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Discussion / Sanatoria / Re: Open Door... |
Today at 2:22am |
| Started by Riada | Last post by Sandy_Beach |
WOW!!! That's a really cool building!!! Thanks so much for sharing your picture with us!!! 
Do you happen to have any more (maybe some of inside)?? And where was this building?? |
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Discussion / Daily News / Paul McCartney |
Jul 30th, 2010, 11:20pm |
| Started by Riada | Last post by Riada |
Paul McCartney Plays the White House, Disses Bush
Published June 03, 2010 by:
Mark Whittington
President Barack Obama took time off from the minor distractions of the office, including an ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, a Middle East crisis, a Korean crisis, plus two
wars and a moribund economy to party with Paul McCartney.
The former Beatle was at the White House to get the Library of Congress Gershwin Award for Popular Music. Also present at the festivities were music greats such as Stevie Wonder, Dave Grohl, Faith Hill, the Jonas Brothers, Jack White, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Herbie Hancock, Corinne Bailey Rae and Lang Lang who performed and did obeisance to McCartney and the President.
There was the obligatory performance of "Michelle, Ma Belle." Fortunately the First Lady was not named Rita, Penny, Eleanor, or, especially, Lucy.
All was not love at the White House performance. Though. Sir Paul could not resist taking a jab at the former occupant of the White House. "After the last eight years, it's great to have a president who knows what a library is," he quipped.
As is usual when performing artists venture outside their area of expertise, which for McCartney is composing and making music, Sir Paul was very wide of the mark. George W. Bush, even in the White House, is a voracious reader with a great breadth of intellectual curiosity. Moreover, former President Bush is married to a former teacher and librarian. So it is safe to say Bush knows what a library is and also has likely read a great part of it.
Probably more, in fact, than the current President who, for all of his intellectual pretensions, has a shallow appreciation for anything not included in a Marxist tract.
The sad thing is that Paul, vegetarianism and environmental lunacy aside, is not even the most pretentious Beatle. That honor resides with the late John Lennon, sadly gunned down in a New York street three decades ago this year. One can only imagine how John, whose song "Imagine" is the anthem of every far left fascist who has yet to shoot or slick his way to power, would have made of Barack Obama and his attempts to put the sentiments of that song into practice.
RIADAS RETORT: This is an article written by someone else, not me, I just heard that McCartney made an inappropriate remark while being honored at the white house, that having been said...I love Paul, but this is not too cool, just my opinion, folks!
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Discussion / Urban Exploration / Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered |
Jul 29th, 2010, 11:55pm |
| Started by LionelTrainGuy | Last post by LionelTrainGuy |
Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered
Wed Jul 28, 2010
TORONTO – Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday.
AP – FILE - This 1851 illustration shows the HMS Investigator on the north coast of Baring Island in the Arctic. …
Marc-Andre Bernier, Parks Canada's head of underwater archaeology, said the HMS Investigator, abandoned in the ice in 1853, was found in shallow water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada's western Arctic.
"The ship is standing upright in very good condition. It's standing in about 11 meters (36 feet) of water," he said. "This is definitely of the utmost importance. This is the ship that sailed the last leg of the Northwest Passage."
The Investigator was one of many American and British ships sent out to search for the HMS Erebus and the Terror, vessels commanded by Franklin in his ill-fated search for the Northwest Passage in 1845.
Environment Minister Jim Prentice said the British government has been notified that one of their naval shipwrecks has been discovered, as well as the bodies of three sailors.
Captained by Robert McClure, the Investigator sailed in 1850. That year, McClure sailed the Investigator into the strait that now bears his name and realized that he was in the final leg of the Northwest Passage, the sea route across North America.
But before he could sail into the Beaufort Sea, the ship was blocked by pack ice and forced to winter-over in Prince of Wales Strait along the east coast of Banks Island.
The following summer, McClure tried again to sail to the end of the Passage, but was again blocked by ice. He steered the ship and crew into a large bay on the island's north coast he called the Bay of Mercy.
There they were to remain until 1853, when they were rescued by the crew of the HMS Resolute. The Investigator was abandoned.
"This is actually a human history," said Bernier. "Not only a history of the Passage, but the history of a crew of 60 men who had to overwinter three times in the Arctic not knowing if they were going to survive."
The Parks Canada team arrived at Mercy Bay on July 22. Three days later, the ice on the bay cleared enough that researchers were able to deploy side-scanning sonar from a small inflatable boat over the site where they believed the wooden ship had eventually sunk. Within 15 minutes, the Investigator was found.
"The ship had not moved too much from where it was abandoned," said Bernier.
The masts and rigging have long been sheared off by ice and weather. But the icy waters of the McClure Strait has preserved the vessel in remarkably good condition.
"It's incredible," said Prentice from Mercy Bay. "You're actually able to peer down into the water and see not only the outline of the ship but actually the individual timbers.
Archaeologists have also uncovered artifacts on land left behind by the stranded sailors, who unloaded everything before abandoning the Investigator.
The graves of three sailors thought to have died of scurvy have been marked off and will be left undisturbed, said Bernier.
Bernier said the next step will be to send down a remote controlled video camera to get actual pictures of the wreck. There are no plans to bring it to the surface and all legal steps will be taken to ensure the site remains protected.
Bernier also said the team will use similar technology to find the Erebus and Terror. |
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Discussion / Daily News / Police: Pa. mom cleaned bath with son's toothbrush |
Jul 27th, 2010, 10:11pm |
| Started by Riada | Last post by Riada |
BETHLEHEM, Pa., Mon Jul 26, 05:54 PM
An eastern Pennsylvania woman has been cited for harassment after her son told police she cleaned the bathroom with his toothbrush, then returned it to its holder.
Police in Lower Saucon (SAHK'-uhn) Township say 52-year-old Deborah Woist decided on July 18 that a bathroom inside her home needed a good scrubbing because it hadn't been cleaned in two months.
Her 26-year-old son, Justin Novack, says the scrubbing was done with his toothbrush. He says his mother put it away when she was done.
Novack then called police, claiming his mother applied feces to his toothbrush.
RIADAS RETORT: Bong! Cukoo!! |
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Discussion / Off-Topic / Re: I thought this was cool... |
Jul 27th, 2010, 7:43pm |
| Started by Riada | Last post by CreepyOldGuy |
| I've seen Yngwie many times and he's always slayed! I'd love to take just his instrumentals and compile them on one (or two) discs. I have all of his releases and although there's some cheese sprinkled throughout, his playing is always stunning. |
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Discussion / Urban Exploration / Re: Regal ruins: Palatial mansion near Philly crum |
Jul 27th, 2010, 7:38pm |
| Started by LionelTrainGuy | Last post by CreepyOldGuy |
| All of us Philly guys have attempted this place. The caretaker has a few dogs and he's cop-happy. As soon as you get withing 100 yards of the fence, the dogs go apeshit and this old Korean guy materializes out of nowhere yelling he's already called the cops. |
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