 | Price is Right Victory Part 2 This is me winning the Showcase Showdown. Barely. Notice how I get locked in the car at the end, much to the dismay of all the stagehands. |
 | KLCC Anti Price Hike Protest - 26 Jan 2008 MORE Details & Pics at http://powerpresent.blogspot.com/2008/01/more-pics-video-56-held-in-anti-price.html Simultaneous arrests were made at several places including outside the entrance to KLCC and the Ampang LRT station. The arrests took place at about 3pm where the protest rally was expected to start. Among those arrested were Dr Hatta Ramli, Trasuurer of PAS and secretary to Protes. At 3.30 pm, some 200 PSM supporters marching from Ampang Park LRT station to KLCC were locked in a standoff with the police. 10 minutes later 12 PSM supporters & leaders were arrested including its secretary general S Arutchelvam Subramaniam after a minor scuffle. 100 supporters lingered on in KL CC before dispersing peacefully. All those arrested were brought to the Police contingent headquarters for questioning. More than 100 uniform Police personnel were seen around the KLCC area well before the rally. A steel barricade was erected at the taxi stand at the entrance from Jalan Ampang to KLCC. Police were also stationed at the Ampang Park LRT station where the gathering was expected to march to KLCC were expected to gather. FRU Personnel were on standby since early morning. No violence was reported. Fifty-six people, including several opposition and non-governmental organisation (NGO) leaders, were arrested for attending a rally to protest against rising prices of fuel and other essential items. City police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Muhamad Sabtu Osman said police obtained an order from the magistrate's court to stop the rally by the Coalition Against Inflation (Protes). He said police dispersed the rally without using any force. Among those arrested were five members of Protes named in the court order: PAS treasurer Dr Hatta Ramli, PKR information chief Tian Chua, Arutchelvam Subramaniam, Simon Oii and DAP leader Ronnie Liew. Others included Parti Sosialis Malaysia pro tem chairman Dr Mohd Nasir Hashim, PAS vice-president Mohamad Sabu, PAS think-tank head Dr Zulkifli Ahmad and Tian Chua's secretary Ginie Lim. Malaysiakini journalist Syed Jamal Zahiid was detained for "asking too many questions". According to Jamal, all he had asked was on what grounds were the police arresting people. Dr Hatta, Tian Chua and lawyer Jonson Chong were arrested while they were giving a press conference at a restaurant opposite the Australia High Commission in Jalan Yap Kwan Seng near KLCC. Dr Hatta told reporters that they would challenge the court order obtained by the police. |
 | Are you ready to go home to 5-D Earth? from http://www.maya12-21-2012.com/ Certain vibrations of fear and hate can not coexist on 5-D Earth. Now is the time to reprogram our minds to the vibration of love because this window of opportunity will not last long. Why will people get left behind? 1. Some people are not spiritually in vibration with the rest of the planet. 2. Some people live in fear. We have two basic emotions: love and fear. 3. Some people place a high value on money. 4. Some people place a high value of materialistic items. 5. Some people are greedy. 6. Some people are control freaks. 7. Some people think the world revolves around them. 8. Some people are not consciously practicing unconditional love to one another. 9. Some people constantly think negative thoughts. 10. Some people are trapped inside the box. Did you ever wonder, Why do we even need to work? To earn money??? What if money didnt exist anymore? What type of work will we be doing in a peaceful, coexisting society? We were taught that we need money and have to work, yet most of our hard earned money goes to the 13 controlling bloodlines who rule this planet. You can continue to follow the flock and remain with these bloodlines or begin your spiritual journey right now! This window of opportunity will not be open much longer. Our 3rd dimensional life is all about the decisions we make and how those decisions affect our daily lives. Lets face it, we all know somebody who seems to enjoy being miserable so its okay if that person decides to miss this opportunity and is content living on 3D Earth. Don't worry about anyone who is evil or corrupted. Their vibrations will keep the locked in this reality. Their evil and darkness is actually needed to awaken people to their true spiritual purpose. You didnt incarnate to become rich and wealthy. Youre here to make a difference on this planet and to witness the Golden Age. Before you agreed to come here, you knew you could make a difference in this world and that you wouldnt follow the flock. If youre awakened at this point, life is truly beautiful. If you havent, including the powers currently ruling this planet, theres still the opportunity to make this transition but the window is closing little by little each day. The boat for 5-D Earth will be departing soon. There are 6.6 billion people on this planet and 6.6 billion reservations made. Everyone has the opportunity be part of this process which only comes around approximately once every 26,000 years. Are you ready to go home to 5D Earth?? |
 | The friendship I once had A mini clip about a girl looking back at the past and thinking of all the fun, joy and memories she and her friends had been through together. Despite being separated and going their own ways now, they would keep this memories locked in their heart. That's the value of a friendship. |
 | Cambodia: CHILD SEX SLAVERY (1of2) [EN&KH] When Dalyn was only 12 years old, she was tricked and forced into prostitution. Locked in a cage with others underneath the brothel, she was starved, beaten and threatened at gun point until she agreed to service clients. International Amnesty should take a look at police chief Hok Lundy and his police thugs. It is shameful that Cambodia has to bare the face for selling young girls while Vietnamese are running the brothels. The issue of trafficking of women and children receives increased attention in the public and the mass media. Confronted with the complexity of the problem and under the shock of sometimes cruel individual stories of victims, one is tempted to concentrate almost exclusively on the criminal aspects of the trade and on the issue of rescuing victims. Many of Yuon girls always sell their beautiful bodies to foreigners to raise their families who are still living in both Cambodia and Vietnam in miserable poverty. In Srok Yuon, it's hard for them to do this dirty business, for there is no freedom at all, is being run wickedly by its Yuon leaders who are the worst murderous violators of human rights on earth. TRAFFICKING IN VIRGINS According to the report on sexual exploitation and trafficking in Cambodia, child prostitutes (under 18 years old) constitute about 15.5 percent of the total number of prostitutes in Cambodia. In the youngest age group, that is from 9 to 15 years old, about three-quarters were reported to be Vietnamese. Although we did not encounter cases of girls under 13 years old in this survey, child prostitution is definitely part of the commercial sex business in Cambodia. The very young girls are worth a lot of money as virgins. Deflowering a young girl is, among some (especially Chinese) groups, believed to have a rejuvenating effect on men. The word used in this context is derived from the Vietnamese word 'khui'. Literally, khui means to open a bottle, to uncork or to make a hole. The term khui is also used figuratively to describe having sex with a girl or woman who is still a virgin. Some men even use the term in the meaning of having sex with a woman, without especially referring to her virgin or non-virgin status. However, women or girls who have had sex already are worth a lot less in the sex business. The first time they can receive $200 to $1,000, depending on the age and beauty of the girl. The second time, she is worth already a lot less, after which her 'value' diminishes even further. These girls or women are so-called khui haey or kouc haey [deflowered already] and therefore have lost their special 'value'. The idea prevails that especially Vietnamese girls are sold to be khui-ed, as a meebon in Svay Rieng commented: "The Vietnamese people don't mind about virginity. They don't care about their daughter losing virginity. They are glad that their daughter can earn much money..." For the very young girls, being forced to be khui-ed is often a traumatic experience. They usually do not know what awaits them. A Vietnamese girl, who lived with her mother next to Svay Pak, was brought to a brothel when she was 14 years old. She remembers: "My mother sold me for the first khui for $500. I did not know what to do, but she told me I had to stay in that place for four to ten days and that she would bring me back home afterwards. Then the meebon ordered me to sleep with a guest. I hurt so much. I cried, I had heavy bleedings. I was so afraid." The bleeding after deflowering is an important sign of virginity of the girl for the meebon and especially the client. In some cases, the meebon will have a doctor do a check-up in order to see whether a new-brought girl is still a virgin. A Vietnamese girl who was 15 years old when she was brought to a brothel was checked by a doctor and declared not to be a virgin. This was not because she had had sex before, but according to the doctor, possibly because she rode a bicycle. Therefore, the meebon put the girl among the "ordinary place" and not among the virgins. A client, who agrees with the meebon to pay a high price for deflowering a virgin girl, expects the virgin girl to bleed. If not, the client will refuse paying anything at all. A 16-year-old Cambodian-born Vietnamese girl interviewed in a shelter recounted how she 'devaluated' after the meebon found out that she was not khui: "At that time we were very poor. Everyone looked down on us, even my sister. My mother told me to try to earn money, so that we did not need to be ashamed with our neighbours who had a lot of jewelry. My mother didn't know that I was deflowered with my boyfriend. She thought that I was a virgin. She talked with a meebon to bring me to khui... They didn't know that I was khui haey. But after sleeping for the first time with a customer, I did not bleed. After this the meebon gave my mother only $50 to take back home." |
 | Propagandhi - Purina Hall of Fame (Live) 30.7.2008 Propagandhi playing 'Purina Hall of Fame' live at Tavastia in Helsinki 30.7.2008 Sleeping masters roused to burning homes from beds. Steeping toddlers plucked from their watery deaths: ribbons, plaques and soft-soap are the ephemeral rewards paid to the slaves whose selfless acts accord a higher value to their masters, while parting gifts (bolt pistols) console the rest. The remainder. Too bad the tributes paid to lives that relegate these thrones to lives spent valuing the runners-up, are known to be neither fleeting nor desirable. But nothing surprises me these days. I just sit and watch the box-cars roll by and wait. Patient. Unattended. A package under a terminal bench. A short fuse to scatter steady hands if I forget to remember that better lives have been lived in the margins, locked in the prisons and lost on the gallows than have ever been enshrined in palaces. |
 | Stanisław Szukalski Polish-born painter and sculptor, Szukalski left his native Poland for Chicago when in his teens. Something of a child prodigy, he returned to Poland in 1934, after being nominated by the Polish government as Poland's "Greatest Living Artist". Unfortunately, the Nazi siege of Warsaw in 1939 resulted in the destruction of the museum and his life's work. Today, original sculptures by Szukalski are incredibly rare, and most are only alive through photographs taken before the museum installation. Szukalski managed to escape back to America, to live the rest of his life in complete obscurity. Developer of the pseudoscientific-historical theory of Zermatism, he spent the rest of his life obsessively writing and creating art to prove a theory that all human culture derived from a single origin on Easter Island after the biblical deluge of Noah. Zermatism postulated that mankind was locked in an eternal struggle with the "Yetinsyny"', offspring of Yeti and humans, who had enslaved humanity from time immemorial. Szukalski used his considerable artistic talents to illustrate his theories, which, despite their lack of scientific merit, have gained a cult following largely on their aesthetic value -- an irony likely to have infuriated the hyper-curmudgeonly Szukalski. Michael Rytel |
 | BD-10 Homebuilt Supersonic Jet Aircraft (1 of 2) Note: This is video 1 of 2, Time 0:00-9:27 It was supposed to be a supersonic homebuilt jet aircraft that could cruise at up to M 1.14 on a single GE J85 and a range of about 1,200 miles. It also was fully capable of exceeding a climb rate of 12,000 Feet Per Minute (achieving 10,000 feet from take off in under 40 seconds) Unfortunately, due to the design of the aircraft structurally, there was an accident and Jim Bede canceled the program. The accident related to vertical tail stabilizer failure when the test pilot was testing Mach 1.0+ capabilities. This resulted in structural failure and a fatal crash. The total price of this aircraft was to be well under $1 million. (Give me 2 days locked in a room and I could have solved those issues completely). Anyways, if this aircraft was fixed and made sound structurally, it would be dominating the the market today. http://www.cdmaximum.com |
 | Alan Warms Yahoo! Yahoo News Videos Hit 200 Million Monthly Streams...and not "Locked in a Video Ghetto" Yahoo! News, the most popular news destination, is experiencing strong growth in the views of its videos. A spokesman told me that monthly viewership is way in the past six months. It has averaged from 150 to 200 million steams per month. I am told views in February were up 163 percent over last February. I assume the Presidential primaries have helped. I sat down with Alan Warms, General Manager of Yahoo! News at the Beet.TV executive summit in Washington last week. Alan joined Yahoo! last year through the Buzztracker acquisition, which Kara Swisher first reported in September. Alan believes that the key consumption is the placement of videos within stories, not in a video library or video "ghetto," as he puts it. He says that despite the explosion of online news sources, the value of trusted brands is on the rise. And, he says that with the scale of its video operations, Yahoo! News is doing well on the monetization front for itself, its content partners and advertisers. -- Andy Plesser Eating Beet Carpaccio at the Embassy of Finland! Being neighbors with the Russians, the Finns love beets too. For our summit last week, the chef of the Embassy made all sorts of beet dishes. I wish I photographed them before they were butchered, but check out this presentation of beet (yes, that's beet, not beef) carpaccio surrounding a giant mound of goat cheese. On the upper right side of the picture, you see home cured gravlox infused with beet juice. Incredible color. And, yum! Beetcarpaccio Embassy Event Drive Massive Video Streams at Beet.TV! Peter Kafka at Silicon Alley Insider reports on how my post on Walt Mossberg's comments at the summit were widely bloggged and has driven extraordinary consumption of video streams on the purple channel. Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 |
 | BD-10 Homebuilt Supersonic Jet Aircraft (2 of 2) Note: This is video 2 of 2, Time 9:27-19:13 It was supposed to be a supersonic homebuilt jet aircraft that could cruise at up to M 1.14 on a single GE J85 and a range of about 1,200 miles. It also was fully capable of exceeding a climb rate of 12,000 Feet Per Minute (achieving 10,000 feet from take off in under 40 seconds) Unfortunately, due to the design of the aircraft structurally, there was an accident and Jim Bede canceled the program. The accident related to vertical tail stabilizer failure when the test pilot was testing Mach 1.0+ capabilities. This resulted in structural failure and a fatal crash. The total price of this aircraft was to be well under $1 million. (Give me 2 days locked in a room and I could have solved those issues completely). Anyways, if this aircraft was fixed and made sound structurally, it would be dominating the the market today. http://www.cdmaximum.com |
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