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The ancient art of eating glass
Posted on November 21, 2016	by pinklightsabre
'Girl Eating an Apple,' Godfried Schalcken
I got in the slot on the offramp at the exit I used to take for work, turned left on 1st past the strip club, the pot shops, the Alaskan outfitter Filson—parked at my old office, climbed the steps to the lobby and met Donnie, rode the empty car to the top floor where we got out. I thought maybe it was sad or pathetic I kept going back, like I couldn't let go, but I wasn't sure if that was the real reason and didn't have anyone else to ask, I didn't know.
When we were done he walked me back to the elevator and I asked about his dreams, that I'd been concerned about him—but he said I've got both feet on the ground now, he pointed at them and smiled, and I said I'll see you in the new year, my friend.
I ate a piece of candy and got on the bus to downtown, the south side of it, to watch the sun on the water crossing the floating bridge. Loren was driving up from Portland to meet me in the city for a show, but I got an email saying the show was canceled, I texted him, and he texted back, said just tell me where to go, I don't care anymore.
I got out at 5th and Jackson, climbed the hill to the same intersection I used to take when I lived on Capitol Hill, when I'd sometimes walk to work. There was the same shit apartment some guy lived in with a bunch of heads inside on the shelves. They were the heads you'd put wigs on but they were all bald and dusty-looking and one time I saw him in there just sitting with all the heads looking out the window, facing the same direction.
I didn't know how to tell Loren where to get off to meet me. He didn't know how to use a GPS or didn't want to—we were like two blinking dots on a screen coming closer together with each pulse. I took pictures of the freeway and said I'm on the overpass, just look up. I could see all the cars snaking past the old mental hospital, where Amazon had their first office.
There was a dark, moody bar called Vito's that was rumored to be mob-owned and sometimes people got knifed there. We met outside, but it wasn't open yet. It was the three o'clock hour, still. I told Loren to get out of the car right there in the street and I got in and drove. We went a block up the hill and got a spot by a crappy convenience store and across the road was the Sorrento Hotel from like a hundred years ago with a good, dark bar that has an English feel to it, all the wait staff in black and white.
Loren came back from the toilet and I ordered two Old Fashioneds and he sat down and began to spool out, the divorce update, the new job, the election: the bartender said he picked this place because it didn't have a TV, that was one of his requirements, he put it on the application. They tore out the TV and hung a painting there.
We drove to West Seattle and parked at the junction with the beer bottle shop, the urgency of handcrafted beer and growler fills, the palpable scent of foot odor and dudes in beards wedged in, the storefront windows steamed over, people coming in and shaking off, people talking about beer.
We ping ponged between the beer shop and the corner record store and then across the street to the Indian restaurant with its back bar Anthony romanticized, that's accessed through a special corridor oddly lit, tilted like a funhouse.
In the morning we met with Dawn in our den for a recap over coffee, what Loren could remember of our times before, when we used to live in West Seattle, our strange neighbors, and Dawn, the strange people I knew in Pittsburgh, and then Loren told us about a guy who toured with them in Europe when he was with a band, a guy who attracted an odd following, who did a combination of magic tricks, some singing and spoken word: a guy called Drumgum.
People brought things for Drumgum to eat and he ate anything, including a CD once, that he fit in his mouth and melted with a blow torch so it folded, and he swallowed it.
One night in Holland they were all drunk, the singer in Loren's band, and the singer got up on stage with Drumgum and started eating a wine glass around the top (Loren's lips curled back as he described the way the singer went around the edge of the glass and broke it off piece by piece), and they wondered was this bad, their singer, swallowing glass: like, would it damage his voice?, and yet nothing bad happened to Jason, not a drop of blood: and Drumgum said something like, I knew you had the same talent, I could tell. He described it as an ancient art.
I didn't want to see it, I didn't have to, it was better in my mind's eye. I wondered later if Loren made it up but it wasn't like him to do that and it didn't matter, I believed it at the time. I told them about Bean Loaf and Andrew the Shrew Boy, the circus acts I knew in Pittsburgh, that odd dynamic of self-mutilation as a form of entertainment, I don't like.
I bought five albums and spent $160 (three of them were double), and sunk into my couch with Joy Division, remembered I had a copy of it on cassette my friend Dave Dever recorded for me from LP, his painstaking penmanship with the song titles and track durations, each in a different colored ink: how the analogue recording highlighted the moody, shadowy corners of the songs that just hung there dark and vacuous, it created hollow spaces, reminding me of my own.
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17 Responses to The ancient art of eating glass
kingmidget says:
Years ago, while I was in law school, I went to see the Jim Rose Side Show. Mr. Rose did things like … he ate a light bulb, had somebody throw darts at his back, put a hanger in a hole in his tongue and then hang a leather jacket on the hanger, hang a chain from hooks on his nipples and hang a steam iron from the chain and then, the grand finale … with a sheet to shield us from actually seeing something offensive and a light behind him to show his profile through the sheet, he hung a cinder block from his penis ans swung it back and forth.
There was something repulsive and fascinating about the show from beginning to end. I wanted to rise up and say stop and I wanted the show to go on and I want to go see one of those shows again one day and I don't.
This is the thought I had based just on the title of your post.
Yeah, that's fascinating and I don't really get it. I knew some people who did that and they were really odd, but interesting sorts. The fact this guy Drumgum insists it's an ancient art, where people can swallow swords and it's like a cultivated gift, I find that terribly odd. I like the terribly odd, maybe we have that in common here. Thanks for sharing those weird scenes Mark.
I wonder who the first person was who thought "I wonder if I can swallow a sword" or "gee, what would happen if I try to eat that light bulb?" How does that thought enter somebody's head?
Exile on Pain Street says:
You're both making me ill. And it's only 6:36 a.m.
I think this kind of entertainment goes way, way back. There was a guy named GG Allin who would mutilate himself on stage and physically attack the audience. What a miserable way to call attention to yourself.
Do you know who Charles Bukowski is? This reminded me of his prose. In the good way.
I know about GG Allin but he's the kind of guy I've avoided. Even the fact Frank Black would bash his lips and mouth against the mic to bloody it kind of sickens me, really does. And I love Frank Black, or at least the idea of him. Thanks for the Buke call out, that's super. Bill
Yeah … probably a little too much information, eh?
I especially liked the scene from the Sorrento, the phrase "spool out" which was very good, I knew just what you meant, and the bartender who wouldn't work with a tv. Maybe not the kind of place you'd spend all night but a fine place to start. I don't think I could watch a professional eat a CD or an amateur eat glass. I've always been squeamish but old enough not to pretend it doesn't bother me. Drumgum is a neat name.
It bothers me to think of that guy eating the glass. I think the point for me was more Loren's description of it, his story-telling, how the chicanery of the side-show acts is a kind of fiction writing itself. The Sorrento is the coolest place, a real boutique type of hotel. Best when they get their Christmas stuff out, a good place to retire with a book by the fire, in the lobby. Thanks for reading Kristen and glad you liked it. Bill
Lynn Love says:
Love the way this is all about the odd – odd people, places, names – as if everything is slightly askew, seen and experienced through a curved glass, throwing the images out. It's unsettliing, right from the moment the show's cancelled and you and Loren struggle to find each other.
Some peculiar folk out there. I'm like you, never been interested in that sort of body shock entertainment, though I am drawn to the idea of Victorian freak shows – not for the spectacle, but for the idea of all these outcasts coming together, a place were the 'other' has a home.
Great piece, Bill
Hey thanks for the share and the great response Lynn! It was a weird 24 hours or so, I was excited to write about. Had been mulling it over for long enough I had to get it out, as I think you can relate. I wanted to go much weirder but practiced restraint in the hope for clarity vs. ambiguity, so glad this resonated (the curved glass is a cool image). Thanks for reading, enjoy your day. Bill
It was a great post – slightly eerie, but surreal in the way that reall life can be sometimes. You have a great day too 🙂
like a david lynch film, but real
Yeah, it's those heads without wigs that's troubling, you're right.
This reminds me of something I'd almost successfully forgotten. We were at an Ornette Coleman concert in SF, and after the first set some people dressed in Indian wraps came out, stripped, and started ritualistically piercing one another. Serious holes were made through the women's breasts and big long rods pushed through them. Half the crowd got up and left, but my wife and I were so stunned we sat there unable to look away.
Thanks for the memories, Bill!
Leave it to Ornette Coleman. What would you expect? Gosh, that's sort of awful. I hope they had a cup out for tips.
Is Loren your Neal Cassady?
I visited my cousin in Quebec City last week. She's the oldest cousin and I'm the youngest, but she's the only one I'm anywhere near close to. She's more like an aunt, really. Her cross street is Kirouac, but it's not the same spelling, not the same guy.
Ha, I like that. He's something, not sure if Neal or Kesey. We play those roles for others too, don't we?


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Q: Majordomo broker throughput measurement I am testing the majordomo broker's throughput. The test_client.c that comes along with the majordomo code on github sends synchronous request. I am wanting to test the maximum throughput that the majordomo broker can achieve. The specifications (http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:7) say that it can switch upto a million messages per second.
First, I changed the client code to send 100k requests asynchronously. Even after setting the HWM on all the sockets sufficiently high, and increasing the TCP buffers to 4 MB, I was observing packet loss with three clients running in parallel.
So I changed the client to send 10k requests at once, and then send two requests for every reply that it receives. I chose 10k because that allowed me to run up to ten clients (each sending 100k messages) in parallel without any packet loss. Here is the client code:
#include "../include/mdp.h"
#include <time.h>
int main (int argc, char *argv [])
{
    int verbose = (argc > 1 && streq (argv [1], "-v"));
    mdp_client_t *session = mdp_client_new (argv[1], verbose);
    int count1, count2;
    struct timeval start,end;
    gettimeofday(&start, NULL);
    for (count1 = 0; count1 < 10000; count1++) {
        zmsg_t *request = zmsg_new ();
        zmsg_pushstr (request, "Hello world");
        mdp_client_send (session, "echo", &request);
    }
    for (count1 = 0; count1 < 45000; count1++) {
        zmsg_t *reply = mdp_client_recv (session,NULL,NULL);
        if (reply)
        {
            zmsg_destroy (&reply);
            zmsg_t *request = zmsg_new ();
            zmsg_pushstr (request, "Hello world");
            mdp_client_send (session, "echo", &request);
            request = zmsg_new ();
            zmsg_pushstr (request, "Hello world");
            mdp_client_send (session, "echo", &request);
        }
        else
            break; //  Interrupted by Ctrl-C
    }

    /* receiving the remaining 55k replies */
    for(count1 = 45000; count1 < 100000; count1++)
    {
        zmsg_t *reply = mdp_client_recv (session,NULL,NULL);
        if (reply)
        {
            zmsg_destroy (&reply);
        }
        else
        break;
    }
    gettimeofday(&end, NULL);
    long elapsed = (end.tv_sec - start.tv_sec) +((end.tv_usec - start.tv_usec)/1000000);
    printf("time = %ld\n", elapsed);
    printf ("%d replies received\n", count1);
    mdp_client_destroy (&session);
    return 0;
}

I ran the broker, worker, and the clients within the same machine. Here is the recorded time:
number of clients in parallel
(each client sends 100k )                           Time elapsed (seconds)

1                                                   4

2                                                   9

3                                                   12

4                                                   16

5                                                   21

10                                                  43

So for every 100k requests, the broker is taking about 4 seconds. Is this the expected behavior? Am not sure how to achieve million messages per second.
LATEST UPDATE:
I came up with an approach to improve the throughput of the system:

*

*Two brokers instead of one. One of the brokers (broker1) is responsible for sending the client requests to the workers, and the other broker (broker2) is responsible for sending the response of the workers to the clients.

*The workers register with broker1.

*The clients generate a unique id and register with broker2.

*Along with the request, a client also sends its unique id to broker1.

*Worker extracts the unique client id from the request, and sends its response (along with the client id to whom the response has to be sent) to broker2.
Now, every 100k requests take around 2 seconds instead of 4 seconds (when using a single broker). I added gettimeofday calls within the broker code to measure how much latency is added by the broker itself.
Here is what I have recorded

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*100k requests (total time: ~2 seconds) -> latency added by the brokers is 2 seconds

*200k requests (total time: ~4 seconds) -> latency added by the brokers is 3 seconds

*300k requests (total time: ~7 seconds) -> latency added by the brokers is 5 seconds

So the bulk of the time is being spent within the broker code. Could someone please suggest how to improve this.

A: The maximum throughput is bound by the maximum throughout of the broker, but it's also bound by the maximum throughout of the workers.
It seems to me like you're starting only one worker.  If you read the majordomo protocol specification carefully, it says that the broker should be able to switch up to millions of messages per second, but it doesn't guarantee that a single worker can process millions of requests per second.
Given that the worker treats only one request at a time and uses a fully synchronous dialog with the workers (the broker will not send another request until it gets a reply), it's impossible to squeeze the most out of the broker with a single worker, or even a single worker for that matter: a full network round-trip with the broker is performed between the reply and the next request so the worker spends most of its time waiting.
For starters, you should try adding more workers :-)
EDIT: quick demonstration.
I ran an echo service using a Python implementation of the Majordomo pattern with ZeroMQ.  Of course, this is Python code will full error checking and the C version should be much, much faster, but it shows the impact of having multiple workers responding to replies.
Test setup:

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*1 client

*client sends a max of 1000 outstanding requests at once (initially, 1000 are sent, then the client sends one new request each time it receives a response);

*the client sends a total of 100,000 requests;

Results:

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*Using 1 worker, the client gets 100,000 replies in 13.6 seconds (~7300 RPS).

*Using 2 workers, the clients gets 100,000 replies in 8.0 seconds (~12500 RPS).

*Using 3 workers, the client gets 100,000 replies in 7.8 seconds (~13000 RPS).

Using more clients will yield better throughput in the broker because it will be performing I/O on multiple sockets, but it's not as easy to compute the total broker throughput, so I'll leave you measure that.

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It turns out that Mark Hunt has a neck, after all! Hunto hadn't been subbed in years but he fell prey to the insane squeeze of Aleksei Oleinik in the UFC Moscow main event. The 41 year old Oleinik creaks about the cage like Frankenstein, but his striking is surprisingly effective and once "The Boa Constrictor" pounces on a dominant grappling position his athletic talents start to shine through. It's a pity that Fabricio Werdum had to get himself USADA'd, because otherwise Werdum vs Oleinik (the originally scheduled UFC Moscow headliner) would have been a hell of a matchup to crown the unofficial GOAT of heavyweight submission specialists.
You may have thought that taking a short notice bout on the opposite side of the globe would pose problems for Jordan Johnson – not exactly ideal conditions for your first cut to 185! Yet none of that fazed Johnson, as he smooshed the smaller Adam Yandiev down to the mat and squeezed the life out of him in short order. "Big Swinging" Johnson looks like he could be a force at 185, as long as he can find ways to put increasingly high-level opponents against the cage and on the ground. Yandiev showed none of his old explosion after coming out of a three year retirement.
Sure, it was a pretty interesting looking finish from top-5 UFC light heavyweight Jan Blachowicz, who turned this into a laugher on the ground before squeezing an arm triangle from body scissors position. Unlike some unique subs, this finish had a lot to do with Nikita Krylov's continued inability to master fundamental choke defense. The flashy kareteka, who has been choked out in all five of his career defeats, even gave Blachowicz a clear shot at cinching up a Von Flue choke when he held a guillotine from under side control earlier in the fight. That's the exact same easily-preventable move that Krylov tapped to against OSP back in 2014. Either way, it was a nice day of work for Jan Blachowicz, who picked up his 5th straight UFC win and impressed Dana & Co. enough to pick up an extra $50k for the finish.
Apologies to UFC debutant Khalid Murtazaliev, who toughed out early danger from CB Dollaway and rightfully should have should have earned a clean round 2 TKO stoppage. Instead, this finish became all about Herb Dean, who decided to let a completely motionless Dollaway get bludgeoned with strike-after-strike over an extended, 30+ second long sequence. Past-their-prime fighters get put out to pasture constantly and replaced with new talent, yet the same old refs are trotted out ad infinitum, no questions asked. Perhaps it's time to retire, Herb? Clearly something is affecting the man's ability to make clear decisions, if he's the last person in the arena to realize that Dollaway isn't even coming close to intelligent defense here.
That was unreal. Truly unreal. CB's body language CLEARLY pointed to him wanting out of the fight for over a minute. He flopped to his back in the fetal position and did nothing for over 30 seconds while taking untold unanswered strikes. Horrific stoppage….
Korean Zombie disciple Jin Soo Son stepped up on short notice and smiled his way through a wild, violence-packed 15 minute brawl with former ACB star Petr Yan. Yan is already known as an action fighter, and he plastered Son with an array of sharp strikes including solid straight punches and a dazzling spinning elbow. Son was as game as they come, though, and kept the fight close with return fire that earned a FOTN bonus – though only Yan collected the cash, since the South Korean came in overweight. Post-fight, Petr Yan called for a battle with Brazilian warrior John Lineker. What a scrap that would be!
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Jay Z And Beyonce Have A Fight Night In Thailand-But It's Not What You Think!
Beyonce and Jay Z had an intense fight night, but don't worry-it's not nearly as awful as it sounds. In fact, it looks like it was a lot of fun! The couple headed to Thailand to spend the end of the year together, and went to a boxing match while there!
The couple, who has been in Thailand for several days, headed to Patong Boxing Stadium in Phuket, and sat ringside, of course. We're sure it was hard to go unrecognized, and a fan took some pictures of the power couple, who looked like they were having a great time together.
It makes sense that Jay and Bey wanted to see a Muay Thai fight while on their exotic vacation, as that is the national sport of Thailand. But did they also go as a business venture? Jay, who owns Roc Nation Sports, is delving into boxing with the debut of throne boxing next month! So is it possible he was in Thailand to scout more fighters?
"Boxing has always intrigued Jay. Jay always wants to break ground wherever he can, and he saw a chance to do this with RNS," a source said, according to reports. "They are sexifying the boxing experience, changing things up, never before has there been deejays and performers at a match, they're hoping to appeal to a broader audience." So maybe Jay will be bringing a fighter from Thailand back to the U.S. with him!
After the match, which involved a combined use of fists, elbows, knees, shins, Jay Z was even kind enough to take a photo with the winner of the fight! That probably was even more exciting to the competitor than winning! Meanwhile, this couple has definitely been enjoying their free time lately. Before their trip to Thailand, they headed to Iceland earlier this month for Jay Z's birthday.
What do you think of their trip to Thailand? Do you think Jay is recruiting fighters? Let us know in the comments section below.


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'Human Sacrifice' in Kerala, body cut into 56 pieces in case of Cannibalism
By Prashant Bhardwaj , 12-Oct-2022
Muhammad Shafi, a school dropout, was the "agent" who supplied the two women to the massage therapist couple, Bhagaval Singh and his wife Laila. Shafi was out on bail in a 2020 case involving a sexual assault on a 75-year-old woman
The main accused in the murder and mutilation of two women in Kerala in a case of "human sacrifice" was a man who scoped out women on social media and lured them to the house of the killer couple.
Muhammad Shafi, a school dropout, was the "agent" who supplied the two women to the massage therapist couple, Bhagaval Singh and his wife Laila. Shafi was out on bail in a 2020 case involving a sexual assault on a 75-year-old woman.
Roselin disappeared in June, said the police, and Padma in September. They sold lottery tickets in Ernakulam.
Shafi found them on social media and had them come to the couple's house in Pathanamthitta. He had done so even in the past.
Shafi allegedly promised the victims money to act in a pornographic film. At the same time, he "advised" Bhagaval Singh and Laila to carry out a human sacrifice to end their financial troubles, the police said.
Shafi was "addicted to sexual perversion and delighted in cruelty", said Kochi Police Chief CH Nagaraju.
"Shafi committed acts of sexual perversion on the women. Shafi supplied women for sacrifice and cannibalism to clients," said the top cop.
Padma was strangled, beheaded and cut into 56 pieces by Shafi, the police said. The remains were kept in a bucket.
Roselin was strangled allegedly by Laila, and her breasts were cut off.


Swedish biotech firm Dilaforette and Bahrain-based Arabian Gulf University (AGU) are to collaborate on a Phase II proof-of-concept trial of sevuparin in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) experiencing acute vaso-occlusive crisis (VOC).
Sevuparin is a new polysaccharide drug candidate developed to treat VOC in SCD patients by normalising reduced blood flow.
Dilaforette is a Karolinska Development portfolio company focused on new treatments for patients with SCD.
The collaboration will facilitate the development of Dilaforette's lead candidate, sevuparin, for SCD patients.
Under the deal, AGU will provide up to $1.2m in non-dilutive funding for the trial and assist with patient recruitment.
The deal will improve AGU's clinical research capabilities through training and engagement during the Phase II trial.
The university will receive royalties on future product revenues, which are capped at twice the financial support it provides to the trial.
Patients are currently being enroled for the trial at several clinical sites in the Middle East, including Bahrain.
"Our collaboration with Dilaforette is a landmark moment for both parties, in a deal which is a positive step forward in the fight for treatment for this widespread genetic disorder."
Results for the trial are expected to be reported in the second half of this year.
Arabian Gulf University president Dr Khalid bin Abdul Rahman Al-Ohaly said: "Our collaboration with Dilaforette is a landmark moment for both parties, in a deal which is a positive step forward in the fight for treatment for this widespread genetic disorder, which affects around 250,000-350,000 patients in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) area alone.
"The collaboration also endorses AGU's position as an internationally recognised player in clinical research within the area of SCD."
Last October, Dilaforette started enroling patients for a Phase II study performed in Europe and the Middle East, as part of a partnership with Ergomed to develop sevuparin.
Dilaforette CEO Christina Herder said: "We are very pleased to collaborate with Arabian Gulf University on this important proof of concept Phase II study as we continue to develop sevuparin, which we firmly believe has the potential to improve the quality of life for millions of SCD sufferers around the globe."
Image: Sickle-cells in human blood: both normal red blood cells and sickle-shaped cells are present. Photo: courtesy of Dr Graham Beards.


It is a necessary task. The goal is to have the valuable findings stored on hard drive for extremely easy referencing access.
I'm confident I will get through it all. Without need for much help.
I have downloaded 9/11 TV archives, documentaries, and amateur footage.
Here is an example of how accurate I can get archiving, with just one look at a Gif….
Fakery- frames to 'shear' in a manner not ascribable to any known video artifacts.
Link/download/file...@ 911 TV Archive youtube channel.
Obviously there are going too be ones where I do not have a clue where to find.
I have decided to open a September clues archive thread. Where the forum can work together as a team.
I will place the images In posts on this thread.
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Re: September Clues archive contributions.
There are a few different clips (CBS etc..) on 9/11 taken from this area supposed to be West st.
1 is from "the falling man" shot. I found that easy enough.
The CNN shot (west st ) Do you know roughly where it is located?
Re: GETTING THE WORD OUT!
Fraud- Masking lines appears on trade centre.
simonshack wrote: I sometimes wonder - after almost half-a-decade of analyzing the 9/11 imagery, just why it took such a long time or me (or anyone) to notice the atrocious crassness of it. There are mysteries aplenty in this world, but this particular mystery (why I didn't fully grasp the evident bogusness of the entire pool of 9/11 imagery) has had me scratching my head for a long while. I now realize that this was all part of the 9/11 plotters' plan.
Back in 2007, I made my very first 9/11 imagery analysis: The Grand TV Illusion. Of course, I wasn't quite content with it: the poor quality video resolution at hand left me wondering if I had pushed too far my interpretation of the given visuals. Perhaps I was just looking at standard video artifacts - caused by digital conversions/compressions?
NOT ONLY WAS THE IMAGERY OF AN AIRPLANE IMPACTING THE WTC SHOWN ON TV a digital animation, ALSO THE WTC COLLAPSES were digital animations.
All horizontal/ vertical masking lines/layers now visible.
Highlighted all the masking layers/Lines.
Layers "C" and "D" do actually appear through the WTC-7.
A)---	It is filled with "horizontal" and "vertical" CGI with masking lines which are clearly visible.
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Notes- None applied at current date.
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I always like footage of WTC1or2 'collapses' from top down; the weak, lightweight top (carried by the strong, heavy bottom for 30+ years) suddenly decides to crush the strong heavy bottom ... and creates a fountain of debris (broken concrete, steel, furniture, human beings, etc) as seen live on TV.
For a professional engineer, like me, such a crush down is impossible in reality (http://heiwaco.tripod.com/tower.htm ) so what was seen must have been a Hollywood style, computer generated images, CGI, animation to confuse the viewers.
I have evidently informed US law enforcement agency FBI and been told that FBI is not interested. It seems FBI supports US terrorism.
VIDEO-- FINAL ASCENT - as aired on the BBC.
FRAUD- The Entire trajectory is incorrect.
This other shot also depicts "Flight 175 - as it explodes". Hence, it is evidently (and supposedly) immediately successive to the shot.
This claim is completely unbelievable. This claim is offensive to any photographer's intelligence.
Bond analyst Will Nuñez had gone to his corner newsstand and bought a $14.99 disposable Kodak, hoping to record the smoking tower out his office window "for history's sake," he says. "I remembered an incident back in the thirties when a plane had hit the Empire State Building, and I was always impressed by photos in encyclopedias." Instead, from his perch on the thirty-second floor of One State Street Plaza, he captured the plane's breathtaking blur out his office window, quite unintentionally. In his shot, a colleague, standing before a vast picture window, looks on in silhouette, next to an innocuous baseball trophy, its tiny batter poised on a two-handled loving cup. The plane had streaked by with such speed, Nuñez had not even realized he had caught it on film until he finally got around to developing the roll a week or two later.
- David Friend, Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, p. 13.
Hereby, I challenge any engineer specialized in crash physics to explain what we see in the 4 below videos.
How does this aluminum airliner penetrate the steel structure of the WTC without a single part shearing off?
To be sure, this is a still completely unresolved issue to this day. NOT ONE individual contending that these are REAL videos has ever tackled this basic issue in any sort of scientific, peer-reviewed manner. Peer-reviewed? Yes well, that is a common requirement for any thesis/analysis to be deemed valid by our planet's scientific community.
manufactured for reasons we may easily surmise; Since there are no real videos of the morning's events, simulations such as this serve one important purpose : to convey the idea that "scores of people witnessed the events unfold before their very eyes".
In the top photo, directly beneath the yellow Kodak camera, isn't there something odd about the row of 7 black windows in the building on the right hand side? Shouldn't they be brown, not black - the same as in the photo underneath it showing the same building?
Could someone with better eyesight than I have look carefully and compare these two photos, and especially the rows of windows?
Cheers, LUX I have added yours and re-archived the "STRAW HAT" MAN" Clue.
There are copies of all the CLUES, YOUTUBE VIDEOS, AND GIFS.. on my hard drive. In case anything gets lost, copies of videos are also being re-uploaded to you tube being re-uploaded I'm also sharing on face-book.
I had a closer look, and from the start, I thought it looked like as though there are some windows missing! But as I looked closer, I realized that all is in check. I see exactly what you mean though. But after a bit of zooming in. As far I can see, the black windows add up.


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A principal architect directing RMI's buildings practice, Victor is leading an initiative to encourage widespread adoption of comprehensive building energy retrofits resulting in energy savings of at least 50 percent. Victor has a wide range of experiences in architectural design and planning, with specializations in bioclimatic building and daylighting design.
Using integrated environmental design consulting activities, Victor aims to help transform the built environment into a sustainable built ecology. A registered architect, he has contributed to the design of hundreds of successful green building projects throughout the world that span diverse climates and building types. He has worked independently and with several private and state firms producing architectural design, programming, post-occupancy evaluations and design guidelines.
Prior to RMI, Victor was an associate professor and director of research at the UH School of Architecture from 1993 to 2000 and has overseen numerous energy, environmental and lighting research projects under contract to various state and federal agencies. He was appointed chairman of the AIA Honolulu Energy and Environment Committee 1995–2000, and in 1998 he was named a Dana Fellow of the Joslyn Castle Institute for Sustainable Communities. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the American Solar Energy Association, and a member of the National Academy of Environmental Design Research Committee.
His current research has focused on ecological restoration and on ecosystem services as criteria for green building assessment. This work was published by Elsevier and has been widely presented, including at the American Solar Energy Association and the Towards Net-Zero conference. Recently Victor's research has expanded into building tool application, especially for demonstrating the reduction of carbon, water, and ecological footprints.
EDUCATION & AWARDS
Master of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986
Bachelor of Science, Antioch College, 1980
Licensed Architect, Colorado and Hawaii
LEED 2.0 Accredited Professional
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The 18 Best Infinity Pools in the World, From Cruise Ship Decks to Safari Lodges
We're swimming on the edge.
By Paul Rubio
The Best Hotel Pools in Miami
As the novelty of winter thaws, we're ready for an escape to Miami and its endless summer. And don't worry about being bathing suit ready: These pools aren't all about being seen—the scene allows for unapologetic lounging, family playtime, strong cocktails (not mutually exclusive), and, yes, a little eye candy. This article was originally published in 2016; it has been updated with the latest openings.
At a Hotel in Mallorca, a Retirement Community for Pool Floats
Adopt an abandoned pool float at the Inflatables Sanctuary.
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Best Hotel Pools in New York City
Summer is one of the best times to visit New York. There's a host of free outdoor activities and festivals, the Met museum's rooftop bar is finally open for business, and the city's waterfront restaurants are in full swing (a carafe of rosé at Grand Banks is virtually required). But, it's no secret that NYC is also notoriously hot and humid during those few months. So if you're planning a trip to the city, you'll want to make sure there's a pool on hand to cool off in after a long day of sightseeing in the sun. Here, eight hotels that are worth a stay just to take a dip—and a few spots you can splash in with just a day pass.
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