TOTAL RECALL
This is cool. The technology, called backscatter, has been around for several years but has not been widely used in the U.S. as an 
anti-terrorism tool because of privacy concerns. It’s basically like the full body scanner in the movie “Total Recall.” I remember watching that thinking this would be awesome in reality. Looks like its going to be a reality (here is the article.) They are going to install one of these in the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Az. It will be up and running by Christmas. The top picture is from teh 1990 film "Total Recall." The bottom picture is from the Backscatter machine.
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R.I.P. Issac
World track cycling champion Issac Galvez died Saturday night after crashing against the railing during the next-to-last day of the Madison competition, event organizer Rob Discart said. Galvez, who raced for the Caisse d'Epargne team, was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital, Discart told VRT radio (full story.)
THIS JUST IN
Basso Agreed!!
Discovery Channel and Ivan Basso confirmed Friday that under the terms of their contract, the Italian rider has agreed to provide a DNA sample if this is requested in a national judicial or disciplinary investigation.
REUSABLE
A friend of mine in china sent these to me. I though they were some pretty good ideas. Reminds me of a "reusable" project I once had in school. Chop sticks and votive were my favorites. Thanks Leeanne!!
I love you guys......Just NOT this weekend!! Oh....and fear the thumb.....and WAR DAMN EAGLE!
HACK
OH yea this lab is TOP NOTCH!!! Let’s ruin a career based on this labs findings……
A hacker stole data from computers at the French anti-doping lab where tests are being challenged by American cyclist Floyd Landis, police said Tuesday. The complaint was lodged by French Anti-Doping Agency president Pierre Bordry on Nov. 7.
"Intruders penetrated the lab's information systems and used material taken inside in order to denigrate the lab," Bordry told France Info radio Tuesday.
According to sports daily L'Equipe, a hacker accessed data and sent out letters to the IOC and WADA with the aim of discrediting the lab by calling into question its reliability.(Full article)
Well I would have to say “GOOD QUESTION!!!” This place is about at secure as a nurse’s station in elementary school!! GIVE ME A BREAK!
Heavy, down tempo, metal……ahhhh…. just the way I like it. I have just recently (6 months or so) started listing to ISIS (band info.) I have been looking for this type of band for a while. I wondered where all the heavy instrumental stuff was. Where was the blanket of dark sound I could wrap myself in? I found just that in ISIS.
Their new album “In The Absence Of Truth” was released on the Ipecac label October 31st. It’s easily as good as “Panopticon,” their 2004 release. If anything, it's a bit smoother. The transitions from ambient to driving metal are seamless and flowing. Lyrics are still few and far between, as well as indecipherable. The traditional growling vocals are still there but are highlighted with traditional clean vocals on a couple of tracks. The clean vocal is something I had not heard on the previous two albums, at least not to this extent, and it helps add to the over all depth of the album. Guitars and drums remain simple and heavy through out. The average track length is around 7 minutes and total playing time is 1 hour. There is a type of sensory deprivation I get when listening to ISIS and I think that’s the reason I want more (Buy Here.)
NEW KIT
Check out Basso in his new Team Discovery Kit. That didn’t take long! I am sure the Disco crew was eager to reap the benefits of the Basso signing (publicity, publicity, publicity.) So here he is, in Disco Blue but much to the chagrin of other pro tour team managers. The managers were hoping to collectively force (full story) all the riders implicated in Operación Puerto to submit blood samples for DNA testing. The plan was to cross reference the results to those from the bags of blood that were discovered in Operación Puerto. Team Discovery signing Basso as soon as the charges were dropped erased thier hopes of forced submission to DNA testing.
Former T-Mobile team manager Olaf Ludwig comments:
"Discovery regards dropping the legal proceedings as the same thing as being cleared," Ludwig told the Berlin Kurier daily. "What's left of a code of honor among team managers is questionable - the dumb one here is CSC (Basso’s Former Team) boss Bjarne Riis, who dissolved his contract with Basso."
Discovery Team Manager Bill Stapleton’s remarks: "I think he's been exonerated," Bill Stapleton said. "The ProTour required we wait until there was a decision. Now it's time to move on."
Quick Facts:
Operación Puerto - Spanish police uncovered a major doping network run by Madrid-based sports doctor Eufemio Fuentes at the end of May, allegedly implicating a host of top names in the sport, including former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich and Italy's Ivan Basso, as well as team managers.
Blood doping - The practice of illicitly boosting the number of red blood cells (RBCs) in the circulation in order to enhance athletic performance. RBCs from a compatible donor (or the athlete themselves) are harvested, concentrated and then transfused into the athlete’s circulation prior to competition.
GO GIRL!!!
6. One misconception about cheerleaders: "We are not just Cheerleaders". As Auburn Cheerleaders not only do we cheer at Auburn Football games we also cheer at Men's and Women's Basketball games, Volleyball games and Gymnastics meets. In addition to cheering for Auburn athletic events, we are heavily involved in and around our community. On average, we make 4-5 appearances per week at local elementary schools, retirement homes and alumni club events.
WHY SPORT?
I watched Rutgers (15) defeat Louisville (3) last night. Man what a game (click here for recap.) It was their first victory over a ranked team since 1988. Louisville also represented the highest ranked team they have ever defeated. Rutgers has had a football program for 137 years! Needless to say it could have been their biggest win ever. Fans stormed the field with 3 seconds left to play and the view from the blimp camera was awesome. It was like a reverse damn breaking with people flooding the field from all sides at once. The players, coaches and security had to force the fans off the field, reversing the tide of humanity. The students retreated to just outside of the end zones and side lines to from a human fence. The distant blimp camera view captured the mass of it all. I noticed something from this view I had never noticed from lower, in stadium, cameras. Maybe it was just the length of time the camera stayed on the field, I’m not sure, but I saw an energy I just hadn’t seen before. Anyway…..it got me thinking about sport in general. Why do I and so many people love it so much? Why do we get so swept away by a sport, even when we are not playing it ourselves? Why do we get so excited? Well….what ever that reason is, I like it. Below are the four reasons I find sport so compelling.
Sport is:
Honest - Rules define the game, break the rules and you are no longer playing the game and cannot achieve victory.
Blind - No race, No creed, No heritage, No gender, No age. The only requirement is you must play to win.
Sport has:
Spirit - It can possess a crowd of thousands to rush a field and embrace. It can insight a crowd to trample itself. It can make your day or ruin it. It can drive you, to push your body and mind, to places it could never go with out it. It can raise the hope of an entire country.
Purpose - There is an end. Victory is achievable on any day against any foe. The result is definite and undeniable.
Well this is by far my biggest pet peeve. I respect all of these artists. However, I can not for the life of me figure out why you would put a hidden track on your CD. Oh that’s right! It’s a surprise for all the attentive listeners…..it’s a BONUS! Yea… a bonus pain in my ass!! It breaks my concentration at work when everything goes silent. I can’t put these tracks in any mix! If I do I have to make the effort and forward to the next track. I never get to enjoy the “BONUS” because I am not going to sit through up to ten minutes of silence for that little snippet of tunes. At least some artist put the music on its own track, but still, encased by silence. LAME!…PEOPLE…LAME!. Not to mention after the very first time it was done it was unoriginal. It kills me, these artist are some of my favorites….how could they go so terribly wrong!! Idiocy from my music collection documented below:
Beck
“Midnight Vultures”
TRACK 11 - Debra (5:33-12:40 BLANK AS HELL)
Nirvana
“Nevermind”
TRACK 12 - Something In The Way (3:45 – 13:52 10 QUITE FRIKIN
MINUTES)
Blue October
“History for Sale”
TRACK 12 - Amazing (4:59 – 10:04 BLANKARINO)
Hurt
“Vol.I”
TRACK 11 - House Carpenter (6:45 – 8:30 YEP NOT A SOUND)
Cold
“Year Of The Spider”
Track 12 – Kill The Music Industry (2:55 – 16:08 SHHHHHHHH)
Joss Stone
“Mind, Body, and Soul”
TRACK 14 - Sleep Like A Child (5:08 – 15:27 SILENCE) here is a twist…..the “untitled hidden Track” (track 15) is its own track?? So track 14 just has a lame ass 10+ minute dead spot.
Nonpoint
“To The Pain”
TRACK 15 - Bonus Track (0 – 9:21 NADA PEEP ) ahhhhh more originality……this is also its own track with a lame ass 9+ minute dead silence at the beginning of the track
KORN
“Follow the Leader”
TRACK 13 - My Gift ToYou (7:10 – 9:14 BLANKY BLANK BLANK)
Tool
“Undertow”
TRACKS 10-98 (each 1 sec. of NOTHINGNESS) On a note of originality it’s the only CD I have with 99 tracks; total playing time 69 min. hehehe.
Wikipedia explanation for this stupid idea!!!
For Comprehensive Hidden Track Lists http://www.hiddensongs.com/
DISCO BASSO!!!
Basso joins Team Discovery Channel. Oh man…..this is pretty exciting. Basso was the only man to hang with Lance in the mountains a couple years ago. He did not get to race Le Tour this year because of Operation Puerto, which was a complete travesty, considering there was no merit to the allegations and he and everyone else involved has since been cleared. Lance is still involved with Team Discovery and has a knack for building a winning team around a great talent. I see some really great things for the American Discovery Channel team in 07. GO DISCO!!!!!
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Two weeks after being cleared of doping accusations, Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso signed a two-year contract to ride for Lance Armstrong's former Discovery Channel cycling team. 
"I am very excited to have Ivan as a part of the team," said Bill Stapleton, general manager of the Discovery team. "During Lance's final Tours, Ivan pushed Lance to a new level and we expect great things from him in 2007."
Basso finished third in the 2004 Tour de France and was second in 2005 behind Armstrong. Basso left his Danish team, CSC, three weeks ago. Basso will begin training with Discovery in December in Austin and Stapleton said he considers him the team leader for the 2007 Tour de France. (Entire article here)
Basso’s results:
2006 – Team CSC
Stages 5 (TTT), 8, 16, 20 and Overall – 2006 Giro d'Italia.
Azzurri d'Italia classification
Stage 2 and overall – Critérium International
Stage 2B – Circuit de la Sarthe
2005 – Team CSC
Stages 17 and 18 – 2005 Giro d'Italia
Stages 1, 2, 3, 5 and overall – Post Danmark Rundt
2nd Overall – Tour de France
2004 – Team CSC
Stage 12 and 3rd overall, Tour de France
Giro dell'Emilia
Grand Prix Jyske Bank
2003 – Fassa Bortolo
7th overall – Tour de France
2002 – Fassa Bortolo
11th overall – Tour de France
White jersey best young rider classification
2001 – Fassa Bortolo
Stage 1 – Tour Méditerranéen
Stage 5 – Bicicleta Vasca
Stage 5 – Österreich Rundfahrt
2000 – Amica Chips
Stages 1 and 3B – Regio Tour
1999 – Riso Scotti-Vinavil
1998 – Amateur
F#CK IT!!!
Well, profanities are now allowed in news interviews. This is complete and utter SH&T!! Are you kidding me!!!…….we must now brace ourselves for a litany of profanity laced interviews. This also means that, if you have children in the room, you can no longer guage what language they are exposed to. You know when this gets out people are going to absolutly expliot it. I mean really…why allow this!!! Whats the point! I can’t think of a single one. We all know you can’t controll live interviews. People subcontiously know cursing is not allowed so the interiews generally stay clean. With this briliant move the muzzles are off! And for what…..
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Saddam during his trial.
Saddam had refused to stand for the verdict and had to be lifted to his feet by two court bailiffs.
"Make him stand," the judge ordered as the former president stayed seated.
He then stood in silence and waited for his fate to be announced to the world.
Saddam was convicted of ordering the deaths of 148 Shia men and teenage boys in the town of Dujail in 1982. The killings followed a failed assassination attempt against him and were intended to act as a grim warning to others not to oppose him.
I grabbed these four lines from an article
