![]() | PAYIN' DUES TEAM JERRY VS SPACE INVADERS CREW Ryan(First) and Steve vs Waigi(First) and Curious George |
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![]() | Day 5: Puerto Rico's Old World Fort El Morro from the Ocean Morning at Sea on the way to Puerto Rico. The Old World fort of El Morro at the tip of the island kept invaders literally "at bay" for hundreds of years, making Puerto Rico a pivotal location in history and geography. Not such a far trip from St. Thomas, Puerto Rico is actually visible from a hilltop vantage point on St. Thomas. In fact, we spent most of the night's passage from one island to the other idling, just far enough out to sea to allow the ship's casinos to be open for business. It would have been nice to walk around St. Thomas in the early evening, and enjoy the unique experience of a Caribbean island sunset *from* the island. Maybe we could have had time for a drink and some shopping at a relaxed pace after our action-packed day of shore excursions, but as usual: Just follow the money. The casinos need to be open. jpmeyer.com |
![]() | PAYIN' DUES ASAHI AND TIM VS IF LOOKS COULD KILL Asahi(First) and Tim vs Faye Boogie(First) and Casanova Fresh |
![]() | The War of the Worlds #5 Thunder Child Rey watches the valiant grey iron clad, Thunder Child, as it battles the terrifying Tripods. The battle determines the survival of the humans, or the victory of the Martian invaders. Lyrics There were ships of shapes and sizes, scattered out along the bay, and I thought I heared her calling, As the steamer pulled away, The invaders must have seen them, As across the coast they fired, Standing ferm between them, There lay Thunder Child! Moving swiftly through the waters, Cannons blazing as she came, Brought a mighty metal warlord, Crashing down in sheets of flame. Sensing victory was nearing, thinking fortune must have smiled, People started cheering, Come on Thunder Child! Come on Thunder Child! Lashing ropes and smashing timbers, Flashing Heat-Rays pierced the deck, Dashing hopes for our deliverers, as we watched the sinking wreck! With the smoke of battle clearing, All the graves and waves they fired, Slowly dissappearing, Farewell Thunder Child! Slowly dissapearing, Farewell Thunder Child! Please comment! |
![]() | lake erie Northeast Ohio's closest Great Lake, Lake Erie, is being bombarded with more than 150 dangerous and foreign species. These species could spell disaster for Lake Erie's fragile ecosystem if they are allowed to continue to remain living in its currently healthy waters, as well as damage a large portion of northeast Ohio's economy. Some of the invasive species have even been found to carry Viral Hemorrhagic Septicema, a disease very harmful to the fish that now inhabit Lake Erie. The citizens of northeast Ohio need to take a pro-active approach toward dealing with the causes of this infestation of Lake Erie by threatening species, or they will regret the disastrous consequences for years to come. This song will inspire you to help! Lyrics: Hey Lake Erie How's it going? Are you still keeping water Flowin into the ocean? Well guess what that can't happen no more cause you've got invasive species comin through your back door. they come tearing through your waters wreaking havoc all the time and the fact that no one stops them should be thought of as a crime. You've got more invaders than that Game at the arcade 150 different kinds make homes Within your bay. There's zebra mussels clinging to All the hard substrates faster than you clean em up to keep em all away. carp come from the west and ruffe come from the east put 'em both in Erie and you've got one wild beast but fear not lake there's always help on its way in the form of concerned people who care about your fate. they'll take the carp barrier and rebuild its fragile frame until it's up and running stronger than mr. Jack LaLanne. Ballast water Will be inspected If congress Is ever respected. Zebra mussels just need Less things to cling to Or less food to prey on And mud to run into. Surveillance programs keep The ruffe at bay, but Why can't other species have it That way? Start your own program With a group of friends To ensure that the evil-stopping Fun just never ends. With vigilance from citizens To halt invasive things Lake Erie will be happy And everyone will sing: "go Lake Erie It's your birthday We gonna party Like it's your birthday" "go Lake Erie It's your birthday We gonna party Like it's your birthday" And then when Everything is solved Other problems will also Just dissolve. The economy will get a boost With fewer fish dying And less fishermen Will come home crying. The fish will all be glad That you thought of them And they will know that You ain't no fool. So now that you know, Go out, and stop the hate. Don' t let It remain for Even one more day. Because every day you do More fish come into town And whenever that happens Lake Erie starts to frown. So keep Lake Erie happy And block it for all day I know I will, and if I see You I'll say hey. |
![]() | Thunderchild Chipmunk version! There were ships of shapes and sizes Scattered out along the bay And I thought I heard her calling As the steamer pulled away The Invaders must have seen them As across the coast they filed Standing firm between them There lay Thunder Child Moving swiftly through the waters Cannons blazing as she came Brought a mighty metal War-Lord Crashing down in sheets of flame Sensing victory was nearing Thinking fortune must have smiled People started cheering 'Come on Thunder Child' 'Come on Thunder Child' JOURNALIST: The Martians released their Black Smoke, but the ship sped on, cutting down one of the tripod figures. Instantly, the others raised their Heat Rays and melted the Thunder Child's valiant heart. PEOPLE: Lashing ropes and smashing timbers Flashing Heat Rays pierced the deck Dashing hopes for our deliverance As we watched the sinking wreck With the smoke of battle clearing Over graves in waves defiled Slowly disappearing Farewell Thunder Child! Slowly disappearing Farewell Thunder Child! Farewell Thunder Child! Farewell Thunder Child! JOURNALIST: When the smoke cleared, the little steamer had reached the misty horizon, and Carrie was safe. But the Thunder Child had vanished forever, taking with her man's last hope of victory. The leaden sky was lit by green flashes, cylinder following cylinder, and no one and nothing was left now to fight them. The Earth belonged to the Martians. MARTIANS: Ulla! |
![]() | Seattle Celebrates w/Lights In The Sky - 4th Of July 08 UFO'S over Elliott Bay in Seattle? Nope it's 4th Of July 08 and I caught just a Snipit of it on my camera's video Option. [Canon G7 for those who want to know] |
![]() | Lionfish Population Has Scientists Worried PlusLionfish Population Has Scientists WorriedLionfish Population Has Scientists WorriedThe Associated PressScientists and Caribbean governments alike are watching with alarm as the invasive lionfish sweep through the western Atlantic. The venomous lionfish are considered a danger to people, coral reefs and commercial fisheries. (August 4)Netting these beautiful but dangerous fish in the Atlantic is the first line of defense against a fast-growing and hungry army of invaders.A voracious predator, lionfish are an exotic species whose population explosion continues to threaten the U-S east coast and spread further south throughout the Caribbean.Scientists are struggling to understand this fast moving phenomenon ... But they are already sounding the alarm."They have just literally exploded through time, a population explosion - it is like a plague of locusts." Oregon State University Professor Mark Hixon was leading a team of research students studying coral reefs in the 1990s when they first noticed invasive lionfish. They were forced to change their research matter when the lionfish moved in."What we found was that lionfish reduce the abundance of small fish on coral reefs by 80 percent in just a five week period."The U-S government has continued to monitor lionfish spottings and tracked a substantial jump in sightings in 2004."They went up the Gulf Stream into North Carolina and established a population, over to Bermuda and then in about 2004 we started seeing them in the Bahamas."And scuba divers in the Bahamas first started noticing isolated specimens ..."We started off with one fish at one site that we knew of. Then we see another fish at another site and then another one, but the explosion didn't really hit until about 2007, that's when we really started noticing a difference and they were noticed everywhere - in groups of four and five and six fish even in just these coral heads of massive amounts of fish," says Sally Burrows, from the Stuart Cove Dive Company.Andy Dehart, the National Aquarium Director of Biological Programs, says there is no agreement on how the popular aquarium tank fish ended up in the Atlantic.Some believe aquarium breaches during Hurricane Andrew in 1992 released lionfish into the Bay of Biscayne and from there they spread, slowly at first.Experts say Caribbean reefs now face the prospect of turning into a vast nursery for the remarkably adaptable predator.The region's warm waters are allowing the tropical fish to colonize a far greater area than they can up north.There is widespread concern that the demise of the small reef fish will add more stress to fragile coral reefs."If we start loosing these smaller reef fish as food to the lionfish and the lionfish population get out of control, we can certainly be in a whirlwind for bad things coming for the reef ecosystem."Volunteer scuba divers, working with local governments, have established an early warning detection system to track the lionfish's expansion.But some say it may be too late ..."We are not very optimistic at this point that eradication is possible, because the lionfish population has grown so rapidly." |
![]() | Biafara National Anthem The Republic of Biafra was a short-lived secessionist state in southern Nigeria. It existed from May 30, 1967 to January 15, 1970. The country was named after the Bight of Biafra, the bay of the Atlantic to its south.[1] Biafra was recognized by a small number of countries during its existence: Gabon, Haiti, Côte d'Ivoire, Tanzania and Zambia. Despite a lack of official recognition, other nations provided assistance to Biafra. France, Rhodesia and South Africa provided covert military assistance. The aid of Portugal and JCA proved to be crucial to the republic's survival. Portugal's São Tomé and Príncipe, a pair of islands south of Biafra, became a center of humanitarian relief efforts; Biafran currency was printed in Lisbon, which was also the location of Biafra's major overseas office. Israel also gave Biafra arms that it captured in the 1967 Six-Day War, although that same conflict ruled out further assistance. In contrast, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union provided military support for Nigeria,[2] and the war of Biafran secession ended in a humanitarian catastrophe as Nigerian blockades stopped all supplies, military and civilian alike, from entering the region. Hundreds of thousands -- perhaps millions -- of people died in the resulting famine. On 15 January 1966, a coup d'etat in the Nigerian government was attempted and mostly successfully initiated by young military officers with promising futures. They were mainly of the Igbo people. The Igbos were referred to as "Ibo" at the time of the conflict. Since mostly Igbo officers in the Nigerian army survived, in the months of May and September 1966, Igbo migrants living in northern Nigeria were the targets of mass killings. Most of Nigeria's Igbo people, who were then estimated at 7 million, though not statistically accurate, lived in what was then the Eastern Region, which had as military governor the Igbo Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.[3] He declared the region an independent state with a capital at Enugu. Nigeria responded initially with an economic blockade and brought military force to bear starting on June 5, 1967. In the ensuing civil war, raids were made by Biafran troops west into Nigeria in July and August. Nigerian troops soon recovered, however, advancing into Biafra and forcing the repeated transfer of the Biafran capital from Enugu to Aba and then Umuahia by the end of the year, and to Owerri in 1969. This was despite the daring efforts of Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen and a small air force, which had a disproportionate effect on the military situation. Its most famous aircraft were small Swedish MFI-9s, but it also had a typical rebel collection of Western influenced aircraft including Douglas C-47s, North American B-25 Mitchells, and Douglas A-26 Invaders. A Nigerian Airways Fokker F27 Friendship which had been hijacked in April 1967 was the first Biafran aircraft. "A DC-3 and a de Havilland Dove were impounded soon after independence, as were several light helicopters of various types."[4] The independent state of the Republic of Biafra in June 1967.By 1970, Biafra had been ravaged by war and was in great need of food supplies. Nigeria banned all Red Cross aid in 1969, though it partially relented two weeks later after widespread international criticism, allowing limited, pre-inspected airlifts of food and other supplies.[5] Amid economic and military collapse, Ojukwu fled the country and the rest of the republic's territory was re-incorporated into Nigeria. Many people died in the conflict, mostly through starvation and illness. The number of deaths is often cited at one million. Nigeria later renamed the Bight of Biafra as the Bight of Bonny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafra |
![]() | That Calls for a Wilhelm Scream!!! This is a video made by me. The song is called That Calls for a Wilhelm Scream and is performed by the band called Possible Oscar. Wilhelm Scream is a great thing: You can hear it in many films, cartoons and some videogames too! DOWNLOAD LINK: http://users1.ml.mindenkilapja.hu/ users/trc/uploads/PossibleOscar -ThatCallsforaWilhelmScream.mp3 The Lyrics: The legend starts in 1951 When we listened to the sound of the Distant Drums Met his maker in the jaws of an alligator There were six screams taken but one proved to be greater Than the rest so let's fast forward a bit to the Feather River And meet a young private with the lungs that could deliver The kind of cry that only girls vocalize He unleashed a mighty scream as his thigh was incised Ben Burtt, perhaps you may have heard of him He noticed a certain sound emanating from a bunch of films Decided it was perfect for a film that he made So he lifted it and placed it in The Scarlet Blade From that point a sonic signature formed One that Ben used fairly often in his sound design chores To this very day if you happen by his edit bay And you listen very closely you can hear him say That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream Scream a little louder, gotta make a big scene That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream Scream it to the heavens so they know what you mean Over the years the scream has made many appearances It sounded out in Warner Brothers films for 20 years and then The aforementioned Ben created sounds for Star Wars Take four began to show up in movies galore A stormtrooper stumbled into a shaft because Luke shot him Another was chucked into the freezing chamber by Chewbacca Crocodiles enjoyed the Thuggees Indy knocked from the bridge Jabba lost a bunch of henchmen in the Sarlac Pit Mr. Pink smacked some people in the street Buzz Lightyear met a lamp and tumbled head over feet The Caped Crusader punched a clown a tossed him clear out the frame Grenades exploded in The Last Crusade There's numerous other scenes featuring violence and tension Young Indiana Jones has too many Wilhelms to mention I bet the sound designers meet near to here To figure out which films will get the scream this year That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream Scream a little louder, gotta make a big scene That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream Scream it like your lacking proper oral hygiene Now don't believe that the scream can only used on the screen You can use it wherever you see a need Got a problem that should probably have the proper punctuation? Try a Wilhelm, it can emphasize any bad situation That big jerk from accounting just stole your promotion Your dinghy's leaking in the middle of the ocean That eBay idiot gave you negative feedback And the money you gave that bum was converted to crack The lid can't be extracted from your Jell-o pudding cup It's hard to surf for porn efficiently stuck on dial-up All you need is a knife but there's 10,000 spoons They're making a Michael Bay film of your favorite cartoon The Spanish Inquisition tries to burn you at the stake Cavity Creeps gave you a toothache The enemy force is just outside your archer's range That cell phone soccer mom didn't signal her lane change Gotta pee but the urinal's unflushed You find yourself in outer space lacking the right stuff Frequent visits to the store net you nary a chase figure You didn't remember to TiVo the Heroes finale now, did you? Invaders from space leveled all the major cities There's no more freakin' milk for your bowl of Cocoa Krispies Whenever it seems you've been given raw deal It's time to scream it like you mean it, let 'em know how you feel That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream Scream a little louder, gotta make a big scene That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream Scream it like the doctors finally found a vaccine That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream Scream a little louder, gotta make a big scene That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream That calls for a Wilhelm Scream Scream it like you found out she was only sixteen |