SevenSeasJim

I have a cabin a little NE of Parry Sound. We had the pleasure of taking a trip to the local dump last time I was there.

That wouldn't happen to be the Dunchurch mall would it? (hehehe)

Last summer I had a black bear run out about 20 feet in front of my bike on the Seguin trail. Thankfully it kept going.

Curt... make sure you remember your fudge and wrappers too... so you can give your fudge packing demonstrations.

And the nuts to go with the fudge.

... speaking of Hacky Sack.... man did I have a rough shave the other day... needless to say... don't shave after 4 cups of coffee.

This will be bullet one in my PowerPoint.

Atta Boy

Apparently he has a PowerPoint presentation and laser pointer ready to go.........Ouch

Paan will be offering a 2 hour workshop on bag shaving. Be sure not to miss!! :grin:

Calling in sick on Friday and leaving around noon.

Did you have to hold an ice cube in your hand for a few minutes? You know, the same pain that a woman feels when giving birth (now that is fucked!)

It's been a good year for me. Three or four wet farts and that's about it.

Me see big problem with Special Interest Groups.

I don't care if it rains' date=' snows, shines.. whatever... give me a group of happy open-minded dancers who aren't afraid to get a little wet, and some good music... I am set for the weekend.

Everything else is will fall into place.

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[color:purple]Well aren't you just the perfectly open-minded and loveable little hippie.

I'll take the sun as my basis and enjoy the pieces falling into place after that.

Will there be afternoon martini's rain or shine?

I have some really good memories of CTMF too...

I can't believe that over 300,000 people showed... all those hippies dancing in the mud... and then there was that bad batch of brown acid... nasty stuff..

My highlight was when Jimi Hendrix played... boy that cat can whale.

Good times I tell ya.

Kev, that was your family reunion.

Here's a few more pics.

Lighting also plays a large roll in how much a consumer will purchase.

I hate how hot those lights are. It pisses me off so much that I say "Fuck It" and piss on their fake plants and leave the store without buying anything.

The way Harper reacts to everything reminds me of some dithering whiney bitch.

Ricky trying to talk space talk was halarious as well.

Rickey at Zellers using their pager system had me in stitches and I was reminded of whenever Douglas and I are in large stores. I try and do the same thing but she freaks on me.

"What's the worst they are going to do? Kick us out?"

"Randy and Lehey to the Fuck Off Department"

Do you think these guys were hired to keep the public scared?

No charges? Not shot down?

Thursday, May 12, 2005 Posted: 9:20 AM EDT (1320 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A pilot and a student pilot were released without criminal charges Wednesday after their plane flew within three miles of the White House, prompting evacuations throughout the capital, officials said.

A Black Hawk helicopter and two F-16 fighter jets forced the Cessna 150 aircraft to land at a small airport in Frederick, Maryland at 12:37 p.m., officials said.

Law enforcement officials identified the men aboard the plane as Jim Sheaffer, the pilot, and Troy Martin, a student pilot. They were taken into custody by Maryland state police and turned over to FBI and Secret Service agents for questioning.

Sheaffer and Martin are members of the Pennsylvania-based Vintage Aero Club, said John Henderson, another club member. The club is the plane's registered owner in FAA records.

They took off from a small airport in Smoketown, Pennsylvania, and were on their way to an air show in North Carolina when they flew into the restricted airspace, Henderson said.

He added he's sure the breach was accidental and that they meant no harm. Federal officials said it's not believed they ever posed any kind of threat.

The men still could face civil action by the FAA, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told CNN.

That could include license suspensions and civil penalties up to $1,100 per violation, such as entering restricted airspace, failing to respond to communications, and failing to be properly informed of flight restrictions.

Red alert at White House

As the plane approached, authorities evacuated the White House and other federal buildings.

"Run, this is no joke, leave the grounds," a Secret Service agent told CNN's Suzanne Malveaux.

President Bush was not at the White House at the time, but first lady Laura Bush and former first lady Nancy Reagan -- who was in town for a tribute -- were inside the residence and were moved to a secure location.

Vice President Dick Cheney was in the West Wing of the White House when the alert sounded and was hustled to a secure location away from Pennsylvania Avenue, White House officials said.

At the time, the president was taking a bike ride with a security detail near Waldorf, Maryland, officials said. He returned to the White House more than an hour later.

At the Capitol members of the House and Senate were evacuated while in session.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Capitol Police "pulled me out of my shoes" when they whisked the leadership off to a secure location.

At the Supreme Court building at least four justices were taken to a secure location along with all other staff, court sources said. Tourists were told to leave.

The Pentagon -- where both Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers were working -- was not evacuated.

No official notification was given to the Pentagon's 24,000 workers until after the "all clear" was given, but most were aware of the incident because cable television news channels are routinely on in many offices.

Pentagon officials did not provide an immediate explanation for the decision not to evacuate the building, which was hit September 11, 2001.

For eight minutes, the alert level for the White House was raised to red, the highest level of the color-coded threat alert system, after the pilot failed to respond to attempts to contact him by radio, said White House spokesman Scott McClellan.

Only when the plane turned west did the White House alert level return to yellow alert, he said, and the "all-clear" sounded three minutes later. (Timeline)

The White House alert system predates -- and is separate from -- the Department of Homeland Security's threat system.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) confirmed that F-16s were scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base. "The fighters dispensed four flares within restricted airspace to get the pilot's attention and then escorted the aircraft out of the ADIZ (Air Defense Identification Zone)," according to NORAD.

Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw, who lives in the area, said he saw two F-16 jets circle the single-engine plane and fire warning flares. The F-16s then appeared to direct the small aircraft away from the downtown area, Shaw said.

Lock the thread! :wink:

Now that doesn't sound like a Lazlo response :wink:

Interesting article. I copied the entire article as you must be signed up to view (NY Times)

By NICHOLAS WADE IN THE NY TIMES

Published: May 9, 2005

Using a brain-imaging technique, Swedish researchers have shown that men and women respond differently to two odors that may be involved in sexual arousal, and that homosexual men respond in the same way as women.

The two chemicals, one a testosterone derivative produced in men's sweat and the other an estrogen-like compound found in women's urine, have long been suspected of being pheromones, chemicals emitted by one individual to trigger some behavior in another of the same species. The role of pheromones, particularly in guiding sexual behavior, has been well established in animals but experts differ as to what importance, if any, they have retained in human mating.

The new research may open the way to studying human pheromones as well as the biological basis of sexual preference. The study, by Dr. Ivanka Savic and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, is being reported in Tuesday's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Most odors cause specific, smell-related regions of the human brain to light up when visualized by a PET scanner, a form of brain imaging that tracks blood flow in the brain and hence, by inference, the presence of suddenly active neurons in need of extra glucose. Several years ago, Dr. Savic and colleagues showed that the two chemicals activated the brain in a quite different way from ordinary scents. The estrogen-like compound, though it activated the usual smell-related regions in women, lit up the hypothalamus in men. This is a brain center that governs sexual behavior and, through its control of the pituitary gland lying just beneath it, the hormonal state of the body.

The male sweat chemical, on the other hand, did just the opposite; it activated mostly the hypothalamus in women and the smell-related regions in men. The two chemicals seemed to be leading a double life, playing the role of odor with one sex and of pheromone with another.

Dr. Savic has now repeated the experiment but with the addition of homosexual men as a third group. The gay men responded to the two chemicals in the same way as did women, she reports, as if the hypothalamus's response is determined not by biological sex but by the owner's sexual orientation.

Dr. Savic said she had also studied homosexual women, and had gathered "very interesting and somewhat complicated preliminary data." Another researcher said that it did not matter that gay women were not included in Dr. Savic's final report because they do not respond in the same way as gay men do.

The report by Dr. Savic and her colleagues recalls a 1991 report by Dr. Simon LeVay that a small region of the hypothalamus was twice as large in straight men than in women or gay men. The PET scanning technique used by Dr. Savic lacks the resolution to see the region studied by Dr. LeVay, which is a mere millimeter or so across. But both findings suggest that the hypothalamus is organized in a way related to sexual orientation.

The new finding, if confirmed, would break new ground in two important directions, those of human pheromones and human sexuality. Mice are known to influence each other's sexual behavior through emission of chemicals that act like hormones on the recipient's brain and are known, by derivation, as pheromones. Hopes, by the fragrance industry among others, of finding human pheromones were dashed several years ago when it emerged that the vomero-nasal organ, a tiny structure in the nose through which mice detect many pheromones, has largely lost its innervation in humans.

Researchers interpreted that to mean that humans, as they evolved to rely more on sight than on smell, had no need of the primitive cues that pass for sexual attractiveness among mice. But a role for human pheromones could not be ruled out, especially in light of findings that women living or working together tend to synchronize their menstrual cycles.

Dr. Savic's work is seen by some researchers as strong evidence in favor of human pheromones. "The question of whether human pheromones exist has been answered. They do," Dr. Noam Sobel, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote in commenting on Dr. Savic's report of 2001.

Dr. Catherine Dulac, a Harvard University biologist who studies pheromones in mice, said that if a chemical modified the function of the hypothalamus, that might be sufficient to regard it as a pheromone. She said the Swedish study was extremely interesting, even though "humans are a terrible experimental subject," but noted the researchers had used a far higher dose of the armpit chemical than anyone would be exposed to in normal life.

If human pheromones do exist, Dr. Savic's approach may allow insights into how the brain is organized not just for sexual orientation but for sexuality in general. "The big question is not where homosexuality comes from but where does sexuality come from," said Dr. Dean Hamer, a geneticist at the National Institutes of Health.

The different pattern of activity that Dr. Savic sees in the brains of gay men could be either a cause or an effect of their sexual orientation. If sexual orientation has a genetic cause, or is influenced by hormones in the womb or at puberty, then the neurons in the hypothalamus could wire themselves up in a way that shaped which sex a person is attracted to. Alternatively, Dr. Savic's finding could be just be a consequence of straight and gay men using their brain in different ways.

"We cannot tell if the different pattern is cause or effect - the study does not give any answer to these crucial questions," Dr. Savic said. But the technique might provide an answer, Dr. Hamer noted, if it were applied to people of different ages to see when in life the different pattern of response developed.

Dr. LeVay said he believed from animal experiments that the size differences in the hypothalamic region he had studied arose before birth, perhaps in response to differences in the circulating level of sex hormones. Both his finding and Dr. Savic's suggest the hypothalamus is specifically organized in relation to sexual orientation, he said.

Some researchers believe there is likely to be a genetic component of homosexuality because of its concordance among twins. The occurrence of male homosexuality in both members of a twin pair is 22 percent in non-identical twins but rises to 52 percent in identical twins. On the other hand, gay men have fewer children, meaning that in Darwinian terms any genetic variant that promotes homosexuality should be quickly eliminated from the population. Dr. Hamer believes such genes may nevertheless persist because, although they reduce descendants in gay men, they increase fertility in women.

Could Dr. Savic's technique be used as a way of assessing a person's sexual orientation? She said it had not be shown to have the specificity necessary for a test. Other researchers said that observing people's reactions to erotic images was a simpler way of doing the same thing, so the brain scanning technique raised no new issues.

Peter pretending to be a woman was a good one as well. Stewie wakes up to find he's sucking on Peter's tit. Classic!

What did Bubbles call one of J-Roc's posse? Something like Fidel Castro but a little off.

I laughed at Bubbles' cart buddy's name "Shitty Bill"

I used to shop at the Real Canadian Superstore when I lived in Thunder Bay. Always had awesome deals on.