'Hitler' skull 'found to be female'

A skull believed by many to be Adolf Hitler's is reportedly that of a woman.
The remnant was retrieved by Soviet forces outside Hitler's bunker in Berlin and was used to argue that the dictator had shot himself on April 30, 1945 before being cremated with his wife Eva Braun.
However, DNA tests conducted by archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni reportedly show that the skull belonged to a 40-year-old woman.
His work partner Linda Strausbaugh told AFP: "All we had exposure to was photographs. What was exposed to us was the side that was charred. Fire is one of the real enemies of getting DNA evidence out.
"The amounts we had were well within the range that you would expect to get DNA samples from. What the DNA told us is that it was female."
The findings have sparked conspiracy theories regarding Hitler's demise and journalist Gerrard Williams told Sky News: "There is no forensic evidence whatsoever that Hitler died in the bunker.
"The Nazi high command had been making plans since 1943 to get out of Germany and to set up a Fourth Reich mainly in South America so they had no need to die in situ in Germany."
However, Professor Christopher Browning of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said of the known account of Hitler's death: "None of it is depending on the alleged validity of a body or skull in Russian possession.
"From the point of view of archival integrity, [the skull] has no standing whatsoever."

Earthquake Point of Washington State

Earthquake Point of Washington State is a pretty crazy story and the pic really dose not give it justice. But if you can think about a mile or so of mountain sliding down like a Iceburg in a shear slice is pretty amazing to see today,but imagine in 1872. I think most people would think it was the end of the world.

On the road side theres a sign below this point that reads,



This site on Ribbon Cliff, called Broken Mountain by the Indians, experienced a violent earthquake in December, 1872. The shock split the mountain, forming the cliff to the west and causing a huge rockslide which stopped the flow of the Columbia River for several hours. The black ribbons of the cliff are lava-filled fissures. Plateau of the region later covered the rock mass. The white volcanic ash in road excavation is so recent as to have buried undecayed logs. It was blown from Glacier Peak, a volcanic cone, 50 miles to the northwest

Music industry wants performance compensation from iTunes

In a new story from CNet, music industry representatives plead their case as to why they are entitled to revenue for downloads of films, TV shows, and 30-second song samples that feature their work. Songwriters say they do not receive enough revenue from the Web to live off of, and they believe they are owed a larger share of sales.

With regards to the 30-second samples shoppers can stream before the buy, industry officials believe they should be paid a "performance" income from Apple, much like when a song is played in a public venue like on the radio or at a sports game. It's the same situation, they say, for movies and TV shows that feature licensed music.

Because negotiations have apparently not produced results, the music industry has reportedly begun to lobby Congress. Their goal: Anyone who sells music, movies or TV shows online would be required to pay a performance fee with that transaction.

"If you watch a TV show on broadcast, cable or satellite TV there is a performance fee collected," David Israelite, president and CEO of the National Music Publishers Association, told CNet. "But if that same TV show is downloaded over iTunes, there's not. We're arguing that the law needs to be clarified that regardless of the method by which a consumer watches the show there is a performance right."

Israelite said that composers and songwriters are traditionally paid not only for the rights to a song when it is included in a movie or TV show, but also a performance fee from the networks or studios.

However, there is a question as to whether an online download could be considered a "performance." After all, there is a difference between a publicly or widely broadcast piece of content, and one simply used in a person's home for personal use, argued Jonathan Potter, executive director of the Digital Media Association.

"They are picking on Apple because they say Apple is making a bundle of money," Potter said. "But these companies should be thrilled that Apple and the other services are selling music and generating millions, maybe tens of millions, in royalties."

Sydney turns red: dust storm blankets city

People in Sydney have woken to a red haze unlike anything seen before by residents or weather experts, as the sun struggles to pierce a thick blanket of dust cloaking the city this morning.

Callers flooded talkback radio, others hit social networking sites and scores of emails were received from smh.com.au readers as Sydney residents expressed their amazement at this morning's conditions.

It's just red, red, red as far as you can see," one caller at the Anzac Bridge told 2GB.
The fiery haze was the result of the sun hitting the blanket of dust, Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Jane Golding said.

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning across the state because of widespread damaging winds, which are expected to increase in force across Sydney this morning.

RIP Reuben Smiley

Last night a dear old friend was driving his HarleyDavidson from Seattle back home to his wife and son over StevenPass and had a heartattack and passed away.

To me its kinda like lossing a family member in a way.I still remember countless time we sat around at the Clearwater (a local bar where he bounced from time to time) and talking about enoughing and everything for hours.Rubin was the type of guy that if he knew you, he would give you the shirt off he back.Not only that but he looked over everyone there kinda like a guardian.Eather by lending a ear to listen or lending a hand to help you get back up.It makes me unbealiveable happy to have known him for so many great years and really sad to have to say goodbye so early.

I would like to think that his heart was so big and giving out to so many people that the people that he touched will take that precuse gift and make his apart of there own.

He truly died doing the one true thing he loved to do,with the wind blowing in his face and living free.

If only we can all be as blessed.

My heart gos out to his family. God speed my friend.... God speed.

Murdering Mirrors???

This bizarre event took place in France in 1997. It would be fine about 500 years ago, during the struggle with witches, but it happened at the end of the 20th century, the most rational century. The event was extraordinary: antique dealers addressed journalists with the request to warn the collectors of antique things not to buy the mirror, which had the inscription Louis Arpo 1743 on the frame. They said that the mirror had killed almost 38 people during the long history of its existence Antique dealers decided to address the media as the mirror had disappeared. It was found missing when a criminal law professor asked to take photographs of the mirror to show them at his lectures. "The mirror was kept at a police station after it had killed two people in 1910. However, someone penetrated in storage facilities and stole several things, including the mirror. We think that the thief will try sell it, that is why we are trying to provide as much information as possible about the mirror to warn potential customers of the danger," a spokesman for the French association of antique collectors said.

The mentioned mirror provoked a cerebral hemorrhage for the people that were looking into it. Some people believed that the mirror was reflecting rays of light in a specific way, whereas other believed that it happened because of the mirror's negative energy that it had saved for hundreds of years. There were some people, who thought that the mirror was a window to the other world. There is no common opinion about the antique mirror, but people still try to explain the reason of mysterious deaths that it had caused.

A mirror is like a magnet: it is capable of attracting poisonous evaporation and accumulate it on its surface. Italian philosopher Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) had a rather scary theory about it: "Old women, who do not have warm blood in their veins, who have horrible smell coming out of their mouth and eyes, find that their mirrors become blurred, because moisture drops of their heavy breath stick to the clear cold glass. If their saliva drops on fabric, the fabric decays. If a child sleeps with an old woman, its days will become shorter and her days will become longer, and a child will die." (Tommasso Campanella, Del senso delle cose e della magia, IV, 14).

French scientists discussed the same question in a hundred years too. A document of the Paris Academy of Sciences, dated 1739, runs: "When an old woman approaches a clear mirror and spends a lot of time in front of it, a mirror absorbs a lot of her bad juices. The chemical analysis showed, the juices were very poisonous.

Some researchers use this property of mirrors to explain a superstition, which says that one should not come up to a mirror during an ailment. Poisonous substances that a sick person breathes out stay on the glass of a mirror and then evaporate, causing damage to the health of the people, who inhale the poisonous air.

However, it was not the chemical sediment of the Louis Arpo mirror that had killed its owners. Poisonous substances on a mirror can be washed away with water very easily. The mirror has been certainly washed many times. However, a mirror might save some information - it would not be insane to suppose that a mirror has a memory.

A mirror in a house witnesses all events that happen there. A mirror reflects dramas and tragedies, stupid and funny things, it reflects beauty and ugliness. At times, people wish a mirror could show episodes hat it used to reflect years ago, to playback the past. A. Vulis wrote in his book Literary Mirrors: "A mirror is always the present, without the past and without the future. A mirror is the incarnation of amnesia. It is a streaming moment that disappears forever once it has been reflected.

It is really very hard to believe that a mirror is like a video camera, but it is not excluded that mirrors are capable of remembering something. Visual images are not likely, but it is possible that a mirror can "remember" peculiar features of its owner, like other things can. Doctor Hans Berendt from Israel conducted an interesting experiment with a woman, who had extraordinary sensual abilities. He asked her to explain the feelings that she experienced from unknown objects inside two identical boxes. The woman said that she had felt a strange feeling of a push from one box, but the thing in the other box was completely different. She said, there was something ancient about it, a dilapidated amphitheatre with huge ancient amphoras. When the doctor opened the boxes, the woman found windowpane pieces in one of them and ancient Roman coins that archaeologists had found in Bethlehem. Glass fragments in the first box were taken from a window that was broken with a powerful blast in Jerusalem that had killed dozens of people.

If all things have certain memory properties, a mirror is not an exception, especially when it comes to the mirrors with silvery amalgams, because silver is the metal of a strong informational capacity. One shall assume that a mirror can radiate the information that it has saved before. This radiation might affect a human being.

One should be very careful before hanging an old mirror in a room. It might be filled with the negative energy. An old mirror with rich history often causes strange dreams full of bizarre images, it might evoke unusual desires, inexplicable fears and so on. Most likely, a mirror remembers the condition, emotions and feelings that a human being had. Most likely, a mirror keeps the information, and remembers not images, but the meaning of them. This meaning might affect the mind of a new owner.

This modern day Nostradamus

Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) has been applauded as one of the most impressive prophets of modern times. At the age of six or seven he was seeing “visions.” Cayce claimed that by sleeping with his head on his school books, he could absorb knowledge, which enabled him to advance rapidly in his education.
He claimed psychic healing powers (three almonds a day is a cure for cancer!), taught the doctrine of reincarnation, and advocated a number of bizarre theological doctrines (e.g., Jesus and Adam were the same person), and said that he (Cayce) wrote the Gospel of Luke in a previous life. As a prophet, Cayce was a catastrophic failure. For instance, he prophesied that during the early portion of a forty-year span (1958-98) a tilting of the Earth’s axis would produce drastic physical alterations of our planet. “The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea,”. Cayce’s apologists claim that he predicted World War II. And yet, Jess Stern, who did more to popularize Cayce than any other writer, wrote: “Edgar Cayce was as stunned as anybody else when the bombs dropped on Pearl Harbor” .

Max the wonder puppy

I almost for got to give props to my dog Max!!!!!

His going on a year and a half.It`s kinda hard to beleave that his mother is a full bread golden retriver. He`s a fetching machine!!! And Max is the best and really has been keeping me out of trouble for the time ive had him.

I just wish I had half the energy that he has. Im sure I will post more about Max and maybe some videos.

Happy post LaborDay weekend!!!

The new Witcher game for next gen consoles.

Braking away from the Pc market "The Witcher" Rise of the white wolf will be coming out for the 360 and the PS3 this fall. Personally I cant wait untell it does.The Witcher was one of the best games for the Pc that came out in a long time in my opinion and if that can match that I think it`s going to be a huge success.

Washington States Stonehenge

One of my favorite places to go on a motorbike ride is to The Maryhill Stonehenge was the first monument in the United States to honor the dead of World War I (specifically, soldiers from Klickitat County,Washington who had died in the still on-going war). The altar stone is placed to be aligned with sunrise on the Summer Solstice. Hill, a Quaker pacifist, was mistakenly informed that the original Stonehenge had been used as a sacrificial site, and thus constructed the replica as a reminder that humanity is still being sacrificed to the god of war. The monument was originally located in the center of Maryhill, which later burned down leaving only the Stonehenge replica. A second formal dedication of the monument took place upon its completion on May 30, 1929. Sam Hill, who died in 1931, lived long enough to see his Stonehenge completed.
The dedication plaque on this Washington Stonehenge is inscribed:
"In memory of the soldiers of Klickitat County who gave their lives in defense of their country. This monument is erected in the hope that others inspired by the example of their valor and their heroism may share in that love of liberty and burn with that fire of patriotism which death can alone quench."