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Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:32:35 GMT

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STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:43:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The torch has been off-limits to visitors since the "Black Tom" explosion of July 30, 1916. Debris from the attack on U.S. ammunition supplies on nearby—and long since subsumed by landfill—Black Tom Island, New Jersey, pierced the statue.

Another attack—the terrorist assault on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001—prompted the full closure of Liberty Island, which was reopened a hundred days later. The Statue of Liberty would reopen in 2004, and the reopening of the crown will complete the process on the Fourth of July, 2009.

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July 2, 2009--Photographed from a rare vantage point, several of the Statue of Liberty's 25 observation windows look out over New York Harbor in an undated picture.

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Now with safer, higher railings, a refurbished spiral staircase

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As seen in 1984, strap-iron armature holds the statue's copper skin in place.

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Circa-1930 tourists peer out of the Statue of Liberty's crown

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Before crowds ascend again on the Fourth of July, 2009, Statue of Liberty park ranger Lance Williams quietly takes in the view

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The circa-1886 Statue of Liberty's angular steel skeleton meets its elegantly undulating copper toga in this 1984 picture.

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Invisible to tourists, the Statue of Liberty's 25-foot-long (7.6-meter-long) left foot, pictured in 1984

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the replacement of the torch.

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ladder is the only way to the torch, the Statue of Liberty's highest point.

Tags: historic american engineering record, library of congress

How close was that?

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:04:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And he casually takes a photo after.....

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"Holding hands — and that's how they died,

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:15:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: an amazing story of couple married and living together for 75 golden years...quite moving...

Clip Source: www.wfaa.com

Couple, married 75 years, pass away hours apart

By JIM DOUGLAS / WFAA-TV

On Tuesday afternoon, 100-year-old J.C. Cox and his and 96-year-old wife Josie were buried together.

The couple — married for 75 years — died within five hours of each other.

Their story begins on Christmas Day in 1932.

"They stayed together the whole time," Williamson said, pointing out the bed they had shared.

Mrs. Cox insisted on being the sole person to care for J.C., even up until the moment they entered a nursing home last month.

"She was still ironing his clothes three weeks ago," Williamson said.

"She was going to make sure — even though he never went anywhere — his clothes were going to be starched," Grimm said.

Persistence never left them. They kept their wedding vows for 75 years, through the deaths of their own children, the lives of three new generations and the inevitable changes in each other.

"Holding hands — and that's how they died," Williamson said, with tears in her eyes. "Pa died holding onto Granny."

All-purpose tanuki testicles (prints by Kuniyoshi)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:33:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Recently finished reading Tom Robbins' "Villa Incognito" (recommended) in which, one of the main protagonists, is a Tanuki (or rather 'The' Tanuki). So I found these prints even more amusing.

Clip Source: www.pinktentacle.com

In the mid-1840s, ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) created a number of woodblock prints showing legendary tanuki (raccoon dogs) using their humorously large scrota in creative ways.

River fishing

Shelter from evening showers

Rokurokubi (long-necked monster) disguise

Net fishing

Making dashi (soup stock)

Weightlifting

Catfish mallet

Coming and going

Making mochi

Visiting Konpira, the guardian deity of seafaring

Boy’s festival

Cause of chronic abdominal pain

Shichifukujin (the Seven Lucky Gods) disguise

Fortune-telling tent

Shop signs

River crossing

Towboat

Seine fishing

See more of Kuniyoshi’s tanuki images at Kuniyoshi Project (1, 2).

Tags: testicles, tanuki, kuniyoshi

Is Goldman Sachs a vampire squid?

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:02:22 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: I'll be the first to admit that i don't understand Goldman Sachs well enough to have an opinion here - though they do seem to have their tentacles deep into all aspects of the federal government wherever money is concerned. That said, this introduction to Goldman Sachs in an article from Rolling Stone are so powerfully worded that i felt compelled to amplify them.

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The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

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Palin to resign this month

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:35:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: May indicate plans to go after a presidential run.

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Gov. Sarah Palin to resign her office

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her Wasilla home Friday morning.

Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the Governor's Picnic at Pionner Park in Fairbanks on Saturday, July 25, Palin said.

There was no immediate word as to why she will resign, though speculation has been rampant that the former vice presidential candidate is gearing up for a run at the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

The stunning announcement by Palin opens the floodgates for the 2010 gubernatorial race. Speculation that Palin might not seek re-election had fueled further conjecture of who might run.

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Blind man has TOOTH implanted into his eye

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:36:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "When Martin Jones met his wife four years ago he never imagined that one day he would get to see what she looked like.

The 42-year-old builder was left blind after an accident at work more than a decade ago.

But a remarkable operation - which implants part of his tooth in his eye - has now pierced his world of darkness."

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Mr Jones,

had already spent eight years without his sight after a tub of white hot aluminium exploded in his face at work in a scrapyard.

He suffered 37 per cent burns and had to wear a special body stocking for 23 hours a day. He also has his left eye removed.

But surgeons were able to save the right eye, even though he was unable to see through it.

It was only when a revolutionary new operation was pioneered at the Sussex Eye Clinic in Brighton that he was given a chance to have his sight back.

During the procedure, a minute section of a patient's tooth is removed, reshaped and chiseled through to grip the man-made lens which is then placed in its core.

It is implanted under an eyelid where it becomes covered in tissue.

The process requires a living tooth as an implant because doctors suggest there are chances the eye would reject a plastic equivalent

'I feel fantastic getting my sight back,' he said. 'I

Tags: science, health, eye, blindness, surgery

Slideshow: Sears Tower New Skydeck Ledge

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:34:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I don't think I could do this.

For those who can stand heights, the new "Ledge" that will allow visitors to the Sears Tower Skydeck to look straight down 1,353 feet opens Thursday at 9 a.m.

The owners of Sears Tower unveiled its new glass ledge in July 2009. The ledge juts out from the building's west Skydeck on the building's 103rd floor.

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SLIDESHOW: SEARS SKYDECK LEDGE

1 of 3: Artist's rendering of the Sears Tower's Skydeck Ledge, to be installed in summer 2009.

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2 of 3: Artist's rendering of the Sears Tower's Skydeck Ledge, to be installed in summer 2009.

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3 of 3

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Reporters check out the new "Ledge" at Sears Tower

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Look out below!

Nice view

Gardening on the 90th floor

Showing off his design

Green hotel

The greening of the Sears Tower

Side by side

Sketches and renderings

Artist's renderings

Architect Adrian Smith shows a rendering Wednesday of a new proposed hotel which would be located next to the Sears Tower.

The owners of Sears Tower unveiled its new glass ledge in July 2009. The ledge juts out from the building's west Skydeck on the building's 103rd floor. This comes after the owners of the Sears Tower announced that they will build an environmentally friendly hotel next to the skyscraper, which is also going green.

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Giant Naked Goddess To Be Carved Into Hillside

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:40:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Dubbed the "Goddess of the North", Northumberlandia will be made from two million tonnes of earth dug out from an open cast mine in Cramlington, and tower 112ft into the northern sky.

The Goddess, designed by artist Charles Jencks, will recline over the Shotton open-cast mine and form the centre piece of a new public park at the site.

"It will take around 20 minutes just to walk all the way around her, and the design has been enhanced with more paths to allow visitors to the park to easily ascend the figure.

"As well as the artwork itself, the surrounding landform park will offer important nature conservation and public health benefits, giving both local people and visitors an ideal place to exercise, picnic and enjoy themselves."

Tags: goddess, nature, sculpture, art, earth

3-D View of San Andreas Fault

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:15:30 GMT

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Clip Source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov

Much of the length of the fault is lined by a distinct trough.

The black line curving along the east side of the fault is I-280, and California highway 92 runs from the top right across to the center left of the image, heading towards Half Moon Bay to the west. San Mateo and Burlingame are parts of the large urbanized area in various tones of pink and green, and Foster City is the area of curved streets extending out into the San Francisco Bay at the top right.

Earth’s crust is a collection of fractured plates that shift across the planet’s surface over millions of years. Two of the major plates meet at the coast of California; the Pacific Plate, under the ocean, is drifting slowly northwest, grinding along the margin of the North American Plate, to the east. Where they meet, the intense pressure of the collision creates an a 800-mile-long fracture zone called the San Andreas Fault.

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Palin: Not quitting is for quitters, so I'm quitting

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:15:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Once again, Palin blurts her way into senseless babble.

Clip Source: www.talkingpointsmemo.com

Perhaps the best part of Palin's announcement today:

Life is too short to compromise time and resources... it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: "Sit down and shut up", but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

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Jon Stewart Blasts Glenn Beck & Michael Scheuer For Promoting Slaughter Of Americans (VIDEO)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:34:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Beck, of course, has launched some campaign called the 9/12 Project, in which he beseeches Americans to start being the people they were on September 12th. I gather now that when Beck says that, he'd saying he'd like many of us to be like the people on September 12th who were scorched into ashes by Osama bin Laden.

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Hey, you remember a couple of days ago when Michael Scheuer appeared on the "Glenn Beck Whirligig Of Freakjuice" to talk about border security, and he said that "the only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States." And then Glenn Beck was all up inside Osama bin Laden's head like he was the star of "CSI: Methamphetaminetown," gravely noting, "Which is why I was thinking this weekend if I were him, that would be the last thing I would do right now."

Remember that? Well, I think we can all say that reasoned discourse was perfected that day. I think the next time I see someone on the streets caught out in the rain, I'm just going to march up to them and yell, "What's it going to take, jerkface? Another HURRICANE KATRINA? Before you remember your fracking umbrella?"

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Missing Moon-Landing Videotapes May Have Been Found

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:43:54 GMT

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Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, NASA may have found the long-lost original Apollo 11 videotapes.

If true, as Britain's Sunday Express reports, the high-quality tapes may give us a whole new view of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's lunar strolls.

Back on July 20, 1969, the raw video feed from the moon was beamed to the Parkes Observatory radio telescope in southeastern Australia, and then compressed and sent to Mission Control in Houston.

Because of technical issues, NASA's images couldn't be fed directly to the TV networks.

Those images survive, and anyone can see them on YouTube. But the original, sharp, black-and-white tapes that were recorded at Parkes vanished.

Around the same time, though, a cache of tapes containing data from moon-surface experiments from the entire Apollo program was discovered in a university basement in Perth, Western Australia, on the other side of the country from Parkes.

Tags: history, moon, video