DEADLY HUMANS









PETA launched a controversial campaign portraying a shark chomping a man to death with the tagline "Payback Is Hell, Go Vegan."
"With the recent shark attack in the news, we thought that it was a good time to bring this discussion up that will hopefully save lives, both human and animals," PETA Campaign Manager Ashley Byrne told The Huffington Post.
The intent of the campaign? To make the point that the deadliest killers in the water aren't sharks -- they're humans.
"Sharks are not the most dangerous predators on Earth, we are. Americans alone kill billions of animals for food every year, including fish. And while sharks are natural carnivores, people can choose what they eat," said Byrne.
An average of five people per year are killed by sharks, but fishing fleets kill up to 70 million sharks per year, says an annual report by the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File. "The sea is actually very forgiving, certainly from the standpoint of the animal life," said George Burgess, the University of Florida's Shark Attack File Director.
According to the International Shark Attack File, 623 unprovoked shark attacks have occurred in Florida since 1882, with only 11 fatalities.

IT'S STILL SEPTEMBER


A beautiful song, beautifully sung by a beautiful, beautiful man.

THE PACMAN NEBULA

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High-mass stars are important because they are responsible for much of the energy pumped into our galaxy over its lifetime. Unfortunately, these stars are poorly understood because they are often found relatively far away and can be obscured by gas and dust. The star cluster NGC 281 is an exception to this rule. It is located about 6,500 light years from Earth and, remarkably, almost 1,000 light years above the plane of the galaxy, giving astronomers a nearly unfettered view of the star formation within it. This composite image of NGC 281 contains X-ray data from Chandra, in purple, with infrared observations from Spitzer, in red, green, blue. The high-mass stars in NGC 281 drive many aspects of their galactic environment through powerful winds flowing from their surfaces and intense radiation that creates charged particles by stripping electrons off atoms. The eventual deaths of massive stars as supernovas will also seed the galaxy with material and energy. NGC 281 is known informally as the "Pacman Nebula" because of its appearance in optical images. In optical images the "mouth" of the Pacman character appears dark because of obscuration by dust and gas, but in the infrared Spitzer image the dust in this region glows brightly. NGC 281 is typically divided into two subregions: the region in the upper middle of the image, which is surrounded by the purple 10-million-degree gas, and a younger region in the lower part of the image. There is evidence that the formation of a cluster, appearing in a beige cloud to the lower right, was triggered by a previous generation of star formation. Also, astronomers have found some isolated star formation on the left side of the image that appears to have been occurring at the same time as star formation in other regions of the cluster. This supports the idea that something externally triggered the "baby boom" of stars in NGC 281. Image Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/S.Wolk; IR: NASA/JPL/CfA/S.Wolk

SINGING/DANCE BREAK



Make sure and stay for all the incredible dancing.

OUTSTANDING ART DECO MASTERPIECE


 Important Satinwood Art Deco Period Credenza
France
1940's
Important satinwood Art Deco period credenza in the manner of Jules Leleu, inlaid with mother of pearl and exotic wood decorations, the center fitted with 4 shagreen clad doors and decorated with gilt mount bronze.
Price
$25,500
Condition*
Very Good
Measurements
height: 34 in.
depth: 18 in.
width/length: 6 ft.
Specifications
Number of items: 1
Materials/Techniques: Satinwood, Mother of Pearls, Exotic Wood, Shagreen & Gilt Bronze
Creator: unknown
Photography
provided by Milord Antiques
Affiliation
CADA Association

Location
Milord Antiques
1870 Notre-Dame St. West
Montreal, QC, H3J-1M6
Phone: 514-933-2433
E-Mail: showroom@milordantiques.com

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YOU GO GIRL!


The top U.S. marginal tax rate -- 35 percent -- is low by the standards of developed countries. It's about 51 percent in Britain, 47.5 percent in Germany, and 40 percent in France. Until recently, Denmark's highest tax rate was a whopping 63 percent, but that's been recently cut down to about 51 percent -- good news for billionaires like Lego tycoon Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen.

GREAT ANIMATION / SO SO SONG

ABSOLUTELY HEARTBREAKING !

NEW YORK: Buffalo Teen Kills Himself After Years Of Anti-Gay Bullying
Heartbroken Buffalo parents Tracy and Tim Rodemeyer say they found their 14 year-old son Jamey dead yesterday morning in a presumed suicide. Jamey had long complained of vicious homophobic bullying at the hands of his classmates.
Jamey Rodemeyer needed help. At 14, he was grappling with adolescent demons that could torment grown men. And when he was online, he wrote about it. "I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens," he wrote Sept. 9. "What do I have to do so people will listen to me?" Just over one week later, Jamey was found dead outside his home of an apparent suicide. In the months prior, he routinely blogged about school bullying and thoughts of suicide in between upbeat posts about his pop star idol Lady Gaga and the ordinary types of teen rants typical for kids his age. On Sept. 8, he wrote: "No one in my school cares about preventing suicide, while you're the ones calling me [gay slur] and tearing me down."
Much of Jamey's tormenting came via cyber-bullying. His parents, who say they discussed and supported Jamey's questioning of his sexuality, intend to carry on his campaign against bullies.
Warning: This may really make you cry!
VIDEO: Jamey actually recorded an "It Get Better" clip back in May.

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REALLY LIGHT ON HIS FEET

"I DO" ONE MINUTE AFTER MIDNIGHT

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 With DADT tossed to the dustbin of history, one Navy officer and his partner celebrated two civil rights victories with a Vermont marriage:
When Navy Lt. Gary Ross and his partner were searching for a place to get married, they settled on a site in Vermont, in part because the state is in the Eastern time zone.
That way, the two men were able to recite their vows before family and friends at the first possible moment after the formal repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Just after midnight Tuesday, the partners of 11 years were married.
I think it was a beautiful ceremony. The emotions really hit me…but it’s finally official,” Ross said early Tuesday.

DADT RIP

DON'T ASK DON'T TELL IS HISTORY



Here it is,, the notice sent to soldiers around the world that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is over:
Today marks the end of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” The law is repealed. From this day forward, gay and lesbian Soldiers may serve in our Army with the dignity and respect they deserve. Our rules, regulations and politics reflect the repeal guidance issued by the Department of Defense and will apply uniformly without regard to sexual orientation, which is a personal and private matter.
For over 236 years, the U.S. Army has been an extraordinary force for good in the world. Our Soldiers are the most agile, adaptable and capable warriors in history — and we are ready for this change...
Accordingly, we expect all personnel to follow our Values by implementing the repeal fully, fairly and in accordance with policy guidance. It is the duty of all personnel to treat each other with dignity and respect, while maintaining good order and discipline throughout our ranks. Doing so, will help the U.S. Army remain the Strength of the Nation.

BEST BURNING MAN VIDEO


Welcome Home - A Burning Man Adventure 2011 from Wallaby Way on Vimeo.

1970'S REALLY !! REALLY KOOL

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Glenn of California Rosewood & Lucite Dresser & Chests
United states
1970's
Pair of rosewood and lucite tall chests & double dresser by Glenn of California circa early 1970's. These fantastic examples are done in book matched Brazilian rosewood. They each have drawers that are trimmed in chrome and the sides are clad in thick translucent lucite.

Price
$14,600 three pieces OR pair: $8800 dresser: $5800 

Condition*
all original overall great

Measurements for Tall chests
height: 4 ft. 5 in.
depth: 23.25 in.
width/length: 18 in.
Measurements for Dresser
height: 28.75 in.
depth: 20 in.
width/length: 6 ft. 4.5 in.
Specifications
Number of items: 3
Materials/Techniques: wood and lucite
Creator: Glenn Of California
Photography
provided by Red Modern Furniture
Location
Red Modern Furniture
201 East Camelback Road
Phoenix, AZ, 85012
Phone: 602-256-9620
E-Mail: redmf@mac.com

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CHURCH SIGN OF THE TIMES

ARCHITECTURALLY WONDEROUS STAIRCASES


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look out lady gaga…bjork is BACK

AND JIMMEY ROGERS WASN'T EVEN GAY


"Secretly" - A Vintage Montage Of Guys Together from MJS on Vimeo.

WELL ISN'T THIS THE FUCKING TRUTH

TRULY AWESOME

1952

2011

I'LL TAKE PLAN B

AFTERTHOUGHTS FROM ANDREW SULLIVAN



Bin Laden hoped to provoke a civilizational war between Islam and the West. And we took the bait.

There was a perfunctory knock on my door before a friend rushed in to wake me up. “They’ve attacked the World Trade Center,” he yelled, looming suddenly above my bed. “They already did that,” I groggily responded. “You’ve got to get up!” he shouted as he rushed back out the door. And I actually went back to sleep. An hour later, rousing myself, I made my way to the laptop and saw a photo of a flash of fire near the top of one of the Twin Towers on AOL’s welcome screen. I suddenly realized it had not been a bomb but a plane. No: two planes. I ran over to my friend’s. And as I watched his television, video footage of the second plane, entering the tower like a diver slipping ripple-free into a pool, kept playing. It dawned on me that the first plane had been partly a way to get the whole world watching as the second mass murder took place. What kind of evil is this? A silence fell over the room. We were all standing, or pacing. After a while, I walked outside and heard the eerie quiet of a sky without planes, and saw people walking about in a daze. And a little later, I saw the towers fall, one after the other, imploding, like my psyche.
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Images matter. Within a few hours of going back to sleep after hearing mere words, I was in an utterly different world. As a way of generating pure, unalloyed terror, this was demonically perfect. I was terrified by the thought of the mayhem in the buildings. I was immobilized watching a live, instantaneous mass death. I was traumatized by the huge wall of dust that spread like a CGI wave through the streets of lower Manhattan. I was, like most of us, simply terrorized. And it’s only now, a decade later, that I’ve come to see how significant that feeling was, how transformative it would become. We often talk about terror in terms of the terrorist. We do so less in terms of the terrorized. But it was how this act changed those of us who were bystanders that made this event more awful than a mere mass murder. It was mass murder as theater and as threat.
It took months for this initial trauma to ebb, years for my psyche to regain its equilibrium. And it took me close to a decade to realize just how slickly Osama bin Laden had done his evil work, how insidiously his despicable performance art had reached into my mind and altered it, how carefully he had set the trap and how guilelessly I—we—had walked right into it.
We need to understand that 9/11 worked. It worked as a tactic to induce American self-destruction, even if it failed spectacularly as a strategy to advance Al Qaeda—and its heretical message of suicidal warfare—across the globe. It worked because this was not just another terror attack. The emblems were clear: the looming towers of Western capitalism in New York, the cradle of Western democracy in Washington. When the third plane crashed into the Pentagon and the fourth (United 93) was brought down by its passengers, the drama didn’t cease. We saw the symbol of America’s military preeminence lying with its side opened like a tin can. And we imagined the panic and courage in the air over Pennsylvania as people just like us finally found their bearings and fought back.

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NO "JETSON" FUTURE

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Cartoonist Steven M. Johnson uses his former urban planner knowledge to envision it:
In 1975 I started predicting (in my drawings) that store-bought clothing would be sold pre-ripped; I was almost a decade ahead. In 1991 I showed a drawing of a small, radio-controlled vacuum cleaner that could creep under furniture. It was about the size of the Roomba, which was offered a decade later. Mere entertainment is sometimes a vehicle for suggesting what is in the air.
Above: Johnson's design for a Swimming Pool Moat to address crime prevention. You can see his vision for umbrellas of the future here.

THE PERILS OF PALINE

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The craven Chicago Tribune has pulled the Doonesbury strip from its pages this week because it contains nuggets from Joe McGinniss's new book on the real Sarah Palin. Here's the offending first instalment. Money quote:
The paper says in an A2 note that “the subject matter does not meet our standards of fairness [because] the strips include excerpts from a book that is not yet on the market and therefore unavailable for review or verification by the Tribune.”
But it's a fucking cartoon! The character featured in it is fictional. Jesus. Did they treat Palin's own delusional "Going Rogue" as if it had been fact-checked? It wasn't. But The Rogue has been fact-checked within an inch of its life.
One of the fascinating aspects of the coming Rogue whirlwind will be how the MSM handles it. Can they handle the Palinista blowback? Are they so afraid of being called "liberal"? Will they even note the existence of Chapter 19?
One tiny nugget. Joe McGinniss sent advance copies of his devastating book on Sarah Palin, "The Rogue," to three people: me, Garry Trudeau and Rosanne Cash. Make of that what you will; but that book is unputdownable.

GALACTIC EXPLOSION


New Supernova Remnant Lights Up

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers
are witnessing the unprecedented transition of 
a supernova to a supernova remnant, where 
light from an exploding star in a neighboring 
galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, reached 
Earth in February 1987. Named Supernova 
1987A, it was the closest supernova explosion 
witnessed in almost 400 years. The supernova's 
close proximity to Earth allows astronomers to 
study it in detail as it evolves. Now, the super-
nova debris, which has faded over the years, is 
brightening. This means that a different power 
source has begun to light the debris. The debris 
of SN 1987A is beginning to impact the surround-
ing ring, creating powerful shock waves that 
generate X-rays observed with NASA's Chandra 
X-ray Observatory. Those X-rays are illuminating 
the supernova debris and shock heating is making 
it glow in visible light. Since its launch in 1990, 
the Hubble telescope has provided a continuous 
record of the changes in SN 1987A.

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MY DREAM CAR

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1954 Ford FX-Atmos
This futuristic Ford, the FX-Atmos, caused a stir at the 1954 Chicago Auto Show. According to the vice-president of Ford, its purpose was to "represent one of the many avenues which styling could take into the future". This far fetched concept car had rocket inspired styling, and Ford even envisaged nuclear power for the concept. 
The car was controlled by two joysticks on either side of the driver. 
One point, the highly unfriendly foot long spikes protruding from each aircraft like air intake would have skewered any pedestrians unfortunate enough to get in the ATMOS's way.

ONE of the wildest “dream” cars ever to roll out of a Michigan experimental laboratory is the creature shown above, the FX-Atmos—built by Ford and backed up by the determination that “it shall never be built for sale.” This, say the engineers, is purely a “car of the future,” however
it represents styling concepts that could easily appear in the Fords of a few years from now, if the general public accepts them. The engine design and other mechanical factors were not included in this project.



From MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED May 1954
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