Guest Thomas Keske Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 BRIDGE PIGEONS The road crew's equipment was dripping with some sort of mysterious, slippery substance that I could not identify, so I asked an impish ELF who lives under the bridge, as roommate of Mr. Tin Whiskers. He said something about the National Defense that did not quite make sense, that they were misspending on the Da Fence. You know... Down Der, by da Mexico border, insteada fixin da byways an bridges, which was what was causin our intrastructure destructure The ELF told me of an Immunoglobulin Goblin who experimented in an underground Lavatory Laboratory. After many repeated cynical clinical trials, he succeeded in making incremental excremental progress toward the volume production of amino acid guanylating secret reagents, using pigeon guano as a readily available guanidinium in the functionalized hydrogel as bile acid feeling like your bowels have gone bowling and thrown a gutter ball in your gullet by the ravenous gourmands of an incompetent guilty government He built bridges plastered with Beverly Hills Botox ballot box cement shoes trowelled over a face covered with a hot towel to stop anyone from seeing the fine cracks, the fine wrinkles in the face of a vain 25 year-old starlet with crows feet stomped by corrosive road salt and assault and battery acid transported by pigeon resealed ghosts not successfully analyzed after the fact by the cosmetic structural defect detectives. Toiling over his experimental toilet, flush with pride at his discoveries, by mixing battery acid and applying high voltage to the bronchoalveolar lavage brake lining fluid with the superficial superglue that held the loose ceiling bolts, his grant unfortunately ran out and his dog was run over, nearly exhausting an oily black smoke out his tailpipe and putting the brakes on his investigation. The Immunoglobulin Goblin applied for a bridge loan in order to continue funding his research, but the payments lapsed, the economy collapsed, and the automobile immune system completely collapsed, until the raucous crowds and the carrion crows and the carcasses of the cars were still Motionless Like bumper-to-bumper dead buffalo needing to go to the bathroom and smelling like the town dump like white pigeon dropping bombs splattering bleached white bones of bison killing the last prayers of the prairies and the belief in Hebrew National Beef with six billion sold, six billion buried as advertised on vulgar commercial billboards We will build another Ark when the Artic ice melts, in cubits, with ice cubes and 2x4's, in order to save the endangered species 2x2, when the melted ice floods all the Florida auto engines. No wonder we cannot trust the disgusting truss system with the rusted gussets, corrupted corrugated plates and sinister sinusoidal supports, soon to be destroyed by a tsunami in the sewer system. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 77. Pantagraph.com | News | Pigeons took toll on collapsed Minnesota bridge Pantagraph.com is a publication of The Pantagraph, a newspaper in Bloomington, Illinois. ... Pigeons took toll on collapsed Minnesota bridge. By Martiga Lohn . http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/08/22/news/doc46c... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20439533/site/newsweek/page/0/#storyContinued Could pigeon dung alone be responsible for the catastrophe? "We can't speculate too much; the investigation is still going on and this is early in process," says Neal Langerman, a health and safety division expert with the American Chemical Society. But he says there is "a chemical mechanism by which the high salt levels of dried pigeon dung can cause corrosion and weaken metal. But there are mysteries to the pigeon that few of us know. "Pigeons don't pee," explains Fitzpatrick. "It's a water-saving mechanism. Reptiles and birds crystallize their ammonium waste into uric acid, which is the white stuff in bird poop. It forms a salt when it dries and could certainly accelerate corrosion of steel." ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/research/pelican.html A Pigeon-Based Guidance System In one of the odder stories of World War II, the US military backed an investigation into weapons guided by trained pigeons. The investigation was conducted by the well-known behavioral psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner. In early 1942, Skinner, then of the University of Minnesota, conducted preliminary studies on the concept of using trained animals as a guidance system. The studies were funded at a low level by General Mills, a major food producer. The US National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), which funded new technologies that might be useful for winning the war, was skeptical of the idea, but in mid-1943 awarded a $25,000 USD contract to General Mills to continue the work. The investigation was codenamed PROJECT PIGEON, and Skinner hoped to be able to use pigeons to guide a weapon to within 6 meters (20 feet) of a target. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Effect of Low Energy, Extremely Low Frequency (ELF ... Title : The Effect of Low Energy, Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Electromagnetic Radiation on Operant Behavior in the Pigeon and the Rat. stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPr... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Diary of a Mad Messenger Pigeon - alt.surrealism | Google Groups Thomas Keske. View profile. More options Jun 10, 9:44 pm. Newsgroups: alt.surrealism ... against Pigeons Act in major march Pigeon Resistance ... groups.google.com/group/alt.surrealism/browse_thre... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.silvio-co.com/pigeons/weather-warfare.htm The pigeon is a highly strung, finely tuned compass on wings. NASA has never devised the range or quantity of fail safe features or redundancies for its equipment that God has endowed to his incredible winged creation. The racing pigeon is unique in the feathered world! Keeping all of these known attributes in mind, it is not difficult to comprehend how the manipulation of the environment, just might, let me repeat, just might play havoc with the on-board biological navigational systems of the racing pigeon. Figure 4: Long distance racing homers like these have extremely sensitive and highly developed biological navigational systems that may be at risk through ELF manipulation. The pigeon above is owned and raced by Thomas Mattacchione and the photo was taken by Andrew Skrobot. After over 30 years of development, and extensive testing around the globe, these new scalar electromagnetic weapons are up and running and ready to go. Tom Bearden, at his website Cheniere, dicusses the history of these new scalar electromagnetic weapons in his paper "Historical Background of Scalar EM Weapons." These are the weapons Nikita Khrushchev spoke of in January, 1960. Here's a direct quotation from the U.S. Secretary of Defense, dealing with the very kind of electromagnetic weapons that you thought was a conspiratorial notion of mine when I wrote about them openly. Feel free to check the reference; it's in the official transcript as cited. 'Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations... It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts.' ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.elfwood.com/art/w/i/willemoever/lonely_elf.jpg.html This blind elf has been living all on her own in the woods since she's been cast out of her village because she can't see. Now, a little pigeon is her only friend and helps her survive... And i hope the pigeon survives in the world with poachers n so on. >_< guess he's clever enough, anyways does she appear in your book? Well, originally she had a role in my book, but I rewrote her part so many times, and in the end I left her out, and she was replaced by two other elfs... HAHA! that's really good! i likey very muchy the detail on the scabbard excetera excetera...you've got the proportions just right as far as i can see...what i don't get is why you haven't got more comments already! ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2399 actually the pigeon comment is the closest one here. Its actually about one night that bob was out waiting for his LSD dealer who was coincidentally a large asian man who resembled an eskimo. Anyway theres probably a good chance that it is named after one of those people in the movies or whatever but it is actually just what he decided to refer to his dealer during this song. Anyway he wrote it while he was waiting on a park bench and there was an older man a couple seats down feeding pigeons. Peace - papa, colfax, IA Bob was going through what I call his 'confused phase' when he wrote this - how can you be "neath the trees" feeding pigeons on a limb? They must be very low hanging limbs - possibly the pigeons have been fed too much and are now overwight? Would that be why the limbs are hanging so low? I'll ask my chum Calvin at http://www.zekesavant.com for clarification. - Zeke, Wodonga, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.holyducttape.com/oli/rebellion.html The Manchurian Elf (Brendan Dillon) One of the Marshals punched a few keys on the box, expanding the deostatic field to encompass the room, to prevent the prisoner from teleporting out of custody. He unlocked the box, picked up Norman the Elf, and placed him on the bed. As they walked out of Enloe, they began discussing possible punishments for Norman for staging his rebellion. "Maybe we can convince Delilah to revoke his deification. Make him a mortal, with no powers," Jason suggested. "I dunno, I'm kind of leaning towards Bevin's proposal," Brendan said. "We sentence him to purchase all of Bevin's feminine products until the end of time." I think some people may object to that," said Wayland. "Who cares about them? Goddamned hippie tree-huggers." "Yes. He was planning to schedule the handover for just after the theatrical release of the 'Manchurian Candidate' remake. He always had a weird sense of humor." ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.ic-stories.com/Act-III/Chapter35.htm When the group was inside, Hecate saw that there were nearly two dozen people there of many different species. The apparent leader, a tall, thin, rather austere looking elf dressed in black and silver strode forward. "Ah, you must be the lovely Sheila," he observed, smiling at the terrified-looking vixen. Turning to the apparently-unconscious man, he nodded. "And this must be her guardian, though I'm surprised that he was captured so easily." Stepping back, he waved his hand in front of himself, casting a spell. "No, I don't think so. Not so easily. More like you let yourself be captured." When the man didn't reply the elf frowned. "I tire of this game, human. You twitched when I grabbed your hair, so I know you're not unconscious." "Paid?" Arden echoed with a quirky smile of his own. "I'm not being paid anything." "Oh, no," the elf replied, looking rather put out. "You're not one of those goody-goody types who feels obligated to help the poor and downtrodden, are you?" Arden ignored Hecate's derisive snort. "Actually, no. To be honest, I've spent most of my life as a paid assassin. This particular job just happens to be something that I'm doing for personal reasons." "Hmmm. That's too bad," the elf replied with a melancholy sigh. "You could have been of such use to me." Arden let out a started cry as one of the guards behind him plunged a dagger in, and then pulled it out. A second later, he heard the sound of a scream as the dagger dropped to the floor, the blade slowly being eaten away by his acidic blood. Taking this as their clue, Hecate released the spell she had been holding, tossing her two guards like rag dolls through the air and into the walls where they crumpled silently to the floor. Nobody paid much attention to them, though, as Arden grunted loudly, followed by the sharp snap of rope breaking. Freed of his bonds, he grabbed one guard, swung him around and smashed him into the shocked guards who'd been behind him, one cradling his wounded hand where the acid-like blood had splashed it. ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Pigeon dung examined in bridge collapse - Yahoo! News .... the buildup of pigeon dung on the span near downtown Minneapolis two decades ago. ... Pigeon droppings contain ammonia and acids, said chemist Neal Langerman, an news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070823/ap_on_re_us/bridge_co... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.jbc.org/cgi/reprint/159/1/153.pdf Dialyzed extracts of pigeon liver acetone powder were used in all experiments. The preparation of the enzyme, the methods of quantitative determination of the products, and the conditions used in conducting the reaction were the same as described by Evans, Vennesland, and Slotin Separation and degradation of the products were accomplished by a modified form of the procedure described by Wood, Werkman, Hemingway, and Nier (5). The pyruvic acid was bound by bisulfite and the malic, fumaric, and lactic acids were separated from the pyruvic acid by extraction with ethyl ether. After removal of the bisulfite the pyruvic acid was recovered by ether extraction. The carboxyl group of pyruvate was then liberated by ceric sulfate oxidation (6). The malic and fumaric acids were separated from the lactic acid by precipitation as the silver salts. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1554135 Immunoglobulin and antibody levels in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from symptomatic and asymptomatic pigeon breeders Twenty-one symptomatic subjects with pigeon breeders' lung (PBL) and 10 asymptomatic pigeon breeders, with a similar exposure to pigeon antigens, underwent bronchoalveolar lavage. Total IgG, IgM and IgA in lavage fluid were determined as were specific antibody levels against antigens in pigeon serum and droppings. Results were converted to levels in epithelial lining fluid (ELF) using lavage and serum urea ratios. It was found that symptomatics represent a group that is hyperreactive to pigeon antigens compared with the asymptomatic group with significantly higher IgG, IgM, IgA levels as well as specific antibody levels against pigeon serum and droppings. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/wizards-non.html Magical Beings (at least those who have names) "We're not just ugly fairies." -- Brotherhood of Goblins slogan, quoted by Ragnok the Pigeon-Toed The Wizarding World is home to many Beings who are not Wizards. These range from House-elves such as Winky to immensely wise and intelligent beings like Magorian the Centaur. Each of them shares in common the fact that they are looked down upon by members of the Wizarding community. The Fountain of Magical Brethren, until recently standing in the Atrium of the Ministry of Magic, gave testimony to this foolish prejudice ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Might of giant proves harmful to Agassi's ... .... though the giant would blow the pigeon-toed elf clean out of the stadium; at others, the elf would be dancing merry rings round him and ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/tennis/wimbledon/a... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russians Capture North Pole; Christmas and Oil Reserves at Risk ... Plan in Place to Reduce Hollywood Pigeons and Stupid Starlets ... Santa, the Elves and all North Pole oil and gas reserves will be assimilated into Russia . inebriatedpress.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/russians-. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.sdreader.com/php/ma_show.php?id=365 nothing but big sacks of Costco Pigeon Death Nothing. Zero. Not even a pigeon. After several hours of field surveys, we concluded that the Morena Boulevard Costco could be the most biologically sterile patch in the county. The elves lined up to order some of those mmmm-mmmm-good all-beef Hebrew National dogs to see if they could attract any winged things. As we sat around munching and pondering, we drew up this list of reasons why there are no pigeons, or much of anything else, at the Morena Boulevard Costco. Not much there to interest a pigeon, or the Alices for that matter. We finished our juicy dogs and flew the coop. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng385/jefferspoems.htm Slowly the passenger pigeons increased, then suddenly their numbers Became enormous, they would flatten ten miles of forest When they flew down to roost, and the cloud of their rising Eclipsed the dawns. They became too many, they are all dead Not one remains. How many are left? For a time, for a few years, their bones Turned the dark prairies white. You, Death, you watch for these things. These explosions of life: they are your food. They make your feasts. Three billion people: our bones, ours too, would make Wide prairies white, a beautiful snow of unburied bones: Bones that have twitched and quivered in the nights of love, Bones that have shaken with laughter and hung slack .............in sorrow, coward bones Worn out with trembling, strong bones broken on the rack, .............bones broken in battle, Broad bones gnarled with hard labor, and the little bones ............of sweet young children, and the white empty skulls, Little carved ivory wine-jugs that used to contain Roll those idiot black eyes of yours On the field-beats, not on intelligent man, We are not in your order. You watched the dinosaurs Grow into horror: they had been little elves in the ditches and presently became enormous with leaping flanks And tearing teeth, plated with armor, nothing could stand against them, nothing but you, Death, and they died. You watched the sabre-tooth tigers Develop those huge fangs, unnecessary as our sciences, and presently they died. You have their bones In the oil-pits and layer rock, you will not have ours. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://dlatman.com/comments/feed/ "More violence than the human mind can comprehend." Kill the Indians, Enslave the Africans, Kill the British, Kill each other, Kill more Indians, Kill the Buffalo, Kill the Passenger Pigeon, Steal Oil from Anybody, Mexicans? Kill the Germans, Insane Nuclear Program Thank you Hal. I enjoyed looking at your photographs of squirrels and elves; very cute you are so talented and have a great soul. If you explore you Judaism more deeply you will find infinite reward, and of course keep on caring about humanity. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=1077 ELF has no formal headquarters or publicly known organizational structure. Rosebraugh says he doesn't know who is or is not a member. But he knows every detail of what they do and is well- established as the one and only authoritative ELF media contact. ELF is shy and restrained only when it comes to the identification of ELF activists who have committed some form of extreme vandalism. The evidence, so far, suggests most ELF activists are young and probably students in high school or college. Of the four so far arrested in connection with a series of burnings of new homes under construction on Long Island, New York, three were in high school; only the fourth was over age 21. The Federal Bureau of Investigation now considers ELF to be one of the nation's principal terrorist groups. Over the past decade of mounting eco-terrorism, Virginia was hardly aware of the subject . . . until January 30, 2001. That's when Craig Rosebraugh was invited to address an assembly of students, faculty, and visitors at Virginia Tech University. Elves on campus Fortunately, a few people in the Old Dominion were forewarned and alert. One of them was Bruce Griffith, a lumberman in southwest Virginia. In a matter of hours, he, Talley Griffith, and Jane Hogan from Southside, Virginia, like the Minute Men of 226 years ago in Massachusetts, had rallied a Virginia Treekeepers (TreeKeepers.org) delegation of citizens to make the long trip to protest and monitor Rosebraugh's appearance on the Tech campus. All of the effort, it is fair to assume, was to extol the "virtues" of ELF, anarchy and socialism. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php?topic=36786.0 The Chronicle of Higher Education Are you scared to go back to school? The scariest thing is how difficult it is to predict this sort of thing. So really, you can never know when or if it will happen. Deeply saddened anthroid Watching unscrupulous elves of the tundra for 17 years. Distinguished Senior Member Articles A CAMP OF THEIR OWN Gay, lesbian, and transgender students participate in a summer leadership retreat at Towson University. Students at "gay camp" did team-building exercises and developed organizing strategies. (Photograph by C.M. Hall) OPERATION UNDER ATTACK Medical students from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences stage mock battles to prepare for real wars. GRADING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH New studies shed light on whether getting students into the lab earlier makes a difference. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 26. Minneapolis Insider: GLBT Minneapolis DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed by Minneapolis Insider authors are .... A drag queen, a drag queen with really hot elves ...elves as big as the sky! ... glbtminneapolis.blogs.com/blog/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.nesfa.org/reviews/Olson/LastHotTime.html The Last Hot Time is set in the Borderlands world used by a number of the Minneapolis writers. The Borderlands are the areas where the breakthrough of the Elven world into our own is strongest and elves and humans coexist. (Don't feel you need to know the Borderlands universe to enjoy the story - it's self- contained). The Borderlands Elves are not Tolkien's Elves, they're old and subtle and very, very chic, but they're people also with at least their proper human share of evil and stupidity (but they never dress unstylishly.) They're cruel to us and to each other, but they're physically gorgeous. They appreciate good music, but their society is riddled with class differences. Where the book is set is easy: Chicago - a Chicago which happens to be one of the borderlands areas and hence which is inhabited mostly by outcasts, both human and Elven: people with little connection to their own societies. It's a little harder to make out just when this book is set. Some things make it look like the near future, but the book is set in a world which looks a lot like 1930s Chicago. Never being quite sure when the setting was a constant minor irritant. The story follows a young man, an EMT, who sets out for Chicago for obscure reasons and, through luck, falls in with Mr. Patrise, a gang lord who takes him on as his in-house doctor. The gang's life is pretty good: they live in a fancy hotel owned by the gang, and dine at a night club owned by the gang. What do they do? It looks like they fight evil. Much of the story is about the gang lord's effort to locate and kill a particularly nasty renegade elf who is attempting to raise huge magical energies through something like necromancy practiced on living humans for some nefarious elvish purpose. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.vitatech.net/pdf/University_Clients.pdf George Washington University Psychiatric Laboratory, Medical College Center for Family Research, Ross Hall Washington, DC Susan L. Warren, M.D., Director of Psychiatric Research (202) 994-0033 VitaTech conducted two EMF site surveys to design, fabricate, and install an AC ELF and RF (radio frequency) 2850 ft shielding system for Dr. Warren's new Psychiatric Research Suite, on the 5th floor in Ross Hall. The AC ELF/RF shield installed by VitaTech enclosed two procedure rooms and observation room with seam welded aluminum plates, copper/ aluminum mesh, honeycomb and EMI power filters. Mayo Clinic - Facilities Rochester, Minnesota ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Central/08/18/mr.littleguy.ap/ Minneapolis elf has all the right answers MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) -- Four-year-old Shira Rabkin wanted to ask just the right questions, so she thought long and hard. "Dear Mr. Little Guy," she finally scrawled in big letters across a sheet of paper. "Do you like mints?" After some more pondering, she added, "and going to Camp Snoopy? Love, Shira." Mr. Little Guy was nowhere in sight this early August evening, so Shira stuffed her letter behind his door at the base of a hollowed out ash tree. It's always open, and always full -- of letters, pens, flowers and coins. The elusive elf has enchanted Twin Citians ever since the 6-inch wooden door appeared eight years ago, just off a walking path around popular Lake Harriet. Double takes led to messages, and messages to answers -- and somehow Mr. Little Guy keeps up, responding to the queries in typed notes half the size of business cards. Shira is headed to kindergarten, and she's a big believer. But parents are smitten, too. "I think it's darling," said Susan Scofield, Shira's mother. "I think it's magical" ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://twincities.indymedia.org/index.php?limit_start=168 Previously: 06/21/06 The FBI is Investigating Local Activist(s) 09/13/06 FBI Continues to Harrass Activists 12/25/06 More State Repression 01/21/07 Feds Attempt to Censor Twin Cities Indymedia 06/07/07 Midwest ELF Investigation 08/20/07 Midwest ALF/ELF Grand Jury - September 6th Tuesday July 19 at the Dinkytowner in Minneapolis will be the last Opp Prop there. Films start after 8 PM The Spook Behind the Door, a film about black nationalism and the CIA. Also: a special feature we can't tell you about! The Dinkytowner is located at 412-1/2 14th Ave SE in MPLS Music by Free Radio Twin Cities 93.1 DJs Nov. 3-4) 2007 Midwest Socialist Conference: Building a Revolutionary Alternative ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.nplusonemag.com/levy.html Seventeen years later, in February 1848, not long after seeing Parliament invaded by workers with bayonets, Tocqueville retired to his family estate and found that the wilderness of Detroit had followed him back to the ancient chateau in Normandy. The grounds still had reminders of the first Revolution, when the local peasants had broken into the pigeon house and strangled all the birds because keeping them was an aristocratic privilege. " He visits malls and megachurches and historical simulacra and decries their fakeness, like some renegade Barthes without a gay man's sense of kitsch. Reminding us that the official reason for Tocqueville's trip was to research American penal reform, he visits prisons, and discovers that they are very bad indeed: "These wild-animal looks ... The shouts, the fuck yous, the enraged banging on the metal doors ..." As they say in eighteenth-century France, si le roi le savait! If only the king knew! ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.wowwiki.com/Half-Elf At one time Half-elves were barely accepted by the Alliance but are still dedicated to the Alliance cause. They were not fully accepted as they did not fit in with either their human or high elf societies, or even night elves (who were suspicious of their high elven ancestry), and were viewed with prejudice by both of their parent races. While they were dedicated to helping the Alliance they also held the dream of settling their own nation and asked for help from the Alliance. Others felt like taking things into their own hands and left the alliance lands setting up settlements with or without support from their allies. However views have been changing in recent years and they are slowly being accepted by both of their parent races according to the Alliance Player's Guide, as wars and strife have proven how petty such prejudice is. They are also said to proud of their heritage, and name, though they tend to be fairly humble in nature. In many enlightened cities half-elves find little of the historic discrimination. Most humans have finally accepted them into society. Because humans are more easily accepting of them, they tend to socialize more with them. However some prejudice still exists especially from many high elves who are scornful of them and may or may not attempt to hide such feelings. Like their parents on both sides, half-elves revere the Holy Light. Half-elves are particularly fond of the philosophy, as it links them inextricably with both their human and elf parents. They consider the Light as a way of having an identity that they may otherwise lack. Some half-elves choose to follow their ancient legacy of druidism by becoming savagekin. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=1259 Wolf said she was drawn to Nukewatch by its creative protests, and by longtime Nukewatch activists Bonnie Urfer and John LaForge. Urfer and LaForge have been arrested and jailed with numerous others over the years for trespassing at Project ELF ? the Navy's first strike nuclear war communication system ? in northern Wisconsin. In addition to demonstrating at nuclear silos and recruiting centers, Nukewatch also monitors the transportation of radioactive waste around the country and around the world on an ongoing basis. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Satirical Political Report - An Offbeat Look at the Hot-Button ... Claiming that public spending on infrastructure smacks of Soviet- style socialism, the GOP candidates explained that the wealthiest citizens in a capitalist . satiricalpolitical.com/?p=970 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 9. MPR: GOP picks Twin Cities for its 2008 convention .... of Minneapolis and St. Paul to be our host of the 2008 Republican National ... Announcement of awarding of 2008 GOP convention to St. Paul . minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/09/27/g... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 11. Minneapolis: A Twintacular GOP Convention!!! - Wonkette .... the 2008 GOP convention is going to happen, so we'll tell you: Minneapolis and ... 2008. convention. gop. hell. minneapolis. Read More: . http://www.wonkette.com/politics/minneapolis/a-twintacula... ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michelle Malkin " Minneapolis bridge collapse Bridges and Resonance " The WYSIWYG Blog. Minneapolis bridge Collapse! " Freedom Folks ... What the hell is up with all the damn bridges collapsing? . michellemalkin.com/2007/08/01/minneapolis-bridge- ------------------------------------------------------------------ All the dead in Minneapolis Bridge collapse going straight to hell ... There are no First Amendment rights in Minneapolis, because all fags are filthy and lawless (2 Pet. 2:7,8). They died at the Bridge for the fag sins of http://www.clipmarks.com/clipmark/5F1400D0-B8EC-49DF-A97C... ------------------------------------------------------------------ (10/31/2001) As Nation Mourns, GOP Shoves Through Political Agenda Basic public infrastructure in the U.S. has gone to hell over the years because ... and state public health infrastructure, a laughably small amount . http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0110a/sept11gopagenda.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.danablankenhorn.com/education/index.html What the Minnesota Bridge Disaster Teaches About Terrorism In Minnesota, the disaster along I-35 is being mitigated by the preparedness of first responders, who have been practicing how to deal with such events for years. The Real Magic of Harry Potter Politics by Other Means Rice Science Weekly: Quasicrystals Falwell's Place in History Guns Were Not The Issue The Decline and Fall of American Civilization ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/02/03/findlaw.analysis.hilden.potter/ Does Putin have a case against the 'Harry Potter' house elf? According to a Russian newspaper, a major Moscow law firm is preparing to sue the moviemakers for alleged misuse of Putin's image. (Oddly, it is not clear from the coverage to what extent Putin himself is behind the suit.) The firm reportedly plans to allege that Dobby's creators intentionally based the house elf's appearance on Putin's. Perhaps the last word belongs to the Hollywood Reporter, which describes Dobby as "a neurotic elf ... who incessantly grovels and punishes himself with self-abuse worthy of a medieval flagellant." No wonder some Russians are upset. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://sciweb.lib.umn.edu/ej/chem.phtml University of Minnesota Electronic Journals: Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science Federal and Minnesota Bridge Resources RefWorks Basics 9/11 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 28. Four Crows Remain .... one point the mind control function of the ELF towers had been turned up a notch. ... had nothing to do with 9-11. The Manchurian Electorate is brainwashed. . educate-yourself.org/zsl/zslfourcrowsremain12sep02... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 76. Pigeon Eaters Invade The Mission .... hawk holds down the dead pigeon with its feet while it plucks out the feathers with its beak. ... Aren't they just crows, not ravens? (Drennan) They are ravens. . sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/03/22/u... A new demographic category of rapacious diner has swooped into the Mission District to gorge on the 'hood's most plentiful food. Burritos? Pizza? Cheap Chinese? No. The seemingly infinitely available snack that is suddenly getting gobbled is raw, hand- plucked pigeon! For bloody-beak details on this fowl spectacle, I interviewed two locals who enjoy watching the feathers fly. One witness is Joe Drennan, a wildlife ecologist for Garcia Associates, a biological- and cultural-resources consulting firm on the sixth floor of the U.S. Bank building on Mission Street. Ahhh (squinting to see the church). He was a Lutheran falcon? Or Presbyterian? Hi, Fred. Have you seen those pigeon-chasing raptors lately? What is it? A mating dance? No, they are actually breeding in the air. It is called a cloacal kiss Aren't they just crows, not ravens? (Drennan) They are ravens. And mobbing is the technical birding term for what they are doing. It means that the ravens and hawk are having a turf battle. Or that the older ravens are teaching the younger birds how to fight. He knows he is living in a food paradise full of pudgy pigeons ------------------------------------------------------------------ 12. Pigeons: A Human Ally A sick, stressed, or overworked pigeon can develop fret marks... gaps, wrinkles, or rough areas... on wing feathers, inhibiting a bird's flying ability. ... http://www.iowasource.com/animals/pigeons_1205.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Bridge disaster in Minneapolis - The Boston Globe MINNEAPOLIS -- An eight-lane highway bridge clogged with rush- hour traffic buckled and ... He said the structure had been undergoing cosmetic repairs, ... http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/02/bri... Page 2 of 2 --Homeland Security officials said they have ruled out terrorism as a cause. Pawlenty said the bridge had been inspected in 2005 and 2006 and "no immediate or noted structural problems" were found. He said the structure had been undergoing cosmetic repairs ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/03/bridge.victims/index.html?eref= rss_mostpopular CNN) -- Victims who died in the Minnesota bridge collapse Wednesday included a father nicknamed "Homer," a successful businesswoman, a "chatterbox" who "loved to smile and laugh," and a mother who dreamed of a cosmetics career. Julia Blackhawk, 32, was "so excited" about the cosmetology classes she was returning from when she crossed the bridge, her ex-husband Khaffak Ansari told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "God can be so cruel sometimes." Becoming a cosmetologist was "her lifetime dream," he told the Pioneer Press. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.d.umn.edu/publications/bridge/805/alumnotes.html BRIDGE ALUMNI NOTES The University of Minnesota Duluth Bridge publishes Alumni Notes. Candy Furo has been inducted into the Grandma's Marathon Hall of Fame She is part of the Lake Superior Ragtime Society and the Chippewa Valley Ragtime Society, where she plays ragtime piano. Jason Befort was recently elected as Top Dog Designer by Dirty Paws Pet Products He had to board up buildings and stock supplies when the Cook Islands were met with Cyclone Meena. Julie is vice president of human resources for Golf Galaxy, Inc Catherine was also working with the Mongolian National Television Presently he serves as chief of the High Altitude Reconnaissance division at Headquarters Air Combat Command Barbara and her family reside in Champlin, Minn., where she works in the accounting department for Caterpillar Paving Products. Bryan recently traveled to Kenya, where he used his experience in ceramic arts to assist the Akamba people in the use of alternative building techniques. Heidi left law enforcement and is now a researcher on the Botox team for Allergan, Inc They celebrated their wedding in both the U.S. and Turkey. Denise is a certified massage therapist at Mirror Images Styling & Tanning Solon and a floral designer for Dunbar Floral & Gifts, both in Duluth. Kaleb Anderson directed a UMD dramatization of the Kafka story, Metamorphosis Four graduates of UMD's music program wrote the show theme song: Chris Fahey '03, Andrew Bartelson '03, Rick Widen, '03 and Matt Peterson '04, who are also in the band Sunny Wicked They also played at The Lion's Den in New York Angela is the director of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Services at UMD. Stephen W. Blackmarr has finished flight training at Top Gun Flight School in Nevada. BRIDGE, the UMD Magazine, 1049 University Drive, Duluth, MN 55812, (218) 726-8000 The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/03/bridge.victims/index.html?eref= rss_mostpopular In 1997, the department cited problems with the approach spans on both ends of the bridge, including "cracks . . . in the cross girder at the end of the approach spans." In a 2001 report, department engineers said that the bridge's deck truss "has not experienced fatigue cracking, but that it has many poor fatigue details on the main truss and floor truss system." ------------------------------------------------------------------ 66. The Victorian Pantry, Authentic Vintage Recipies For Victorian enthusiasts and anyone wanting authentic Victorian recipies, many ... Truss six pigeons as for boiling, grate the crumb of a small loaf, scrape a ... http://www.thecompletevictorian.homestead.com/ThePantry. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://home.kc.rr.com/hightech/hightech/hightech207.html Economists may be better forecasters than physicists. Are utilities going to rip out serviceable power lines to put up superconductors? Not if they have to double or triple your electric bill to pay for it. Such worldly concerns aside, physicists are silly with excitement. "Somebody described scientists like pigeons", said Brian Schwartz, a physicist at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. "You throw bread here, and everybody pecks here. Then you throw bread over there, and everybody pecks there". The record-holders are IBM researchers, led by Paul Grant, who pushed the threshold to 234 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Grant and company surpassed the report by Maeda of superconductivity onset at minus 243 degrees. Maeda started with copper oxide - or copper and oxygen, the common denominators in nearly all the new superconductors - and added bismuth, strontium and calcium. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/25/ MNGMCMJSQJ1.DTL&feed=rss.news But making the "significant quantities" described in Litvinenko's body by the British Health Protection Agency would require a nuclear reactor that could bombard the metallic element bismuth with neutrons. To most chemists, this is astonishing ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://sfpoetry.org/matth1.html I like science. Someone is trying to poison me. I like tall women. I am a special agent of God. --from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test I hear sounds other people don't hear but that's because I'm awake and they're asleep. I hear the sounds of pigeon wings folding on the window. I hear God laughing and it sounds like a question with the last word cut off. I am just another Cassandra mad prophecies clear the sun ------------------------------------------------------------------ Pigeons, People, and Pigeon-Holes. a general aversion to "pigeon-holing" people and the risk of applying stereo- ...... for the restandardized Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory: . http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327752jpa6401 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Adenylate cyclase and membrane fluidity half-layer of the bilayer induced in pigeon erythrocyte membrane correlated multiphasic changes on fluidity. and adenylate cyclase activity. . http://www.springerlink.com/index/RUU24252470P5335.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ 11. Changes in brain-evoked potentials under the influence of a ... ture of the multiphasic evoked potential recorded in the animal exposed to the .... Important results have been obtained on the pigeon. cerebellar cortex. http://www.springerlink.com/index/M76H0QV5K12268P3.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://galenred.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/elemental/ Bridge Is Symbol Making Uttered Truth Hurt (Bismuth) Atomic number eighty-three (A-net) and trivalent (tv) are two traits of the element known as bismuth. It's in your Pepto-Bismol to keep you in the pink, which is the name of a pink-haired performer I've noticed more than once (and had "impure" thoughts that almost got started in my brain) who I am sure is not "naturally pink" like that so I'm not thinking about any "other hair" she might have, yet of course I am too thinking about that hair by trying not to think about it. What hair? There was not hairiness in this discussion of bismuth and bridges, so let's get back on track and not go off the bridge. That bridge fell down, went "boom" and everything. People are upset. Experts are on the scene (with rescue/recovery workers who got there earlier) to determine the cause of this bridge collapse which has ended lives, disrupted that entire city and region, threatened the future of all of them as well as the Republican party itself (thus impacting the world and the cosmos, which it wishes to rule) since they have a "big meetin'" written into the Book of Life in just about a year from now, and they'll need to keep on schedule. Depends on what it takes to tend to things. If it requires make- up and a mirror, it's never gonna be "right" and it will never "fail" either, and will always look "good" and will also be "pointless" and not really pointing toward life, or death, or anything other than "beauty" so let's not get too distracted with our beauty, shall we? wink wink wink! Let's make sure the bridges are not "about to fall" so that IT gets ugly. We have a bridge up 'heah in these neck-o-the-woods parts, that is 82 years old. That means next year it will be 83 (my dad is 84) and it might get grumpy. Grumpy old bridge, gob (piggy brood grumbled). Bridge of gobs, bog (forgo bobbed gigs). Bog it down, bid (biting odd bow). Bid us goodness, bug (dubious eggs bonds, sobs going subdued)!!! (now them's weird words!) Musings ODEO Poetry Rants Retention Speaking Out Spirituality Vanity wordplay WordPress Tips World YouTube ------------------------------------------------------------------ 10. A fear of wrinkles | Guardian daily comment | Guardian Unlimited A fear of wrinkles. We're scared of old people, because they show us what we'll become ... Pigeon's emphasis on "the real beauty" of older people is not a http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1385774,00... ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Pigeon Fabric Softener (South Korea) R. W. Formula element of wrinkle free made through special process protects fabric, coats it finely and smoothes out the wrinkles. Spray pigeon prevents . pigeon62813.trustpass.alibaba.com/offerdetail/1272. ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. IN VIVO STRAINS IN PIGEON FLIGHT FEATHER SHAFTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ... cortex wrinkles (Gibson and Ashby, 1988). Wrinkling of the. cortex is likely to occur when: .... two birds in which such a comparison could be made (pigeon jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/201/22/3057.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. APWANewsletter-FUll Sheet-June05.pub Just as every man and woman carries wrinkles and creases of facial expressions ... sewers and streets with fractures and cracks, it is seldom that we would . kansas.apwa.net/kansas/documents/APWANewsletter-FU American Public Works Association Apparently a few years ago, the foundry that cast the bell originally in London proposed to the United States to ship the bell back to England and melt and recast it at their cost. This was seriously considered before deciding that this cracked bell of liberty is a cherished symbol of America's struggle for freedom. Just as every man and woman carries wrinkles and creases of facial expressions as a visible sign of the stresses and strains they survived, the Liberty Bell with it's prominent crack reminds us that our forefathers did not win liberty for the country without strain, stress, and even fractures. So, on behalf of the American people, the officials thanked the London foundry for the generous offer, but declined, adding, "We like the bell as it is, crack and all. It is an important part of our heritage." Although we in public works inherit much infrastructure like sanitary sewers and streets with fractures and cracks, it is seldom that we would say to our communities, "We like that sewer the way it is, or let's keep this street as is and not repair the potholes and wide cracks." We set out and repair the failures, and upgrade the inadequacies. But all of these improvements are made by those with the faces of experience that carry the laugh and frown lines of history in the public works arena. Without the people, the lessons they have learned, the stories they have heard from our predecessors, and without the knowledge of the causes they championed, we would be like the colonists before they achieved freedom. For instance, while many of us may not appreciate the original clay sewer pipe put in the ground by previous public works leaders, without the concept of the pipe, we would still be digging holes and moving around outhouses. So while we repair our old cracks wherever they are, remember the public works forefathers and how they literally paved the way for our successes today. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Lightweight modular, truss-deck bridge system - Patent 4120065 A modular bridge system constructed of parallel, side-by-side bridge modules ... its relatively deep corrugations to buckle, crack or unduly stretch. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4120065.html Lightweight modular, truss-deck bridge system United States Patent 4120065 A modular bridge system constructed of parallel, side-by-side bridge modules constructed of components made from large pitch and depth corrugated plate. Each module has an upper chord plate, which ultimately defines the corresponding part of the bridge deck, a spaced apart, parallel lower chord plate and an intermediate, sinusoidal support structure defined by webs which have a width substantially equal to the width of the chord plates so as to define a continuous lateral support for the upper chord plates at intermediate points over the length thereof. Load distributing ribs secured to the underside of the chord plates only are placed at unsupported portions of the upper chord plates between attachment points for the webs and have a width substantially equal to the combined width of all modules to tie the modules to each other and to distribute vehicular (point) loads over a relatively wide lateral extent of the chord plates. Also disclosed is a high strength mounting of lateral guard rails for the bridge, a method for constructing and erecting the modules, and the incorporation of the modules in more intricate bridge structures such as arch-type bridges. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www2b.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/archives/archive79/ newposts/1064/topic1064910.shtm Subject: re: going wrinkly post id: 1065131 It's not just the swelling with water thing, there's another important factor in the equation - the skin is attached to the tissues underneath, so an increase in the area of your skin due to it swelling up can't just make your fingers twice as fat. The skin swells up, expanding in all directions, but because it is attached at many points beneath the surface, it buckles and forms the wrinkles. Think of it like a bridge expanding on a hot day - if the bridge was built without expansion joints, the heating will cause the bridge to buckle between the anchored points that can't move (e.g. the two ends of the bridge that are fixed to the ground). In the same way, your skin won't just swell up smoothly, like it does if you have a sprain (in which case, the anchor points are swelling and moving apart from each other, so the skin doesn't need to buckle, and indeed gets streched tighter) so it buckles and goes wrinkly. Because the anchor-points are in soft tissues, though, they can be pushed about a little bit by the force of the swelling and buckling, to allow the increased surface area of the skin to exist - like if you got a flat bit of paper, and pushed the two ends together, the paper in the middle will bow out, except that in the case of the skin, it is the bowing out that draws the two ends of the paper together... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 48. Holy Shrines of Ohio - Tom Keske ======================================= .... ... Pass Pigeon Run and the Massillon Psychiatric ... http://www.usenet.com/newsgroups/rec.arts.poetry/msg00013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.klassischebucher.info/37727374313130/ch208.html Die Elf Kommodien Kapitel 208 SOCRATES. You talk nonsense, my good fellow. STREPSIADES. I will wager your tetrameter is the semisextarius.[ 531] SOCRATES. Plague seize the dunce and the fool! Come, perchance you will learn the rhythms quicker. STREPSIADES. Will the rhythms supply me with food? SOCRATES. You are as low-minded as you are stupid. STREPSIADES. But, wretched man, I do not want to learn all this. SOCRATES. Then what _do_ you want to know? STREPSIADES. Not that, not that, but the art of false reasoning. SOCRATES. But you must first learn other things. Come, what are the male quadrupeds? STREPSIADES. Oh! I know the males thoroughly. Do you take me for a fool then? The ram, the buck, the bull, the dog, the pigeon. SOCRATES. Do you see what you are doing; is not the female pigeon called the same as the male? STREPSIADES. How else? Come now? SOCRATES. How else? With you then 'tis pigeon and pigeon! STREPSIADES. 'Tis true, by Posidon! but what names do you want me to give them? SOCRATES. Term the female pigeonnette and the male pigeon. STREPSIADES. Pigeonnette! hah! by the Air! That's splendid! for that lesson bring out your kneading-trough and I will fill him with flour to the brim. SOCRATES. There you are wrong again; you make _trough_ masculine and it should be feminine. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16. Gusset Plates Implicated in Minneapolis Bridge Collapse Linked to ... .... Plates, one suspect in the Minneapolis Bridge collapse, were linked to a bridge failure in Ohio in 1996. Such plates are prone to corrosion, rust and fatigue cracks http://www.yourlawyer.com/articles/read/12999 ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4261284.html Document Type and Number: United States Patent 4261284 SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Many birds have eyes which are much superior to a human's eyes. Birds eyes enable them to identify dangerous prey or articles of food at great distance for survival purposes. Prior work to utilize the eyes of a pigeon was undertaken by Skinner during and subsequent to World War II. Skinner's research involved utilizing a trained pigeon in a transparent nosecone of a missile for guiding the missile to a target. There is no known research utilizing a bird, such as a pigeon for search purposes. As illustrated in FIGS. 2 through 7, a couch or cradle 50 may be mounted within each compartment for supporting a bird, such as a pigeon 52, with the head of the pigeon facing outwardly with respect to the observation chamber 28. As illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 6, the cradles 50 are positioned intermediate the height of the observation chamber so that there is provided bottom and top spacing. Further, as illustrated in FIG. 3, the cradles are positioned with a space between each cradle and the ring portion 34 of the chamber. As illustrated in FIG. 5, a cradle 50 may include an elongated arcuate support 54 which is connected in the aforementioned positions to respective bulkheads by gusset plates 56 and 58. These gusset plates are also spaced from the top and bottom of the chamber. Each arcuate member 54 of the cradle may be provided with padding 60 for the pigeon, and the pigeon may be held in place on the respective cradle by straps 62, these straps being secured at 64 by any suitable means such as Velcro. As illustrated in FIGS. 2, 3, 4 and 6, a tray 72, which is adapted to contain food for the pigeon, is provided within each compartment 36, 38 and 40. Means are mounted within each compartment for sliding the respective tray outwardly or inwardly, the outward position being capable of presenting food to the pigeon and the inward position being capable of withdrawing food from the pigeon. The outward and inward positions are illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 5. The tray sliding means may include an angled support plate 74 which is connected to the bottom inward portion of each respective gusset plate 58. A pair of guide rods 76 may be connected to the forward end of each support plate along opposite sides of the tray 72. The forward ends of the rods 76 may be connected by an angle plate 78 to the bottom of the respective gusset 58. A pair of bearing blocks 80 may be mounted at the rear on each side of a respective tray 72 for receiving the guide rods 76 so as to enable the outward and inward movements of the tray within a respective compartment. Each tray sliding means further includes a reversible power means, such as a reversible motor 82, which may be mounted on the top of a respective gusset plate 58 with its output shaft 84 extending downwardly therethrough. As illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 6, a pair of lever arms 86 and 88 may be provided, the lever arm 86 being connected to the output shaft 84 of the motor, the lever arm 88 being pivoted to the bottom of a respective tray 72 at 90, and the lever arms being pivotally connected together at 91. With this arrangement the reversible rotations of the motor 82 will slide the respective tray 72 outwardly and inwardly. The outer end of the gusset plate 58 may be hinged at 92, and a spring 93 may be provided for closing the end against the food tray 72. With this arrangement the gusset end can be raised to facilitate filling the food tray 72, and should a pigeon get his beak caught between the gusset plate and the tray when the tray is being withdrawn, the gusset end will spring upwardly to allow the pigeon to remove his beak. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.patentopedia.us/mask_with_gusset/ Mask with gusset Abstract A mask system for delivering air to a user includes a suspension mechanism to allow relative movement between a face-contacting cushion and a mask shell. The suspension mechanism also provides a predetermined force to the cushion that is a function of mask pressure, displacement of the cushion or both. Chiral 1, 3-dioxane compounds Chromogenic acridinone enzyme substrates Circuit for protecting storage cells Clay target/pigeon throwing machine Drain pan for vehicle axle Drain plug warning system Dry suit dryer Dual-output bridge for bidirectional control EAS ready paperboard Electric bulb for identification lamp Electric-powered compressor Electrical connector pick-up station Electrical insulating oils Electronic eyeball of doll Detachable suspension mounting Detection device including circuit component Detection of biological warfare agents Device for blow-molding containers Membrane fractionation process Memory control device ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.misc/browse_ thread/thread/154d92cbaac53633/510ffda0fa882041?lnk=st&q=quilts+ from+skunks+hollow+quilt+book&rnum=33&hl=en resistor forbear Hesse Pasteur hardware wrinkle etiology scripture tangential nitty originate shagbark tomorrow caloric lethal whereof ninety plausible Koppers fum squeeze Wells cerebrate gusset decide pigeon scrupulous venison terrific nautical boy dispelled conclave Jude sabbatical falsify upside parallelepiped hypocrisy Barton dangerous cotyledon cusp climatology polyphony creosote Rhoda glamor fiddlestick myeline point Sicily itch squeeze neap paddock Muscovite sill war nature giveaway idle conformal woodruff nation mascara barge Theodore infinitesimal Weldon berg baseline crosspoint rock Richmond responsive risen peal exorcise shareholder acronym corporeal penury meditate groin Dolan Medford opt regular dusky moonlit warmup cask bony subsumed salutation vicissitude shin Barry poetry arcsin slot liken neoconservative featherbrain Greene Lange Bolshevism junior azalea Avogadro prince bridgeable frank linger pithy Mohawk remorseful espousal bayonet cavort scurry zagging book boot USSR ski Desmond transoceanic drawbridge Huxtable spiky spiral Satan skulk hurty cheese fanciful joss tombstone heterosexual runabout faucet regretted calypso ox rhythm musicale Frankfurt postpaid funereal Walgreen upriver Daley Geneva chunk Kaskaskia solenoid peripheral electrode Charo fusion murk postprocessor pate circumflex terminus pyroelectric imitable vortex Heisenberg Siamese from elfin font uptrend urinal bricklayer concourse gather Kenyon Stafford whet sharpen Leninist smog coffeepot filibuster beryllium statesman fount bullyboy firecracker Ezekiel deify aircraft voltmeter greylag prospectus phosphoric zesty ------------------------------------------------------------------ 17. The Dark Elf Trilogy/The Crystal Shard - Realms of Fantasy ... The Dark Elf Trilogy/The Crystal Shard What We're Reading Now. forums.rofmagazine.com/showthread.php?t=3422 ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.crystal.vt.edu/crystal/VTX_2006_report.pdf The Virginia Tech Crystallography Laboratory is a co-located facility of the Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Geosciences, within the College of Science. The mission of VTX is three-fold ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.vtmagazine.vt.edu/spring99/classnotes.html Brian K. Diefenderfer (CE) received an M.S. in civil engineering from Virginia Tech. He is pursuing a Ph.D. at Virginia Tech in civil engineering (257 Patomac Heights, Hagerstown, MD 21742). Christine M. Luma (CE) was appointed manager of business development-acroline thermoplastic sheets and liners in the corrosion engineering department of ELF Atochem ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006PCM....33..138B ELF isosurface maps for the Al2SiO5 polymorphs Affiliation: AA(Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech), AB(Departments of Geosciences, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mathematics , Virginia Tech), AC(Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech), AD(Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech) This study examines the electron localization function (ELF) isosurfaces of the Al2SiO5 polymorphs kyanite, sillimanite, and andalusite to see how differences in coordination and geometry of the cations and anions affect the ELF isosurfaces. Examination of the ELF isosurfaces indicates that their shapes are dependent on the coordination and geometry of the oxygen atoms and are not sensitive to coordination of the surrounding cations. Of the 18 crystallographically distinct oxygen atoms in the Al2SiO5 polymorphs, 13 are bonded to two aluminum atoms The four-fold coordinated oxygen (Al4 O) contains two concave hemispherical isosurfaces along the shorter Al O bonds and a banana-shaped isosurface, which encompasses the longer Al O bonds. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.vtmagazine.vt.edu/fall98/profile.html At 83, lively as an elf, Knobler rolls off to the fifth-graders names of legendary black players he's seen Twice a year, he visits Virginia Tech, where he is a member of the College of Engineering's advisory Committee of 100, the Materials Science Engineering advisory council, and Ut Prosim Society. "Who made this country?" he asks, and you feel he's asked and answered his rhetorical question over many tables and many years. "The poor people made it--people who came here for a better life. Look at Virginia Tech. It was the same way. When I came to Tech, it was mostly poor kids trying to make it--bright kids who were first generation college." I support unions; workers need someone to look out for their needs," Knobler says "I knew the people these buildings were named for," he says. Materials Engineering professor Dan Pletta and YMCA Secretary Paul Derring were his favorites. They could talk for hours about social causes, as well as academics. In Derring especially, Knobler found a kindred spirit with a concern for justice and social action. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.pigeonpoint.com/pdf/ShelfManagerUG_2_4_1_20070115.pdf Pigeon Point Shelf Manager User Guide This document describes the overall configuration and use of the Pigeon Point Shelf Manager. Pigeon Point Shelf Manager External Interface Reference This document describes how to use the Shelf Manager command line interface, the web interface, the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) interface and the Remote Management Control Protocol (RMCP) interface. The Pigeon Point ShMM, when coupled with a corresponding carrier board, provides the necessary hardware to run the Shelf Manager within an ATCA shelf. This document focuses on aspects of the Shelf Manager and ShMM that are common to any ShMM carrier used in an AdvancedTCA context. Carrier-specific and shelf-specific details are documented by shelf providers. The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification provides a solid foundation for the management of such platforms, but requires significant extension to support them well ------------------------------------------------------------------ Pigeons took toll on failed Minnesota freeway span - International Herald Tribune Pigeons took toll on failed Minnesota freeway span. The Associated Press ... bolts and cracking steel, the failed Minnesota bridge over the Mississippi River . http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/22/america/NA-GEN-... ST. PAUL, Minnesota: Pounded and strained by heavy traffic and weakened by missing bolts and cracking steel, the failed Minnesota bridge over the Mississippi River also faced a less obvious enemy: Birds. Inspectors began documenting the buildup of pigeon dung on the span near downtown Minneapolis two decades ago. Experts say the corrosive guano deposited all over the span's framework helped the steel beams rust faster. Pigeon droppings contain ammonia and acids, said chemist Neal Langerman, an officer with the health and safety division of the American Chemical Society. If the dung is not washed away, it dries out and turns into a concentrated salt. When water gets in and combines with the salt and ammonia, it creates small electrochemical reactions that rust the steel underneath. "Every time you get a little bit of moisture there, you wind up having a little bit of electrochemistry occurring and you wind up with corrosion," said Langerman. "Over a long term, it might in fact cause structural weaknesses." ------------------------------------------------------------------ 30. Publicaton Effect of metal binding on the structural stability of pigeon liver malic enzyme. ... G. G. (2001) Multiphasic unfolding intermediates of . http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~wwwenz/publication/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ 55. Muhammad the Greatest page 18 charged that the Holy Prophet had trained pigeons to pick out peas from his ears, so that he could by this trick bluff his people that the Holy Ghost in the shape of a dove was muhammad.net/mg/muhammadG18.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16. Minnesota Pigeon People I got these two pigeons for sale if you want to buy them call me 651-999-9637 http ... Winona/Wabasha State: Minnesota Phone: Email: . pigeon.mattjohnson.com/ THE PIGEON BOARD BUY, SELL, RESCUE & ANYTHING PIGEON http://www.pigeonboard.com Joe Hartman - Pigeon Board Monitor ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.emrpolicy.org/science/forum/adey_encneuro_emfs.pdf 2.1.1 Detection of extremely low frequency fields For ELF fields, models based on joint static-oscillating magnetic fields have been proposed. They include ion cyclotron resonance (Liboff, 1992), where mono- and divalent cations, such as potassium and calcium, abundant in the cellular environment, may exhibit cyclotron resonance at ELF frequencies in the presence of ambient static fields of less than 100 microT Bibliographic References Electromagnetic fields, the modulation of brain tissue functions - A possible paradigm shift in biology [schumann, 1957] Schumann, WO (1957): Uber elektrische Eigenschwindungen der Hohlraumes Erd-Luft-Ionosphare erregt durch Blitzentladungen. Zeits Angew J Phys 9:373?378 [semm, 1983] Semm P (1983): Neurobiological investigations on the magnetic sensitivity of the pineal gland in rodents and pigeons. Comp Biol Physiol 159:619?625 Moser et al., 1992] Moser CC, Keske JM, Warncke K, et al. (1992): Nature of biological electron transfer. Nature 355:796-802 ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/silenceg.htm The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe Some human memories and tearful lore, Render him terrorless: his name's "No More." He is the corporate Silence: dread him not! No power hath he of evil in himself; But should some urgent fate (untimely lot!) Bring thee to meet his shadow (nameless elf, That haunteth the lone regions where hath trod No foot of man,) commend thyself to God! ------------------------------------------------------------------ 9. The ELF God - Mind Control Technology and Harassment The ELF God, military technology that can mimmick God's voice. Learn about ELF technology, harassment and the New World Order http://www.thewatcherfiles.com/sherry/elf-god.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Blue Elf and Associates your wireless wizards Wyndham Dallas North By the Galleria 4801 LBJ Freeway Dallas, Texas 75244 Opportunity Provide seamless Internet access for guests via ubiquitous yet economical wireless network deployment Challenges and Requirements Bridging Between Buildings - The University of the South's primary goal was to inter-connect campus buildings. In keeping with cost containment, two primary obstacles existed. First, the University is situated in the mountains with most buildings surrounded by dense foliage. Second, thick stone building construction existed, making antenna placement difficult. Limited In-Building Coverage - For those buildings being bridged onto the campus network, the University desired future Wi-Fi access for students, faculty and staff. Initially however, the University did NOT want to activate the Wi-Fi access. The challenge was to provide the bridging and limit the Wi-Fi access through the use of a single wireless networking device. Through simple command line interface, this access will be activated, building-by-building as required. Devices - The University's connectivity requirements included students, faculty and staff members who would utilize virtually any 802.11b device. Coverage patterns for all locations were to support 11 Mbps transfer rates. Security - The University was deploying a centralized Authentication Server (AS) for both wired and wireless users. The wireless Wi-Fi users were NOT to utilize WEP or WPA in those areas where connectivity was being openly provided. Select users, including faculty and staff were to be equipped with Virtual Private Networking (VPN) software for selective secure access. The bridged building links were to be given unique parameters, which provided a level of security, encryption and generally limited user connectivity, until such time as the University desired to activate access. Specifically, Blue Elf proposed ViVato's 802.11b Wi-Fi Bridge Router. This versatile device (equipped with dual 200 mW radios) permits quality outdoor point-to-point bridging solutions, as well as expanded indoor coverage solutions. Through creative omni, yagi and patch antenna usage, unique solutions were deployed on a building-by-building basis. ViVato's Wireless Distribution System (WDS) software was extensively utilized throughout the installation, to reduce the use of cabled network connections. ViVato's Power over Ethernet (PoE) feature also allowed for equipment deployment in locations where providing power would have been extremely difficult Blue Elf overcame Wyndham's financial budget considerations by designing a truly cost effective Wi-Fi solution. The solution equipment included eleven high-powered dual 200mW RF (radio frequency) bridge/router devices. These devices, effectively representing twenty-two wireless Access Points, were directly connected to the existing Local Area Network in a single location via "home run" cabling. No power was required at each location as Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) was employed. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't be a conspiracy theorist. Be a conspiracy. ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Mind Control-The Ultimate Terror A method was discovered to disable these ELF towers from exerting their mind control functions by placing a simple device known as an orgone generator within a radius of 1,300 feet of these. educate-yourself.org/mc/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.freewebs.com/spiderman123456/moviebookreferences.htm The Littlest Elf Do you have well armed friends? He does! Movie references: The cartoon at the beginning is a Littlest Elf cartoon. On the way to Aunt Josephine's house, Mr Poe is playing the Littlest Elf music on his reel-to-reel. The song at the end of the end credits is the full Littlest Elf song. Book references: The Unauthorised Autobiography There is an excerpt from a Littlest Elf storybook. The Austere Academy On the cover band for this book, it quotes Olaf as saying:"I prefer the Littlest Elf." The Hostile Hospital Snicket writes: If you like books about giggling elves, read the Littlest Elf (Or something to that extent.). Those were all the ones I could find. Email me if you find any others. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-42488833.html Group satirizes globalization, salutes eco-terrorism at Virginia Tech The four-person Turning Point Roadshow on Globalization gave a presentation featuring skits, songs and slides at Virginia Tech in room 219 of McBryde Hall. "There's nothing quite so lovely as a Walmart on fire," sang Rovics who said he was describing ELF's practice of burning down structures that they ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://naturalscientist.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html Wednesday, July 25, 2007 More Modern Fairy Tales: No Adventures Here I had a whole long story worked up about a perilous journey to the All-Elf Meeting, and the various trials and tribulations along the way, complete with a choose-your-own adventure encounter with the bridgekeeper which ended in various disastrous ways. But! Yesterday I had an extremely peculiar and entirely unexpected conversation with my advisor over lunch, and the adventure is canceled in favor of a mainly pleasant surprise. So here's Version 2: Now With Less Adventure. Monday, July 23, 2007 Why To Be An Electrician 'The drain is making noises,' Bert said to me yesterday. 'Do you think it's chicken again?' 'Did you look under the sink?' I asked. 'What? You can look under the sink?' he said. After the unfortunate Chicken Incident, you see, our long- suffering plumbers replaced the metal pipes with clear plastic. Which is why we were able to see: five metal spatulas, three stir-bars, several unidentified bits of centrifuge tubes, and the requisite blob of brown gook. The plumber is currently plungering the sink, to very little effect. Ooh, he's opening up the main standpipe now. At least... this time it's not chicken. (Continued) (Fold Back Up) ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. A Natural Scientist: More Modern Fairy Tales: No Adventures Here Under that bridge there was a Gatekeeper. Now this Gatekeeper had been there as ... the elf was more determined than ever that she would cross that bridge. naturalscientist.blogspot.com/2007/07/more- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Pictures of under the bridge - power shot s200 digital elf Camera .... wasn't sure how to crop this. i thought it was odd. ... Project N/A Camera Model power shot s200 digital elf . http://www.usefilm.com/image/103627.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ 53. Make a Meaningful Bridge for a Bridging Ceremony .... to Juniors, they made a "bridge of hands" under which each girl passed, one at a time. ... and turn me and show me the elf, I looked in the mirror and saw. . http://www.neighborhood13-1.com/pdf/Making%20Meaningful%2... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.atlasbooks.com/marktplc/00411.htm Part 2 is a play called "The Inn of the Seventh Sorrow." Two American men, Rob and Elf, are in Shanghai- then Elf goes to the mountains with Ellen Quimby, a funny looking old friend. Elf feels, throughout, that fate brings you to a bridge...but you can choose to turn away. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/djbbooks/ I have always been a fan of Fantasy stories, Poetry, and Role Playing Games such as Dungeons and Dragons, Vampire, Werewolf, Shadow Run, and Gothis Punk. I recently finished reading the book Fairy Reel. My favorite poet/author is Edgar Allen Poe. Lazmora's Dance is a Fantasy Novel based on a RPG character I created for the game Metal Soul. He is an Elf who seeks to change the past. His intentions are for self purpose and could have a devistating affect on the world if he should complete his mission as he intends it. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16. Hehe pelican PWNs pigeon (High Elf Forum) .... minutes to swallow the pigeon, with it flapping and squirming the whole way. s8.invisionfree.com/High_Elf_Forum/ar/t2389.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ 19. MySpace.com - Storm Elf - 20 - Female - GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania - http://www.myspace.com... MySpace profile for Storm Elf with pictures, videos, personal blog, interests, ... Marian [is a pigeon-eyed devil woman] View All of Storm Elf 's Friends ... http://www.myspace.com/73936881 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 24. TELL-A-STORY BOOK A) SNEEZING POWDER B) THE WALLPAPER BUNNIES C) THE SNOW-WHITE PIGEON D) THE GOSSAMER ELF G) CLEVER-ONE THE IMP BLYTON Enid ... http://www.greenmeadowbooks.co.uk/si/13314.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Randomly generated Period Insults Thou bawdy elf-skinned pigeon-egg!! Thou unmuzzled rude-growing harpy!! Thou dissembling clapper-clawed harpy!! Thou villainous hedge-born malt-worm!! Thou warped knotty-pated mammet! members.iconn.net/~gedney/randominsult.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pillagoda/ch17-01.htm The Jacobite Circle used to meet at Chester, where a stage chaise service was started on 18.6.1750 from the "Three Pigeons" Inn, Bridge Street to the "Castle and Falcon" Inn, Aldersgate. The mail coach service lasted till 1837. The name of the inn is intriguing as the as the Winters' crest was "a falcon or rising from a tower imbatched argent". Dupont, proprietor of the "Castle and Falcon", attended the Spa Fields Chapel and allowed the Evangelists to meet at his Inn. The City of London Electric Company was built there in 1924 and the old cellars still remained then. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 78. The Kith of the Elf-Folk Then the last pigeon went home to the trees on the dry land in the distance, whose shapes already ... moves as the Wild Thing moves; they have no souls, and cannot die, and are of the kith http://www.geocities.com/kerrdelune/kith.html The Kith of the Elf-Folk Lord Dunsany The north wind was blowing, and red and golden the last days of Autumn were streaming hence. Solemn and cold over the marshes arose the evening. It became very still. Then the last pigeon went home to the trees on the dry land in the distance, whose shapes already had taken upon themselves a mystery in the haze. Then all was still again. As the light faded and the haze deepened, mystery crept nearer from every side. The Wild Things are somewhat human in appearance, only all brown of skin and barely two feet high. Their ears are pointed like the squirrel's, only far larger, and they leap to prodigious heights. Then something akin to discontent troubled the Wild Thing for the first time since the making of the marshes; and the soft gray ooze and the chill of the deep water seemed to be not enough, nor the first arrival from northwards of the tumultuous geese, nor the wild rejoicing of the wings of the wildfowl when every feather sings, nor the wonder of the calm ice that comes when the snipe depart and beards the rushes with frost and clothes the hushed waste with a mysterious haze where the sun goes red and low, nor even the dance of the Wild Things in the marvelous night; and the little Wild Thing longed to have a soul, and to go and worship God. At last the day of the Opera came round, and it was a cold day of the winter. And Signorina Russiano appeared on the stage before a crowded house. And Signorina Russiano sang. And into the song went all the longing of her soul, the soul that could not go to Paradise, but could only worship God and know the meaning of music, and the longing pervaded that Italian song as the infinite mystery of the hills is borne along the sound of distant sheep-bells. Then in the souls that were in that crowded house arose little memories of a great while since that were quite, quite dead, and lived awhile again during that marvelous song. And it felt the good dank air that clothes by night the broad East Anglian lands, and came again to some old perilous pool where the soft green mosses grew, and there plunged downward and downward into the dear dark water till it felt the homely ooze once more coming up between its toes. Thence, out of the lovely chill that is in the heart of the ooze, it arose renewed and rejoicing to dance upon the image of the stars. I chanced to stand that night by the marsh's edge, forgetting in my mind the affairs of men; and I saw the marsh-fires come leaping up from all the perilous places. And they came up by flocks the whole night long to the number of a great multitude, and danced away together over the marshes. And I believe that there was a great rejoicing all that night among the kith of the Elf-folk. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.allenvarney.com/ed_elf.html Over the decades, in lethal secrecy, Alachia has enlisted a few uncorrupted elves, never more than a dozen at a time, as spies. The Blood Queen and her most intimate confidantes call them "Songbirds." Initially the Queen drew these elves (high-Circle thieves, illusionists, and troubadours) with the promise of high pay, but when they arrived in the Blood Wood, she secured their loyalty using her irresistible wiles. She sent them separately into the Theran Empire and elsewhere in Barsaive. Now they report back to her via carrier pigeon, diplomatic missives, or magical devices. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 80. Allen Varney: Earthdawn Legends (Elf) Dedicated dwarf folklorists have collected the occasional elf story, notably Dacurius's Elven Myth ... Now they report back to her via carrier pigeon, diplomatic missives, or magical device. http://www.allenvarney.com/ed_elf.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf_(Discworld) Elves have copper-based, blue-green blood, and are extremely vulnerable to iron. This is partly because there is no way of magicking iron, and partly that they have the ability to detect magnetic fields, and use them to navigate (as pigeons are thought to do) and even sense the thoughts of others from short distances. The presence of iron disrupts this and sends them into a panic. The main gateway to the world of Elves in Lancre is surrounded by several large boulders of naturally magnetised meteoric iron. Elves are ruled by a King and Queen. They act much the same as the King and Queen in chess, the Queen is the most obvious ruler, organising the raiding parties and maintaining absolute control of her kingdom. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-21916436.html U. Minnesota graduate testifies before grand jury Minnesota Daily) (U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS -- Kevin Kjonaas, an Animal Liberation Front spokesman, appeared before a federal grand jury hearing Monday at U.S. District Court in downtown Minneapolis. Kjonaas came under intense scrutiny in April when he spoke on behalf of the ALF, the international animal rights' organization that claimed responsibility for extensive damage in a dozen University of Minnesota research labs. Five vandals, who later identified themselves through an e-mail message, also released more than 100 lab mice, rats, pigeons and ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 16. ABC News: FBI Responds to Minneapolis Bridge Disaster The FBI is sending an evidence response team and other personnel to Minneapolis in support of the investigation into Wednesday's massive bridge collapse. ... abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3440891&page=1 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Possible design flaw found in collapsed U.S. bridge - Yahoo! News .... to recover evidence, (and) any (human) remains," Minneapolis Police Capt. Mike ... Pigeon dung examined in bridge collapse AP, 25 minutes ago . news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070808/ts_nm/bridge_collapse ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.speakeasy.org/%7Etdjohnsn/gamesweb/etek20.html The Eye of The Elf King Chapter 20: The Red Goblin They are soon across the canal and in the main current which pulls them quickly under a bridge and to where another canal merges with the first. Underneath is a slogan. "The star of the east shall rise again!" While the two men dump bodies into the canal, Sapphire has been using a shovel to scoop entrails other evidence into a bucket which she has them dump over the wall as well. While they are doing that she goes back through the green door and comes out with a jar of white powder and a watering can. Under her arm is tucked a paper bag full of something. She sprinkles the powder on the worst of the blood stains and pours water over it. The powder hisses and throws fumes. "Etching powder. Help get rid of the evidence." She then spreads the contents of the paper bag about the courtyard. It is bread crumbs. "I usually keep these for the ducks. I hate pigeons as a general rule, but a flock of them will cover a lot of evidence!" As the two men follow her into her home, they can see the first of the pigeons arriving to investigate the crumbs. Boris is not particularly interested in the art but he is friendly and appreciative. As the conversation concludes, "Perhaps we can repay you somehow, for helping us with the evidence...did I say that the pigeons were an excellent idea, and patching up our wounds, and especially for a new shirt." ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_wsd_sec180.htm Chapter 19 - 180. The Gardens and the Shrine. A Day in Old Athens, by William Stearns Davis (1910) Professor of Ancient History at the University of Minnesota 180. The Gardens and the Shrine.--Did we wish to linger, we could be shown the barnyard with its noisy retinue of hens, pheasants, guinea fowl, and pigeons; and we would be asked to admire the geese, cooped up and being gorged for fattening, or the stately peacocks preening their splendors. We would also hear sage disquisitions from the "oldest inhabitants" on the merits of fertilizers, especially on the uses of mixing seaweed with manure, also we would be told of the almost equally important process of burying a toad in a sealed jar in the midst of a field to save the corn from the crows and the field mice. Hybrias laughs at such superstitions--"but what can you say to the rustics?" Hybrias himself will display with more refined pride the gardens used by his wife and children when they come out from Athens,--a fountain feeding a delightful rivulet; myrtles, roses, and pomegranate trees shedding their perfumes, which are mingled with the odors from the beds of hyacinths, violets, and asphodel. In the center of the gardens rises a chaste little shrine with a marble image and an altar, always covered with flowers or fruit by the mistress and her women. "To Artemis," reads the inscription, and one is sure that the virgin goddess takes more pleasure in this fragrant temple than in many loftier fanes ------------------------------------------------------------------ 88. City Pages - Stool Pigeons Did the feces of feathered fiends cause the I-35W bridge collapse? ... Gaming the System How a Minnesota magazine became the bible of generation Xbox (Aug 1, 2007) citypages.com/databank/28/1393/article15753.asp ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/05/america/NA-ODD-US- Republican-Convention-Pigeons.php Cleanup plan for Republican convention in Minnesota includes getting rid of pigeon poop The Associated PressPublished: April 5, 2007 ST. PAUL, Minnesota: Pigeon poop has long sullied downtown St. Paul sidewalks, but the slippery, smelly mess is gaining urgency with the Republican National Convention coming to town next year. ------------------------------------------------------------------ https://host2.minnesotashopper.net/thechinadoll/ anniefeedingthepigeons.htm The China Doll Porcelain Dolls & Miniatures Beautiful handmade miniature porcelain dolls by Connie Sauve, The China Doll, IGMA Fellow. ... SPECIAL ORDER. Annie Feeding the Pigeons Scene Annie comes complete with everything you see, The China Doll SPECIAL ORDER Annie Feeding the Pigeons Annie comes with the bench, two pigeons on her lap, and an open bag of birdseed. $550 Here is a closeup of Annie's face Annie's pigeons on her lap. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://store.milesofmusic.com/H/Peter_Himmelman/46965.html The Pigeons Couldnt Sleeps 13 tracks range from blistering and bluesy house-shakers to ballads of tender urgency. The album begins with a haunted slide-guitar passage by Himmelman (whose guitar prowess shouldnt be underestimated) and ends with the gospel tinged `If We Could Hold Each Others Hunger,` about the power of empathy. In between, Himmelman proffers such powerful songs as `Gratitude,` `War of Words` and `The Ship of Last Hope.` The songs on this self-produced album started as sketches, which Himmelman developed until they were `finished paintings.` The CD comes bundled with a DVD, a feature-length documentary, Rock God. The 65-minute film begins in the 70s with footage of Himmelmans notorious Minnesota new wave band, Sussman Lawrence. (Himmasongs) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Amino acid transport by resealed ghosts from pigeon erythrocytes. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1158154 Biochem J. 1982 March 15; 202(3): 613?621. Copyright notice Amino acid transport by resealed ghosts from pigeon erythrocytes. K P Wheeler ABSTRCT Resealed ghosts from pigeon erythrocytes were shown to haemolyse during incubation in isotonic media with pH values greater than about 7 and high concentrations of Na+ inside the ghosts seemed to enhance this effect. At lower pH values the ghosts were stable but still highly permeable to Na+ and K+, and moderately permeable to sucrose. Under the latter conditions the ghosts transported amino acids in a way qualitatively but not quantitatively similar to intact erythrocytes. The Na+-dependent transport of serine and alanine by the ghosts consisted essentially of an exchange of extracellular for intracellular amino acids, with no significant net flux. In contrast, net fluxes of glycine in the direction of the Na+-concentration gradient across the ghost membrane were demonstrated. However, under one condition a small net influx of glycine occurred against the prevailing Na+-concentration gradient. Unlike Na+- dependent glycine uptake, the uptake of six other amino acids by intact pigeon erythrocytes was not influenced by the nature of the anion present. The significance of these findings in relation to previous work on the Na+-gradient hypothesis of membrane transport is discussed. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 22. Fatty acid synthetase from pigeon red blood cells. Sign Up To Receive Medscape Best Evidence Key journal articles ranked for newsworthiness and ... Fatty acid synthetase from pigeon red http://www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/6786930 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Synthesis of Triacetic Acid Lactone by the Pigeon Liver Fatty Acid ... The synthesis of triacetic acid lactone (TAL) is effected by purified soluble pigeon liver fatty acid synthetase. This enzyme system synthesizes TAL from ... http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/243/20/5471 The synthesis of triacetic acid lactone (TAL) is effected by purified soluble pigeon liver fatty acid synthetase. This enzyme system synthesizes TAL from acetyl coenzyme A and malonyl coenzyme A in the absence of TPNH, and synthesizes palmitic acid in the presence of TPNH. The major product of the reaction in the absence of TPNH is TAL, and not free triacetic acid. Presumably triacetic acid, bound as a thioester to the 4'- phosphopantetheine prosthetic group of the fatty acid synthetase, is an intermediate in the formation of TAL. The latter compound is formed from 1 mole of acetyl-CoA and 2 moles of malonyl-CoA in the sequence, acetate-malonate-malonate (proceeding left to right from the methyl end of the molecule). ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Fridaycities - Pigeon Acid: a (fairly lazy) Fridaycities investigation The anti-pigeon foot-acid does seem to be pretty much confined to the foul imagination of a bunch of sickos. Phew. But that still leaves one problem: Why do london.fridaycities.com/radar/2007/7/25/pigeon ------------------------------------------------------------------ Pages tagged with "acid" on del.icio.us so apparently Pigeon guano may have taken down the bridge in minneapolis. save this. by jnollette to bridge shit poop pigeon acid collapse minneapolis river del.icio.us/tag/acid ------------------------------------------------------------------ 25. Ammonium and Guanidinium Functionalized Hydrogels as Bile Acid ... or secondary) using a readily available guanylating agent in aqueous medium. Incorporation of guanidinium groups to these polymers occurs under mild taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/NG4NGJCRFCBAK ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. A NEWT ONE- THE ORIGINAL MOONBAT SLAYERS Melissa Hortman of the Minnesota House of Representatives ' speculated that 90 ... So filled with partisan bile and pure, toxic venom, they always eventually wind http://www.anewtone.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ttp://www.pharmcast.com/Patents/Yr2001/Sept2001/092501/6294163_ BileAcid092501.htm The present invention relates to a polymer composition comprising polymers containing a guanidinium moiety and to a method of using the guanidinium moiety-containing polymers for sequestering bile acids in a patient. In one aspect, the guanidinium moiety is found within the backbone of the polymer. In this aspect, the polymer backbone comprises at least two atoms of the guanidinium group. In another aspect, the guanidinium moiety-containing polymer compositions comprise polymers with guanidinium substituents which are pendant from the backbone. For example, the polymer can comprise an aliphatic backbone bearing pendant guanidinium groups which can be further substituted. Guanidinium ions form characteristic pairs of zwitterionic hydrogen bonds with carboxylate anions. This type of binding, which combines electrostatic interactions and hydrogen bonded structural organization, can lead to enhanced binding strength. Additionally, the combination of electrostatic and ionic hydrogen bonding ability can enable such guanidinium moiety- containing polymer compositions to be more selective anion receptors for carboxylate anions such as bile acid salts. Since increased binding strength and selectivity is indicative of increased efficacy, the guanidinium moiety-containing polymer compositions of the invention represent an improvement over certain known bile acid sequestrants. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Pigeon pea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pigeon peas are nutritionally important, as they contain high levels of protein and the important amino acids methionine, lysine, and tryptophan. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_pea ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id= 7132352 Energy Citations Database 560300 -- Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology; ARACHIDONIC ACID-- BIOCHEMISTRY;ARACHIDONIC ACID-- METABOLITES;DUSTS-- BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS;DUSTS-- INHALATION;LUNGS-- HISTOLOGY; COTTON;IN VITRO;IN VIVO;MACROPHAGES;PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES;RATS;TRITIUM COMPOUNDS It was considered that the fall in lung function seen after exposure to cotton dust may be attributable in part to the activity of arachidonic acid metabolites, such as leucotrienes as well as to the more established release of histamine by cotton dust. However, we found that cotton and barley dusts elicited poor release of arachidonic acid from an established macrophage like cell line compared with that observed with other organic dusts.^ In the experimental animal, pulmonary cellular responses to both cotton and barley dust were similar to those evoked by moldy hay and pigeon dropping dusts, although after multiple doses a more severe response was seen to cotton and barely Since both moldy hay and pigeon droppings elicit a greater arachidonic acid release than cotton or barley, a role for arachidonic acid in inducing the cellular response is less likely than other factors. There are limitations to our conclusions using this system, i.e., the arachidonic acid may be released in a nonmetabolized form, although it is noted that the two dusts with the greatest arachidonic acid release produce their clinical responses in humans largely by hypersensitivity mechanisms. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Cotton Disease Descriptions - Rust True cotton rust is quite distinct from the "rust" caused by potash deficiency. ... Later, large orange pustules appear on the lower leaf surface and discharge orange spores ... plantpathology.tamu.edu/Texlab/Fiber/Cotton/cr.htm... ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Pigeon dung cited in bridge rust -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com ST. PAUL, Minn. Pounded and strained by heavy traffic and weakened by missing bolts and cracking steel, the failed interstate bridge over the Mississippi http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-flabridg... ------------------------------------------------------------------ MySpace.com - The Simian Line - Perth, AU - Alternative / Rock ... Sounds Like, A nest of howling pigeons on acid... View The Simian Line's EPK ? View The Simian Line's EPK. Record Label, Cartel Music (Green - MGM) . profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.view... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/eapoe/bl-eapoe-thou.htm The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1850) by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Truth is stranger than fiction. OLD SAYING. He observed a flock of pigeons passing betwixt Frankfort and the Indian territory, one mile at least in breadth; it took up four hours in passing, which, at the rate of one mile per minute, gives a length of 240 miles; and, supposing three pigeons to each square yard, gives 2,230,272,000 Pigeons.?"Travels in Canada and the United States," by Lieut. F. Hall. "Oh fy!" said the king. "'No sooner had we got rid of these birds, which occasioned us great annoyance, than we were terrified by the appearance of a fowl of another kind, and infinitely larger than even the rocs which I met in my former voyages; for it was bigger than the biggest of the domes on your seraglio, oh, most Munificent of Caliphs. This terrible fowl had no head that we could perceive, but was fashioned entirely of belly, which was of a prodigious fatness and roundness, of a soft-looking substance, smooth, shining and striped with various colors. In its talons, the monster was bearing away to his eyrie in the heavens, a house from which it had knocked off the roof, and in the interior of which we distinctly saw human beings, who, beyond doubt, were in a state of frightful despair at the horrible fate which awaited them. We shouted with all our might, in the hope of frightening the bird into letting go of its prey, but it merely gave a snort or puff, as if of rage and then let fall upon our heads a heavy sack which proved to be filled with sand!'" Analogous experiments in respect to sound produce analogous results. (5) Place a platina crucible over a spirit lamp, and keep it a red heat; pour in some sulphuric acid, which, though the most volatile of bodies at a common temperature, will be found to become completely fixed in a hot crucible, and not a drop evaporates- being surrounded by an atmosphere of its own, it does not, in fact, touch the sides. A few drops of water are now introduced, when the acid, immediately coming in contact with the heated sides of the crucible, flies off in sulphurous acid vapor, and so rapid is its progress, that the caloric of the water passes off with it, which falls a lump of ice to the bottom; by taking advantage of the moment before it is allowed to remelt, it may be turned out a lump of ice from a red-hot vessel. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Pigeon Health Care .... the blame on them rather than the sulphur dioxide of car exhausts and acid rain. ... To many they are a symbol of Peace, Love and the Spirit of God. ... http://www.pigeoncote.com/vet/recovery/recovery.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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