anywhere in the world," he told BBC News.
Dr Dave Martill, a palaeontologist at the University of Portsmouth commented: "These sites are very unusual. To find that many individuals is a remarkable thing - that's a bonanza."
Ichthyosaurs bore a passing resemblance to modern dolphins, but they used an upright tail fin to propel themselves through the water.
Plesiosaurs are said to resemble descriptions of Scotland's mythical Loch Ness monster. They used two sets of powerful flippers for swimming and came in two varieties - one with a small head and very long neck, and another with a large head and short neck.
The short-necked varieties are known as pliosaurs.
The discovery of a gigantic pliosaur, nicknamed The Monster, was one of the most remarkable discoveries of the expedition.
Its skeleton has dinner-plate-sized neck vertebrae, and the lower jaw has teeth as big as bananas.
Tooth in the neck
The skeleton is not yet fully excavated, but its skull is about 3m long, suggesting the body could be more than 8m from the tip of its nose to its tail.
"What's amazing here is that it looks like we have a complete skeleton. No other complete pliosaur skeletons are known anywhere in the world," said Dr Hurum.
The researchers even found evidence of an attack on one of the creatures. An ichthyosaur tooth is embedded in a neck vertebra from one plesiosaur belonging to the genus Kimmerosaurus .
The fossil hoard comprises 21 long-necked plesiosaurs, six ichthyosaurs and one short-necked plesiosaur. The bones were unearthed in fine-grained sedimentary rock called black shale.
"Everything we're finding is articulated. It's not single bones here and there, and bits and pieces - these are complete skeletons," said Dr Hurum.
After death, the carcasses came to rest in mud at the bottom of the deep ocean, where little or no oxygen was present.
Dr Hurum said an unusual chemistry of the mud could have been responsible for the remarkable preservation of the specimens: "Something happened with the chemistry that's really good for bone preservation. Some skeletons are pale white even though they're in black shale - they look like roadkill."
The marine reptiles found in the Norwegian archipelago are very similar to ones known from southern England. Dr Hurum said the animals could have been living in the same ocean and he now plans to compare the Arctic finds with those from Britain.
The Svalbard excavation was led by Dr Hurum and Hans Arne Nakrem, also of Oslo's Natural History Museum. The museum plans to return to the field site in the summer of 2007 to resume excavations.
Paul.Rincon-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/5403570.stm
... I just got back from running my mother home.
I have enjoyed every state I have been lucky enough to travel; even those some considered to be vast wastelands took me aback with their displays majesty and beauty, reminding me with their greatness just how significant we humans are in comparison to the lifetime of the Earth and the vastness beyond our solar system.
Universal hubris?
I don't know how AOL works, but it's possible the messages are saved in a "hidden" file on your computer. I'm sure the FBI will be really digging into Foley's computers' hard drives.
Worse, the service provider will have copies on their servers. Even all your old AOL IM is potentially retrievable. Scary stuff, eh?
Remember too, the pages would have these files on their own computers, and likely even made copies of them.
Ugh.
You sure you want them saved? Look what happened to Foley.
Kidding aside, just like any e-mail file, or so I'm told.
I'm sure you are absolutely correct, but for myself, I'll follow Hastert:
Hastert hangs on in Republican scandal
Thursday 05 October 2006, 23:05 Makka Time, 20:05 GMT
Hastert hangs on in Republican scandal
Hastert is under pressure ahead of congressional elections
The leader of the US house of representatives has taken responsibility for the unfolding Republican sex scandal, as an ethics panel announced an investigation into the handling of the situation. [snipped]
You can read the rest here:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/524C9DEB-D760-4054-B107-CEA8085C052D.htm
Hmmm, check that source -- must be a Democrat plot.
Other posters crack wise in my direction...
Bet you've done that.
when everything is said and done there to poop to read...
Sometimes I read without doing that.
I'm working on my Associate of Implied Science degree...
A.A. in Creationism?
If this was a prank, do you honestly think Foley would have resigned so quickly and not defended himself?
Pardon me, but just when did you take over ownership of this board? Does being an ASSISTANT give you the right to make personal attacks? And why would you intrude into a conversation between me and the board MODERATOR? HE answered my question. Your response, IMO, is merely to provoke a fight. Please just put me on IGNORE. Thanks.
LOL. That's a first for the board.
Would this be considered Bush-bashing?
I'm seriously scared as to who is going to be our next president. I’m watching and hoping somebody steps up to the plate with some class, some back bone, a good knowledge of world history and the ability to communicate without a shit eating grin.
Hav, do you know IHUB is going to be sued soon, mr.Harris is working on it right now..It will be a site to see.
But iHub already is a site to see.
Not to worry about the year 2100. Worry about 2036.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3313/01.html
Green-Conscious GE Develops Hybrid Lightbulb
October 2, 2006 | Issue 42•40
FAIRFIELD, CT—One year after pledging to develop more energy-efficient products, General Electric Co. unveiled a product it is calling its most eco-friendly lighting source to date: the first-ever gasoline-electric hybrid lightbulb.
"With the price of gas escalating as its supply dwindles, now is the perfect time to introduce innovative lighting technology that only relies on this fast-depleting, nonrenewable resource for a portion of its power," GE chairman Jeff Immelt said in a statement released Monday.
If the Wisebulb, which will be available in stores by November for the retail price of $89.99, is used only for recommended short-term, dim, and frequent on-and-off lighting, it could eliminate nearly 80 percent of global-warming pollution that would be caused by using solely gas-powered lightbulbs, GE spokesman Brian Tormey said.
"A full tank of gas can illuminate a hybrid bulb for an average of two weeks," Tormey said. "Once the 1.5-gallon tank is empty, all customers have to do is drive their lightbulb to the gas station and fill it up for only about $6."
The hybrid bulb's structure—slightly more complex than the older filament-and-wire models—features a small, efficient four-cylinder internal-combustion engine at the base of the bulb that powers an electric generator attached to the glass mount. The generator produces electricity that is then fed to the electric motor, which ignites a small flame inside the glass casing. Any excess electricity is used to charge the bulb's 300-volt lead-acid battery, which at full capacity is capable of independently lighting a 60-watt bulb for up to 30 minutes.
In order to prevent the bulb from overheating, carbon dioxide emitted from the flame will be released through the bulb's two-centimeter exhaust pipe.
In addition to regular fill-ups, Tormey added that twice-annual servicing of the bulb, which can include battery replacement and engine tune-up, will help ensure years of uninterrupted performance.
GE is already at work on enhancing the Wisebulb's features, including developing a larger 12-cylinder hybrid lightbulb for Americans who crave brighter, extended, higher-wattage illumination on a more frequent basis. Tormey also said that a special, lower-emission version with a catalytic converter, which uses additional energy to chemically convert a small percentage of the bulb's pollutants into harmless compounds, will also be made available, though consumers will be required to refill its gas tank at least twice daily.
By 2010, GE plans to convert all its home consumer products to the hybrid-energy model.
"Our Ecomagination division is fully committed to helping save the environment and preserve our remaining gas resources," Immelt said. "If the Wisebulb proves successful, it will pave the way for future advances such as the hybrid toaster, the diesel-electric vacuum cleaner, and the lower-emission, cleaner-burning dishwasher engine."
California residents who participated in a test run of the Wisebulb this summer are eager to make the permanent switch over to hybrid lighting, saying the extra expenses are "more than worth it."
"The extra $80 I spend on gas every week is a small price to pay to know that I'm conserving this valuable resource and helping save the environment," said Bakersfield, CA resident Marcia Epstein, who has also recently purchased a GE-brand hybrid air purifier to reduce the level of harmful toxins in her home.
"Plus, I'll save a few dollars on my electricity bill every month," Epstein added.
In its continuing mission to provide safe, clean, green-friendly products for Americans, GE is also investing heavily in research and development of additional alternative energy technology, including ethanol-fueled windmills, hydro-gas solar panels, and a lightbulb that would run entirely on electricity.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53554
Over-used keyboard?
It's just not worth dredging my reputation and online credibility ...
Reputation and credibility not worth dredging? Low self-esteem?
All sexual peverted behavior is wrong.I sure don't want to have to put a "cork in it" out in public to be safe everywhere I go.
Oopsie.
Guess the cork is used only for safety at home.
All sexual peverted behavior is wrong.I sure don't want to have to put a "cork in it" out in public to be safe everywhere I go.
So this is something you do in private?
All sexual peverted behavior is wrong.
What's your feeling on fetishes?
From what I sense here, 'organizational defensive mechanism' have kicked in for many posters which, have caused them to react defensively toward my original question, that being; “what constitutes a personal attack?".
A "personal attack" is defined in the User Agreement. See #msg-3760203
This seems like the logical place to have that discussion. If you can recommend a better venue, I would be happy to explore it.
Because Matt wrote the User Agreement, he's the one to change it. At this point, why not make your case to him privately? He doesn't seem interested in engaging you further on this board.
If you sense "organizational defensive mechanism" perhaps it is because you are not only beating a dead horse, but are continuing to drag it around the corral.
BTW, you can delete posts for other than "personal attack". Spend some time familiarizing yourself with the User Agreement. It is clear that you have not done that yet.
Good luck.