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Bobby - "I don't care how many wives you got, how many camels you got or how much money you got in the bank.....you gots ta have lovin!"

Our military is there to help open a secure corridor for a pipeline to export the oil and gas riches of the Caspian Basin of Central Asia to the West.

80% of the world supply of opiates comes from Afghanistan too. Not quite as profitable as oil but profitable none the less.

Their strengths are rapid violence, stealth, mobility and surprise

Rapid violence? That sounds way worse than normal violence.

And on at 10:30am tomorrow morning (Oct 9th) just thought I'd let you know. I've been dying to see this since I was there!

Shocker.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081008/us/politics_us_usa_politics_palin_ancestry_1

Palin may be related to Princess Diana, Roosevelt

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is distantly related to the late Princess Diana and late U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, genealogy experts said on Wednesday.

The governor of Alaska and the princess are tenth cousins, while Palin and Roosevelt are ninth cousins once removed, said Ancestry.com, online genealogists based in Provo, Utah.

The genealogical connections are not the first to gain attention in the U.S. presidential campaign. Last year, Lynne Cheney said she found while tracing her family roots that her husband Vice President Dick Cheney was a distant cousin of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Other researchers discovered Obama is distant cousins with actor Brad Pitt.

"When you've got candidates who have deep roots in America, there's a good chance that they're going to have some famous cousins," said Ancestry.com's chief family historian Megan Smolenyak.

"We've all got literally millions of cousins. The trick is finding that one little connection that results in something like Sarah Palin being related to FDR or Diana," she said.

Palin and the late princess descended from John Strong and his wife Abigail Ford, Ancestry.com said.

Strong was born around 1605 in England and emigrated to the United States, where he died in Massachusetts in 1699, Ancestry.com said.

Palin and Roosevelt share ancestor John Lothrop, who was born in England in 1584 and also emigrated to America, where he died in Massachusetts in 1653, Ancestry.com said.

According to family and local histories, Lothrop was a Puritan Presbyterian minister who arrived in the Massachusetts colony in 1634, said Ancestry.com, which says it has access to 7 billion records online.

If you come across Big Johns Records just off Dunlop be sure to check it out. I have never walked into that store and left without spending atleast $50. Some great finds there. Have fun!

Agreed. Although it appears that John sold the shop which is now called BJ's Records and Collectibles. These guys really cleaned it all up and it's actually organized now. If I won the lottery I would buy the entire store and spend the next 5 years going through the vinyl.

Back on the Train

Bump!

It annoys me highly that the media claims that Harper won the debate. He bumbled through the whole thing and was IMO slapped around like a rag doll.

Last time I checked I was unable to vote in the American election. Why would I choose their debate over ours?

I hope Stephen Harper falls down a deep dark hole on his way out of the studio tonite.

This just made my millenium.

I agree. The crowd is way too clear and loud. Great show though!

I'm really not that knowledgable about this stuff but if people in the U.S. lose their homes because of this who gets them? The Banks? The Government?

I wouldn't mind having that first one!

YEM>

Smoke on the Water>

YEM

nice.

I like Cornmeal already...4 minutes in.

Should be a good show - have you heard the Willie Nelson/ Wynton Marsalis live album - it's facking GREAT!

Really? Wow thats quite the combo! I'll have to check it out for sure.

Never saw the orchestra before but I did see the Wynton Marsalis Quartet at Jazz Fest a few years ago and it was one the greatest shows I've ever seen. I can't honestly describe how good it was, but then again I am a Jazz freak.

Thanks Everybody!

Looks like it's available for download here as well : http://musicalstewdaily.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/trey-anastasio-newport-folk-festival/

$10 Billion? The cost of this experiment seems to double in every article that comes out.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080920/technology/technology_switzerland_particle_collider_1

GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher - which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month - has been damaged twice and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said Saturday.

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said Saturday that a large amount of helium had leaked into the 27-kilometre circular tunnel deep under the Swiss-French border that houses the Large Hadron Collider.

The massive collider began operating Sept. 10 to the delight of physicists around the world, flinging protons around the circle at nearly the speed of light. But it had to be shut down only 36 hours later due to a failure of an electrical transformer.

That was repaired, but a CERN statement said a second failure took place midday Friday in the last section of the tunnel to undergo testing at high current, causing the large helium leak.

CERN spokesman James Gillies said the latest incident was several kilometres from the earlier damage. It is considered much more time-consuming to repair than the first malfunction.

"Preliminary investigations indicate that the most likely cause of the (Friday) problem was a faulty electrical connection between two magnets, which probably melted at high current leading to mechanical failure," said the statement Saturday.

It said the sector will have to be warmed up for repairs to take place, which will require a minimum of two months down time for the collider.

Such faults are common in colliders designed for use at room temperature, and the repair time would be a matter of days, Gillies said. What will slow it down for the LHC is the time it will take to warm up the section and then cool it down again.

The Large Hadron Collider operates at near absolute zero, colder than outer space, for maximum efficiency.

Gillies said it would take "several weeks minimum" to warm up the sector.

"Then we can fix it," Gillies said. "Then we cool it down again."

The $10 billion particle collider, in the design and construction stages for more than two decades, is the world's largest atom smasher. It fires beams of protons from the nuclei of atoms around the tunnels at nearly the speed of light.

It then causes the protons to collide, revealing how the tiniest particles were first created after the "big bang," which many theorize was the massive explosion that formed the stars, planets and everything.

CERN announced Thursday that it had shut down the collider a week ago after a successful startup that had beams of protons circling in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions in the collider.

That shutdown was caused by the failure of an electrical transformer which handles part of the cooling, CERN said. That transformer was replaced this week and the machine was lowered back to operating temperature to prepare for a resumption of operations.

The CERN experiments with the particle collider hope to reveal more about "dark matter," antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. They could also find evidence of a hypothetical particle - the Higgs boson - which is sometimes called the "God particle" because it is believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.

Smaller colliders have been used for decades to study the makeup of the atom. Scientists once thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of an atom's nucleus, but experiments have shown that protons and neutrons are made of quarks and gluons and that there are other forces and particles.

The LHC provides much greater power than earlier colliders.

Its start came over the objections of some who feared the collision of protons could eventually imperil the Earth by creating micro black holes - subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.

CERN and leading physicists maintain the project is safe.

Thanks! I'm proud to say I am now the owner of a 12 String Acoustic YEAH!

Thanks Bri!

Damn cool. Reminds me of a 2 disc set that somebody on here made up a few years back of all of Trey's acoustic solo performances. I wonder if I still have those kicking around somewhere?

So what, they save half of the Tickets for big events and then sell them off for 3-10x their value? Is this to solve scalping? Total scam. We looked for ACDC tix and they were sold out but if we wanted to fork out $238 we could get nose bleeds....or $897 for okay seats.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080917/canada/canada_vote_narcotics_law

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's Green Party leader Elizabeth May apologized on Wednesday for never having smoked marijuana, as she unveiled her election plank, which touts legalizing and taxing pot.

"I am not a fan of marijuana use," May told reporters at a campaign stop in Halifax, televised nationally. "I've never used marijuana. I apologize."

The Green Party in its policy document said decades-old marijuana prohibition "has utterly failed and has not led to reduced drug use in Canada."

Rather, prohibition has led to costly policing to combat its distribution, "criminalizing youth and fostering organized crime," it argues.

Going further than former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien's 2002 pledge to decriminalize marijuana that was twice foiled by US protests, the Green Party says it supports cannabis sales to adults through licensed distributors.

As well, the party would like to see "small, independent growers" thrive, and the government taxing the weed at the same rate as tobacco, generating an estimated one billion dollars Canadian (931 million US) annually.