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Deming, NM Occupant Case
In a late June or July 1972, in Deming, New Mexico (USA), Mrs. Hilda McAfee and her mother, driving in the direction of Las Cruces where, about 23 miles east of Deming, she was surprised to see a blinding ray of light.
Amid the strong light, she observed two figures of average height, wearing pale blue overalls. The costume was very large, with wide belts, gloves, and dark boots. On their heads was a case with the dark visor.
The humanoids were not concerned by the presence of women.
They were "repairing" or "working" under a artifact that emitted a blue light, while talking to each other.
They seemed rigid in their movements. Patti Morris, a researcher, said the women believed they had hit the artifact with their vehicle as it was in the middle road. They also speculate that the "light" of the device was used to avoid an accident.
The two women had burning, sharp pains in the chest and arms after the encounter on the road.
Interestingly, the husband of Mrs. McAfee, Mike Rogers, is the brother of one of the witnesses of the famous Travis Walton case.
During the course of his investigation of the Walton case, Field Investigator Raymond Jordan obtained a lead on a possible occupant report in Deming, New Mexico, dating back to 1972. The case was turned over to Field Investigator Patti Morris, who submits the following report and accompanying sketch which was done to the specification of the witnesses:
On a clear but dark summer evening in June or July 1972 (exact day and month uncertain), Mrs. Hilda McAfee and her elderly mother were on their way home by car from Las Cruces, New Mexico, to Deming. Interstate 10 was relatively devoid of traffic as they clipped along at about 65 miles per hour, heading west. At about 23 miles east of Deming the evening was disrupted by a beam of blue light which shone down on them from what seemed to be a short distance straight ahead, and emanating from the same lane in which they were driving. The light was huge and blinding and Mrs. McAfee prepared to swerve around an object on the ground just ahead.
As she pulled around the object, the two women were within viewing distance of two men bathed in the brilliant blue light, but only gathered a quick view of them. They appeared to be of average height and rather stocky. They were clad in pale, blue, bulky quilted coveralls. Mrs. McAfee's mother noted that they were wearing wide belts which matched the coveralls, gloves, with no insignias in evidence. Mrs. McAfee said they were wearing dark boots which reached the mid-calf. Both agreed that the "men" were identically dressed and wore helmets similar in appearance to those worn by motorcyclists, including a visor (dark) which concealed the facial features.
The figures appeared "rigid" and not aware of, or if so, unconcerned about, the presence of the two women. One had his back turned to the women and seemed to be working on something connected with the object located above them, while the other was turned sideways, facing him, and appeared to be talking to his companion. Both were standing flat on the pavement, either beside or underneath the presumed object and the blue light which shone down on them from a point somewhere above. At the same time the beam of light which had been focused on the two women was still glaring at them, and followed the car as it drove around the men and object.
Also noted were black rods estimated to be four or five inches wide located near the "men", but no details were noted. The entire object was described as being obscure and no sound was heard. The only lights visible were the light from above and the spotlight and the object was vaguely discerned as about the size of a truck and sitting high off the ground. Mrs. McAfee said she wasn't certain but that they may have passed partially under the object in their attempt to avoid hitting it.
After they passed the men and the object, the women looked back but all was dark and no trace was seen of the tableau. They later speculated that whatever it was, had used the light to prevent a collision and turned it off after the women had passed it. Mrs. Morris concurred on this point.
An odd aspect of this case is the aftermath. Both women suffered a burning, aching pain in their chests and arms after the encounter, and "even their bones" seemed to hurt. Both ladies thought the pain was caused by the light which was so brilliant it lit up the floorboards of the car and was much brighter than daylight. Neither of the women had ever had a UFO experience before and were totally unaware of them.
Field Investigator Morris was very impressed with the sincerity of the two women who were eager to tell of their experience. Mrs. McAfee is landlady to Mr. "Chaney" Rogers, who is a brother of Mike Rogers, one of the six witnesses to the Travis Walton incident. It was because of the Walton incident that Mrs. McAfee and her mother decided to divulge their experience. Mrs. McAfee decided no one would laugh at them now.
Other information about the site of the McAfee incident: Terrain: flat desert land. Population: sparsely settled. Weather: Clear, warm. Air Traffic: non noticed. Overall time of sighting: five minutes. Noise/odor: none. - Patti Morris, APRO Bulletin, Vol. 24 No. 6 (Dec 1975)
NOTE: Deming, New Mexico had another humanoid encounter on April 12, 1992 as described below:
Near Deming, New Mexico - April 12, 1992 - 2320
The witness was driving on US 180 along the desert and was listening to his CB radio when the radio suddenly went silent and he vaguely noticed a patch of white light shining on a rise over the left side of the road. He then heard a voice in his head telling him to "watch out for the smoke." Thinking it had been the CB radio he replied but there was no answer. Suddenly what looked like a huge luminous cloud of smoke began stretching across the highway ahead, it formed a solid curtain across the road. The witness drove into the grayish-white vapor for an hour. He stopped his vehicle and walked across the road and into a ditch but was still unable to see anything. He suddenly went into a state of paralysis and sensed the approach of two persons. Each person got on either side of the witness and placed a firm grip on his forearms. The beings had long bony fingers. He was then led to a shiny metallic object, shaped like a flattened arch with rounded ends. A rectangular opening appeared on the side of the craft. Next he remembers sitting back on a chair inside the object feeling dizzy and numb. He was briefly alone then two beings entered the room. One being was a male with a round oval face with two large oval black eyes. He was five-foot tall with a thin torso and limbs. The second being was a female, similar to the male being. The witness was then led to a dimly lit room and placed in a reclining position on a chair. He felt a buzzing stimulating sensation on his facial area and felt as if a small object was being introduced into his nose. He was then released and let outside and floated horizontally towards his vehicle. He resumed the drive and the vapor-like fog quickly dissipated.
Source: Richard J Boylan PhD, Les K Boylan, Close Extraterrestrial Encounters
Type: G - When there is direct contact or interaction between a witness or witnesses and a humanoid or entity; either involuntary, as a result of a forced abduction, or as a voluntary contact.
Albert Rosales - Humanoid Sighting Reports
The Roswell Incident: An Eyewitness Account (Haunted: Ghosts and the Paranormal)
Ufos over New Mexico: A True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Land of Enchantment
The Roswell Legacy: The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site
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Just the Facts?: Yum! Giant Cannibal Shrimp -- Manipulative Extraterrestrials -- Spirit Told Man To Dig For Treasure
Scientists: Giant cannibal shrimp invasion growing
An invasion of giant cannibal shrimp into America's coastal waters appears to be getting worse.
Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday that sightings of the massive Asian tiger shrimp, which can eat their smaller cousins, were 10 times higher in 2011 than in 2010.
"And they are probably even more prevalent than reports suggest, because the more fisherman and other locals become accustomed to seeing them, the less likely they are to report them," said Pam Fuller, a USGS biologist.
The shrimp, which can grow to 13 inches long, are native to Asian and Australian waters and have been reported in coastal waters from North Carolina to Texas.
They can be consumed by humans.
"They're supposed to be very good. But they can get very large, sorta like lobsters," Fuller said.
While they may make good eatin' for people, it's the eating the giant shrimp do themselves that worries scientists.
"Are they competing with or preying on native shrimp," Fuller asked. "It's also very disease-prone."
To try to get those answers, government scientists are launching a special research project on the creatures.
"The Asian tiger shrimp represents yet another potential marine invader capable of altering fragile marine ecosystems," NOAA marine ecologist James Morris said in a statement. "Our efforts will include assessments of the biology and ecology of this non-native species and attempts to predict impacts to economically and ecologically important species of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico."
Scientists are uncertain how many of the giant shrimp are in U.S. waters.
In 1998, about 2,000 of the creatures were accidentally released from an aquaculture facility in South Carolina. Three hundred of those were recovered from waters off South Carolina, Georgia and Florida within three months.
Farming of the giant shrimp ended in the United States, but they were caught again off Alabama, North Carolina, Louisiana and Florida.
Five were caught off Texas last year, according to Tony Reisinger, country extension agent for the Texas Sea Grant Extension Service.
Scientists don't know if there is a breeding population in U.S. waters. Tiger shrimp females can lay 50,000 to a million eggs, which hatch within 24 hours. Or the shrimp may be carried here by currents or in ballast tanks of marine vessels.
The latest study will look at the DNA of collected specimens.
"We're going to start by searching for subtle differences in the DNA of Asian tiger shrimp found here – outside their native range – to see if we can learn more about how they got here," USGS geneticist Margaret Hunter said in a statement. "If we find differences, the next step will be to fine-tune the analysis to determine whether they are breeding here, have multiple populations, or are carried in from outside areas." - CNN
NOTE: I can attest that I have eaten Asian Tiger Shrimp...they are fantastic! The local fish mongers here in Baltimore have been selling these prawns for decades....and they are HUGE! Lon
Manipulative Extraterrestrials rather than human beings control Earth
Why do our efforts as humans beings to affirm our quality-of-life seem to have been frustrated? If you asked yourself, your friends, neighbours, family members and others, you might find out some basic generalities. As humans, we prefer peace to war. We prefer to have our rights protected, rather than subverted. We tend to prefer to have our environment protected rather than destroyed. We tend to also prefer a caring society rather than to have a "survival of the fittest society" in which people who are not financially successful, are basically left to rot.
As humans, we tend to embrace concern for the welfare of others and other species, from our pets, to wildlife. We also value "material comforts" but not to the point that it sacrifices our fundamental concerns for our quality-of-survival. Yet, as human beings, we seem to be also "governed" by values which our alien to our sensibilities.
Our environment is being destroyed; war rages despite our desires for peace; and people are being left to rot in our communities, and globally. In Canada, for example, virtually 100% of Canadians polled wanted aboriginal treaty rights settled. Yet, in a supposedly developed democracy as Canada, there seems to be no hope for such a settlement. Why?
Dr. Michael Salla and his colleagues suggest that the apparent alien values which seem to be controlling humanity's governance are literally 'alien'. According to Dr. Salla, Earth's problems can be tracked to an "unacknowledged extraterrestrial presence", and that reality forms a major challenge in the public grasping political challenges for the affirmation of human quality-of-living on Earth.
Dr. Salla writes in Exopolitics: Political Implications Of The Extraterrestrial Presence : "The military-industrial-extraterrestrial complex (MIEC) of interests currently controls most information concerning the extraterrestrial presence; and [also] dominates government institutions around the planet; financial interests; the mass media, and is responsible for systemic global problems."
In this report, Dr. Salla describes "the main extraterrestrial races most commonly referred to in the literature, [and] who appear to have most strategic significance for the evolution and sovereignty of humanity, and [for] their impact on a range of systemic global problems." Dr. Salla cites problems from environmental problems to war to the drug trade aimed at destabilizing communities, through mass-intoxications and an ensuing culture of violence.
Michael Salla "distinguishes between these extraterrestrial races on the basis of their belonging to one of either two distinct categories. The first category contains extraterrestrial races which with Earthbound operatives form "MIEC". Dr. Salla claims an "extensive set of interlocking agreements between these races and operatives suggests, the existence of a military-industrial-extraterrestrial complex of interests."
Dr. Salla elaborates that: "The systemic global problems caused by the MIEC are an increasing burden and immediate threat to human freedom and sovereignty." Dr. Salla includes shape-shifting aliens as the "humanized face of aliens" in his research. Dr. Salla suggests that "the alternative is [for human beings to find strategies] to work with those extraterrestrials outside the MIEC, that have emancipatory and ethical rather than a manipulative and control agenda. - lecanadian
The Myth and Mystery of UFOs
Extra-Planetary Experiences: Alien-Human Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness
The first "vampire" patient in Vietnam
Dr. Nguyen Duy Hung, Secretary General of the Vietnam Dermatology Association, told VietNamNet that the patient is only five years old and she comes from Soc Son district, Hanoi.
The patient was hospitalized over a month ago, with acute wounds on her skin. There are hundreds of blisters, with liquid inside, and scars on the girl's body, particularly on exposed parts like face, neck, arms and legs. The skin that is covered by clothing looks normal.
These scars have deformed the girl's face, arms and legs. Her fingernails and toes are atrophied because of scars.
The patient is also very hairy and she does not develop normally. She is only 13 kilos in weight and has anemia.
Doctors made a lot of tests and diagnosed that the girl contracted a rare innate disease called Porphyrin syndrome. This is a genetic disease.
According to Dr. Hung, this disease is uncommon in the world, with around 200 cases recorded worldwide so far.
The doctor says that this disease is also called "vampire" disease because the skin of patients gets injured when it touches sunlight, leaving terrifying scars and atrophied limbs.
Dr. Hung adds that there is no measure to treat this disease to the very roots. Doctors can help deal with anemia and skin wounds, and in some cases they can perform bone marrow transplant.
The doctor says that this is the first "vampire" patient treated at the Central Dermatology Hospital, or perhaps the first in Vietnam.
The patient is the youngest child in a family with four children. The patient's second brother had similar symptoms but he died at the age of seven.
The patient has left hospital but the family and the hospital has maintained communications. The patient will be examined periodically.
This disease can be detected very early, during pregnancy.
This disease can be mistaken with other skin diseases. - vietnamnet
NOTE: the images are just too gruesome...so I decided to leave out. Lon
Man rescued from back garden hole after spirit told him to dig for treasure
The regional Tactical Rescue Team and other emergency personnel worked on Friday night to get a man out of a large hole in the backyard of his Elkhart, Indiana home. According to the 25-year-old man's father, a spirit had told him to dig for treasure, and that's what he did for three days before becoming mired in dirt and water.
The father said the spirit told his son there was gold buried in the backyard of the home, which they are renting. The father helped him dig for three days until hitting water, which the son was sucked into and became stuck up to his knees. The father made it out alright.
Firefighters, who arrived at the scene at around 6:30 p.m., found a hole about eight-feet deep that became a tunnel at the bottom. They used a vacuum truck to suck out the water and sand and used plywood to hold up the side walls.
At around 8:30 p.m. the rescuers were able to pull the man up on a ladder. He walked a short distance to a waiting ambulance where he was given IV liquids and taken to Elkhart General Hospital. The father said his son is under observation and is doing OK.
U.S. Military requesting 'magic bullets'
It sounds like something from a science fiction film, but soon, a 'magic bullet' that floats around in the air waiting for its target could become science fact.
This far-fetched sounding piece of ammunition isn't designed to kill, though.
Called 'Nonlethal Warhead for Miniature Organic Precision Munitions', there isn't even a prototype yet - but it's on the U.S Army's wish list.
It's been requested through the U.S Government's 'Small Business Innovation Research' program, which encourages companies to research and build products in return for a potential commercial deal.
For the floating bullet, the Army admits that 'this effort will require innovative research and advancements in non-lethal technologies which can be packaged within a very small volume and weight' and suggests that designers should consider 'mechanical, such as rubber balls; acoustic; chemical; electrical; or dazzle'.
The idea certainly isn't pie in the sky, as the U.S Army already has a 'kamikaze' robotic drone dubbed Switchblade, which quietly hovers before dive-bombing and blowing up a target.
It launches from a tube before its wings fold out as it flies into the air.
The U.S. Army is paying manufacturer AeroVironment $4.9million for the drones to help it develop a new way of killing suspected militants.
The drones have a miniature electric motor and transmit live video from overhead, which helps soldiers identify the enemy.
The operators can then send a message to the drone 'to arm it and lock its trajectory onto the target', the company said.
The drone will fly into a target and detonate a small explosive - but it can still be disarmed at the last moment even if it is heading for a kill.
The Army's Close Combat Weapons Systems (CCWS) signed the contract for the drones with AeroVironment last June. - dailymail
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Reader Submission: Unknown Entity
Researcher and friend David Garrison forwarded a few emails sent to him by one of his paranormal newsletter readers in Connecticut:
Last Thursday night I went out on my back porch to smoke a cigarette. I let my dog out first, and he went off to the left about 10 feet away. I heard a rustling noise to my right but didnt see anything. I looked at the dog to see if he heard it but for some reason he didn't. I immediately looked back to the noise again as it rustled a second time. The thing stood about 2 feet tall. I actually saw it lift it head up and look at me.We locked eyes for about 3 or 4 seconds before my dog ran over there. David, this thing had red eyes...They were BIG round eyes. I could see the whites of the eyes and I could see a brownish color in the middle. Here's where it gets freaky. Around the whites of the eyes was glowing red. Not as if a light/glare caught it's eyes. But it wasn't normal. It was a red glowing outline around the eyes. I could barely make out the rest of the body...but the head was, the only way I can explain it is the head looked like a Gremlin from the movie before they went bad. Round head, and ears much stouter than a cats ears but i could make them out. It almost looked as if it had 2 tone patches of fur, light and dark. He also disappeared right before my eyes. Between the time that the creature and I locked eyes....my dog was onto him...he ran over & expected him to chase it. He got to the spot and looked around. I figured I was mistaken about it disappearing and it ran off behind the fence and into the woods. So I listened. I listened for it to run because there's leaves everywhere over there. My dog got to the spot and looked dumbfounded. He spun around. It was gone. I took one step forward to look up into the trees to see if it ran up the tree to escape my dog. The moon light the trees up & I could see clearly there was nothing in the tree. I don't know what to make of this, but it's been nagging at me.
Here's something weird I've been thinking about...I set my alarm for 3:00a.m. to get up for work. Between 3 and 3:30 a.m. I let dog out for a pee before I leave the house at 4:00 a.m A few days of the week, as soon as he steps off the porch, he sees something and chases it. I have yet to see what he chases. This behavior has been going on for months. I hear him in the woods chasing something then he will bolt out and chase it thru my open yard. I always thought the thing got away but then he doesnt stop. He chases whatever it is back into the woods. I NEVER hear or see what it is he's chasing. Until I saw this thing the other night....I never thought about it....I have tried to see what he chases more than a few times. I assumed a rabbit, or cat etc, but I have never once seen or heard it. But he does. I dont know what to make of this. I have tried to rationalize this as to maybe the thing I saw was a racoon, or an owl. I know what I saw. I told an acquaitance about this experience and he said that because this was Indian land (Mohegan's & Pequots) there's weird things that go on.
Please don't think I'm nuts David, but I'm a little freaked out only because I know what I saw. As far as I know there's no animal with glowing red eyes. And tell me how the F*** it can just disappear like that. My dog was a bit freaked too. The thing didn't have time to run away from the dog....just poof it was gone.
Anyways...Not sure if you know about this subject, or have heard about anything or type of creature like I have described please let me know. I'm a little freaked out, but I am curious too. I have to be nuts, because I'm sitting here telling you that I have a creature on my property with red eyes that comes close to my house and around my yard that friggin disappears! Please get back to me and let me know what you think. Thanks for listening to me rant, sorry to bother you lol~ Kelly
Follow-up email....
Well, I have an acre and a quarter. It's a huge lot that has trees and also open spaces. There's an old stone wall out back at the property line and behind that, there's 7 acres of non-access woods behind me.There's also a lake with a damn within walking distance by road or thru the woods. Also, someplace in that woods....i have never been the kids go exploring there is an old abandoned boy scout camp. There's old abandoned boats, a huge lodge and a bathhouse. There's antiques in the lodge. No one goes back there. Some friends of mine did a ghost hunt a while back at my house & most ended up going to the boy scout camp instead when they found out about it.The name of the lake is oxoboxo lake. It's supposed to be some type of indian name, and that's the name of my street, oxoboxo cross rd. spelled same forward as back. The name of the town I live in is Oakdale. It's actually the village of Montville. At one time the Mohegan Indians owned most of the land there was some type of war between the Pequots & the Mohegans way back. They both have casinos now & own a ton of land. Most of my property is very rocky. Nice lawn but it seems to be on a rock ledge. My neighbor had to blast to put in a pool. That's about all I know off hand. I'll put in a link of the town. As you can see it's a huge indian area.
Thanks for getting back to me.
Subsequent email...
One other thing...from the day I moved in here I hated being outside in the dark. Even during the day. I always felt like I was being watched from the woods, which is even creepier when I have to go to work in the middle of the night. I've never been comfortable here. My daughter either.When i go outside to go to work...I park my car as close as I can to my back porch so I can just jump in my car. sometimes it's almost in a panic state because I think something is outside close. weird, I know. I'm not normally a fraidy cat, but that's a huge issue I have had with this place, and I can't wait to move because of it. Thank you for taking the time :)
David forwarded a few links that may shed some light on the Kelly's experiences:
Mohegan People
Mohegan Heritage
The Mohegan Tribe
Today, David forwarded an interesting response to his post:
Hi David. That's a trickster spirit known to the Algonquins as Nanabozho (pronounced Nanaboozhoo). Other names are Wabooz (pronounced WaAbooz) and Mishaaboo (in English Mich a bou). This is a shape-shifter, trickster spirit that likes to show itself as a huge rabbit; a frog; porcupine; skunk;a reptile-like creature and a coyote, (on the plains). Also can appear as a child - adult. In their religion Nanabozho was the Trickster & Co-creator of the Earth; is heroic in nature, (fought Paul Bunyan eventually killing hin with a Red Lake Walleye). As with most Algonquin concepts, his appearance represents a dual message; he brings strife along with human error & stupidity, (their words not mine). The idea, rather, reason for his appearance is to bring about spiritual transformation & growth. He shows up when there is something "not right" about the way the person is living, (often personal and/ or leud interferences in the viewer's life). He comes to point out strife in the person's life in order to restore balance to the their life and also to the land. (He is very territorial). I've been waiting for this question since Tuesday and so I dusted off my notes and reconnected myself with him. He is as old as the Miamis; the Micmacs; the Mohegans & the Mohicans themselves. He is there to restore some balance to the land and the life of the person living there. Hope this helps.
...he will be showing himself more & more as Treaties continue to be broken...There has been a string of political moves from local governments all the way to Federal that jeopordize several treaties from 1836, etc. from treaties to protect the waters to preventing mining on Native lands. The more this occurs; the more he will show himself to those who live on Native lands. He restores balance through strife.
*Thanks to David Garrison for submitting these correspondences...Lon
Uncas: First of the Mohegans
The Long Island Indians and their New England Ancestors: Narragansett, Mohegan, Pequot & Wampanoag Tribes
A Vocabulary of Mohegan-pequot (American Language Reprints)
Connecticut Between old John Uncas, young John Uncas, and several other Mohegan Indians, on behalf of themselves and the rest of their tribe, by John Mason and Samuel Mason, gentlemen,
Uncas and Miantonomoh; a historical discourse, delivered at Norwich, (Conn.,) on the fourth day of July, 1842, on the occasion of the erection of a ... man's friend, and first chief of the Mohegans
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Reader Submission: The Claw
I was contacted by Jonathan F. who had previously submitted It Was A Fairy Good Evening and promised to forward anecdotes about other strange encounters he had experienced. After he read Unexplained Events, Jonathan F. forwarded the following email:
When we spoke last, I had told you that there were other events that happened in my life that I would eventually find time to send you. This fella beat me to the punch on one of them. So strangely enough, this event is almost exactly what happened to me a few years ago while in college myself. However, there are a few differences in experience I'd like to share with you now.
Back in about 2008, I had split up with my girlfriend and moved in with my Dad while going to college in Pittsburgh PA. He lived in Bethel Park, a very populated and relatively nice community. He had given me a spare bedroom on the second floor which had 3 windows in it. It wasn't very big, but it held my life's essentials while attending college. One night, around spring/summer in '08, I was laying in my bed, laying on my right side, thinking about life and just reflecting on stuff when I started to feel a strange tingle throughout my body (I didn't quite notice a droning sound as John T. described, being that I lived in an area where dumptrucks, 18 wheelers and many other large motor vehicles were only a few paces from my window on the ground below passing by day and night). I hadn't began to "drift" into sleep at this point and I took a quick and sharp notice to this feeling that I was getting. It made me feel "light", as if my bodies density was lessening and I was not as "armored" without that density, if you will. I didn't fight it because I always have been intrigued by the supernatural and paranormal (probably even to a dangerous level of curiosity at times). Instead, I focused ON it and tried to encourage it to see what was to come next. What happened next, I did not like. Suddenly, I felt something dark, something negative. The best way I can describe it is like this:
A giant invisible 3 fingered claw began to "scrape" my soul from my body, slowly extracting it one gradual pace at a time. It started at my feet and scraped its way up my legs and to my torso. When it hit my upper chest, it scraped outward from my body. Think of a garden claw scraping a hole in fresh topsoil - very similar to what I was feeling. Every time it made a pass up my body, I felt less and less in control of my body - I still had control of my mind, but fear began to consume it. My body felt as if it were paralyzed and numbed to much feeling, as a parasite would do when attaching to its host. Now, imagine with me if you can, that since this claw had no physical form, it still had an energy - a dark and negative energy. It instilled terror into my heart and I "saw" it in my mind, what it looked like - it's color, texture, the giant nails on each finger, every bumpy knuckle. But when I "saw" it in my mind, it wasn't like some vision you would imagine a prophet being given from a higher power like in movies or something. Instead, it was just like a thought you would have about what your truck looks like or your house or dog. It is a detailed image, but just an image in your mind when you're thinking about something. Ok, so now I'm laying on my right side, I feel this tingle, I kind of like it so I "welcome" it, all of a sudden, I feel the claw scraping through me and pulling MY energy, my soul, out of my body. The only thing I could do was pray, which I did and it was the Lord's Prayer, just as John T. did. As I prayed, the scraping continued but got very weak until finally it was gone. I felt my blood rush back into my body and I lifted my head from my pillow and looked around, not sure what the hell just happened to me.
In all 3 windows, I never noticed anything that seemed like it could be related to extraterrestrials - I didn't lose time, I was conscious the whole time, no strange lights or voices, etc. Instead, this was something completely spiritual...but it was evil. I'm no saint and I don't even know how to be. But I do know evil, and so does every single person in this world when their soul encounters it. I've always been a firm believer in a spirit, a soul and God. Whether its simply the power of believing in "something" that gives you control over the power within, or wether it is actually believing in God directly, you must still believe in good an evil. If there is one thing I know about existence, it is that it is all a balance - in every little tiny or hugely massive thing - from day to day life to quantum physics, the one rule is; there is a balance. Black and white, good and evil. I can't explain more than that of my event, other than I know it was evil - and with faith and the power of prayer, I was released from its grasp.
I drew a picture of what I saw in my mind and since it happened, the image in my head has not lost an ounce of detail. Maybe I saw it because I'm visually inclined, but this is what I believe was scraping through me, could it be seen through "our" perspective. - Jonathan F.
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Just the Facts?: Green Cloud Over Moscow -- Congo Cannibals -- 'They' came on my boat...
Strange green cloud over Moscow...locals freaked!
Because far from paranormal or the onset of war, according to officials in Moscow, it is nothing but pollen.
As people around the capital began to gawk at the seemingly ashy substance and reported being covered in what was thought to be dust, Twitter came alive with conspiracy theories.
Prior to the announcement users like GadgetExpert took to Twitter to say 'What the hell Is this giant green cloud in Moscow? Something highly strange is going on.'
Ruskin147 added 'Russian tweeters reporting green cloud over Moscow, rumours of chemical accident,' and russian_market said 'there is one BIG GREEN CLOUD OVER MOSCOW..... Spoooky.'
Even the city's tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda ran the headline 'Green clouds are coming toward Moscow, could it be that the apocalypse is upon us?'
Pictures and videos soon littered the internet, some showing green film covering windows in the city centre.
But following growing speculation Russia's Interfax news agency reported they had word from government sources who said: 'High heat, which came to the Moscow region with an intense wind, caused the formation of a large amount of pollen, which, mixing and moving in the air, can form such a cloud.'
Later reports suggest, more specifically, that it is in fact being caused by birch pollen.
But some social network users are still far from convinced.
MadmanCrow said: 'Green cloud over Moscow reported to be birch pollen? Sounds like B.S. to me.' - dailymail
Congolese Conflict: Surviving Cannibal Soldiers
We don't know much about Maria. A photographer named Marcus Bleasdale met her in the Democratic Republic of Congo in August of 2003. She was breastfeeding one of her three children, resting the infant's head on her good arm. Her other arm ends at the elbow, where it's capped by a fresh cast that reads "31/8," probably meaning that it can be removed on August 31. Her older son is also in the frame, bandages dangling from his scalp.
Maria told the photorapher that she lost the limb defending her children from one of the militant groups then terrorizing Ituri province, her home. Soldiers hacked it off at the elbow and ate the flesh. Maria does not say if the soldiers forced her to watch as they cooked and consumed her arm, but she would not have been the first in Ituri's war. When the sub-conflict of the Congolese Civil War peaked from 1999 to 2003, stories of cannibalism started to trickle out.
Stories like Maria's, and the larger Congolese conflict of which it was a part, are something we still talk about today. An art exhibit, meant to raise awareness, is currently shuttling Maria's photo around the globe, showing it and others to people in the highest levels of government. But the reasons we talk about Maria are nearly as complicated as the story itself, which is now mostly over, and risks over-simplifying our understanding as much as aiding it. - Continue reading at A Congo Mother Survives Cannibalism to Save Her Children
'They' came to my boat....
Crisfield, MD - unedited: Beginning November 2011 (dont laugh) I built a radio from a quartz crystal and my high frequency ships radio on my sailboat...and through focusing my frequency I asked UFOs, inter-dimensional beings, ETs and beings that are here to help the planet come join me on/in my sailboat to help me heal the world. There is a lot more to this, as "just believed they were there" and "thanked them for their time and for coming."
After about two months of calling them through my radio and then "holding a healing service for the world," I was directed to begin photographing the inside of the boat...and to my surprise, there were many beings, orbs, "things that I cannot explain" and phenomenon of all kinds showing up in the photos. After a while, some of these things began to be visible to my naked eye.
Soon "I was told" that the inside of the boat had become too crowded" and that "they" had moved outside. In short, I believe that I opened up a portal to another or several other dimensions...but that is not the point. I knew what I was doing and I knew what I expected to happen and it did.
I asked beings and UFOs and entities and "things" from many dimensions to come and help me pray for the world (again dont laugh...as the photos speak for themselves). "We" held a "service" for one hour every single day for five months...and every single day many unusual beings and UFOs and entities came and either I assisted them or they assisted me. Soon, "they" allowed me to take their pictures. And within three months...thousands of beings and "universes" of all kinds began showing up in, on, around the boat.
It will be difficult for me to describe each photo (as I need to do) in this forum. So, someone from Mufon please contact me with an email address to send the photos and the descriptions to. I will include a few photos...but here is the point:
"They" came to my boat because I asked them to...and they kept coming back because I thanked them for taking time out of their busy schedules and for helping us here on earth. We are not alone. We have a lot of help...if we ask and if we are appreciative. Further, these beings are very real as you can clearly see by the shadows they cast. But more interesting is the fact that our physical reality is a tiny pin prick of the incredible reality that exists in other dimensions...and I have been allowed to pier into those realities. I guess they showed themselves to me so I can share with the world that "they are here." "They are here to help." "They are very, very real."
I will be happy to share my extensive collection of photos with anyone who requests...and share the rest of the story. I am putting a website together and will have my photos, experiences and story online soon.
Most of the photos are self-explanitory. However, the photo of me up on top of the sailboat mast-you will need to look for the black object just below me and to the right of me in the base of the clouds and bring that object in by blowing up the photo. My experience with these UFOs is that they are either drones or some different type of life form...a living entity very different than an organic life form we are used to seeing on earth. Anyway...this guy came around a lot.
As for the black/greyish being that is in the photos...most of him is sort of in my refridgerator. I have two photos of him. He is very real as noted by the shadows cast on the floor and walls.
As for the rest of the rockets and tiny universes and energy beings and light orbs and UFOs (those are the bright lights in the busy photos)-that will take a lot of explaining...some of the phenomenon I could clearly see with my naked eye and some was/is (I still have the phenomenon around me) when I photographed them.
Note: the first photo of the orb inside my boat was the beginning. If you load this photo on your computer and blow it up and look around, you can find over 25 light entities in just this one photo...and this is just the very beginniing. Subsquent photos have hudreds. Please let me know where to send the rest of the photos. Enjoy. - MUFON CMS
Locals fear 'kung fu' guinea pig
Locals in Hradok, Slovakia, are living in fear of a kung fu guinea pig. The pint-sized ninja terrified dog walker Marta Domotorova when it attacked her Hungarian pointer dogs during a stroll on heathland near her home.
With a series of spinning kicks and leaps the fearless rodent saw off both the hapless hounds as they tried to play with it. "Bona started barking and Meggie wanted to sniff it.
"I guess it got pretty scared although both dogs are harmless and just wanted to play," said Marta. But then they got pretty scared when the guinea pig started its kung fu chops," she added.
Local wildlife experts believe the furious furball is a household pet that's either escaped or been abandoned. "It's not the first time we've heard of this. These creatures are usually docile family pets but when they feel threatened they will fight for their lives like any animal that thinks it's been cornered," explained one. - austriantimes
Lost Pages From the Egyptian 'Book of the Dead' Found
Papyrus fragments from an Egyptian funerary text known as a Book of the Dead have been discovered in the archives of the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia.
"We are incredibly surprised that we had such a significant object in our collection," museum CEO Ian Galloway told Australian press.
The discovery was made recently during a visit to the museum by British Museum Egyptologist John Taylor.
While on a tour of the Australian venue's Egyptian collection ahead of its new exhibit Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb (which opened Thursday), Taylor noticed a familiar name — Amenhotep, a well-known ancient Egyptian head of builders — on a fragile piece of papyrus long ago conserved by Queensland Museum curators.
Upon further examination of the collection, he confirmed that the ancient scraps were from The Book of the Dead of Amenhotep, an ancient Egyptian official from approximately 1420 B.C.
Portions of this particular manuscript were discovered in the 19th century, though parts were missing. Some is now held at the British Museum, with other segments at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
"This is not the papyrus of just anybody. This is one of the top officials from Egypt at the peak of ancient Egypt's prosperity," Taylor told reporters in Brisbane.
According to Galloway, a woman donated the fragments in question to the museum almost 100 years ago. Staffers are now trying to track down her descendants.
The fragments will be scanned and Taylor hopes to start piecing the digital images together with the portions in the British Museum's collection.
"After over 100 years we're in a position to reconstruct this really important manuscript, perhaps in its entirety," he said. - cbc
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day - The Complete Papyrus of Ani Featuring Integrated Text and Full-Color Images
Journey Through the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead - The British Museum - NOTE: I have a copy of this book...magnificent! Worth the effort to obtain the hardbound version...the British Museum may have some still available. Lon
The Virus That Really Will Kill Your PC July 9th
It sounds like one of those annoying chain emails that show up from technically challenged acquaintances: "The FBI Will Take Your Computer Offline July 9 If It Has A Virus! Visit This Site Immediately To Check!! Forward This To Everyone You Know!!!"
But the Federal Bureau of Investigation really has posted a warning on its site about the risk of "DNSChanger" malware, which really will result in your computer getting disconnected from the Web on July 9 if you don't clean it up.
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Astor, Florida: Ground Zero for the Paranormal?
By David Hoes - Astor is a town of about 1500 residents that has a rich, but sometimes violent history. It is also the focal point for a remarkable variety of paranormal phenomena. The following is a list of some of the strange events in and around Astor:
- The ghost of an Indian chief and a French Huguenot Monk have been seen in the area
- A dinosaur-like river monster known as "Pinky" has been sighted by numerous witnesses
- UFOs have frequently been spotted in local skies
- Skunk Apes, a Florida version of Bigfoot, are said to inhabit the surrounding forest
- The town's lighthouse-keeper and drawbridge-tender were mysteriously murdered
- The leading citizen and largest property owner died on the Titanic
- A Transylvanian Count served as newspaper publisher and local historian
Astor History
Astor is located almost due north of Orlando and due west of Daytona Beach, on the west bank of the St. John's River. The lands around Astor were originally inhabited by Timucua Indians. There is a large shell mound just north of town where in the 1880s archeologists uncovered a number of relics and human remains.
French Huguenots escaping religious persecution settled at the present site of Astor in 1562. However, the entire colony was wiped out by Spanish troops in 1566. Later, the Spanish were driven out by the British.
The next European to settle in the area was James Spalding, who established a trading post at the present site of Astor in 1763. By that time, there were only about two dozen Timucua still alive. The rest had been killed by disease or war.
In 1822, a Jewish immigrant, Moses Elias Levy, raised oranges and sugar cane at the future site of Astor. During the Seminole wars, several forts were built in the vicinity. While some battles took place, more US troops died from disease than from combat. By 1870, the area was largely deserted.
However, in 1874, William B. Astor, Sr., purchased 12,000 acres of land along the St. John's river and established the town of Manhattan. When Astor died twenty years later, the town was officially renamed Astor in his honor. His son, John Jacob Astor IV inherited his father's estate and continued to promote the town. John Jacob Astor IV is remembered for his heroism during the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, when he gave-up up his place in a lifeboat to another passenger.
A more recent but somewhat less famous resident of Astor was Count Albert Wass de Szentegyed et Czege, (known as A. Wass de Czege) a Transylvanian nobleman and author, who came to Astor following World War II. He was the publisher of the local newspaper and a local historian.
Historical Legends
In his book, The history of Astor on the St. Johns, Astor Park, and the surrounding area , Count A. Wass de Czege tells of several local legends.
The first is the story of Oklawahumpka, the Indian chief who could not die. Spanish troops killed all of the members of an neighboring Indian tribe except for the chief, a large, powerful man.
Oklawahumpka took the tribe's totem pole to an island in the center of a desolate, forbidden swamp. A hawk, the symbol of the tribe, was carved in the top of this pole.
Years later, a group of Spanish soldiers led by Don Huerta explored this territory. He left some of his men with the boats while he and the rest of his troops explored the island. Neither Don Huerta nor the men with him were ever seen again. The soldiers who stayed with the boats reported hearing the cry of a large bird, possibly an eagle or hawk.
Over the years, others also vanished. Pirates who tried to escape justice by hiding in the swamp disappeared without a trace. Jonathan Higgins, manager of the Spalding trading post, also vanished here. His wife reported hearing the cry of a hawk coming from the swamp. In 1838 and 1863, US troops also disappeared here.
The last documented disappearance was in 1904 when a young surveyor failed to return. Searchers found a large footprint with one toe missing close to where the surveyor was last seen. According to legend, Oklawahumpka lost a toe to an alligator when he was a child.
The forbidden swamp still exists, somewhere northeast of Alexander Springs. From time to time, fishermen report seeing large footprints in the mud on the banks of Alexander Creek.
Another ghost story involves a French Huguenot monk. After the Spanish massacred the French settlers in 1566, they tied the only survivor, a monk, to a tree and tortured him until he died.
The ghost of the unfortunate monk has been seen over the centuries; some say his ghost still haunts Astor. In several on-line directories of haunted places, there are references made to a glowing figure who appears on a densely wooded street called Gobbler Road. Is this the ghost of the monk who died so many years ago?
The Astor Monster
Reports of the Astor Monster, also called "Pinky" and "The St. John's Monster" have circulated for hundreds of years. William Bartram, a famous American naturalist, traveled through Astor and Lake George in 1774. He wrote that his Indian guide kept referring to "the beast of the deep." Bartram later reported seeing "fiery dragons" around Volusia Bar in Lake George. This is where the lighthouse was later built.
The St. Francis Gazette of August 24, 1896, reported that "something dangerously large" overturned a fishing boat in a nearby lake. A week later, there was a report that the steamer "Osceola" was struck by something large near the same location.
Quite a few reports surfaced between 1949 and 1956. In 1949, a Jacksonville paper published a sketch of the "Astor Monster" as seen by a river guide. In 1956, strange footprints were found in the mud along the river. They were described as being about 10 inches long and reptilian, with three toes pointed to the front and two to the rear. Descriptions of the creature varied greatly, with some claiming it looked like a dinosaur and others describing a creature more like a manatee. According to one report, the creature had a single horn in the center of its head.
During the 1950s, over a dozen witnesses claimed to have seen the Astor Monster. Several individuals claimed to have shot at it but missed.
In his book Florida's Unexpected Wildlife: Exotic Species, Living Fossils, and Mythical Beasts in the Sunshine State , Michael Newton reported that in the late 1960s, fishing guide Buck Dillard and two clients encountered a beast 'the size of an elephant' while trolling on the St. Johns River near Lake Dexter. "Dillard says the creature walked along the river bottom, thus presumably eliminating possible confusion with a manatee."
The last reported sighting of the monster was in August of 1987, when two young men claimed to have struck it with their boat. Reportedly, it was about 35 feet long, greenish-gray, and had spikes on its back.
Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman mounted a 2008 expedition to search for Pinky, but was unsuccessful in learning more about the creature.
One newspaper reporter suggested that Pinky was a hoax. In a 1995 article in the Orlando Sentinel, Ormund Powers recalled a conversation he had with Count A. Wass deCzege, the former publisher of the newspaper in Astor.
"When I asked the Count to help me trace the origin of the Astor Monster, he let that question go by and instead told me a story about the Loch Ness Monster of Scotland.
'I knew the two men who invented the Loch Ness Monster,' he said.
'That thing was invented?' I asked.
'Out of whole cloth. They got together one day in Europe and decided they would invent a monster,' the count said. 'That was many, many years ago, you know. They just made him up from their overactive imaginations.'"
UFO Sightings near Astor
Astor has the unusual distinction of being near a Navy bombing range. The Pinecastle Range is the only live bombing range on the East Cost of the US. Does the close proximity of Pinecastle draw UFOs to the area? In September of 2010, former Air Force officer Robert Salas and other veterans claimed that UFOs are attracted to military installations. In any event, two UFO cases near Astor are especially interesting.
The first case occurred in the late 1950s. Jay Mallet, a navy pilot, was making dry runs at a target on the bombing range when he suddenly encountered a dozen small silver disks at about 10,000 feet altitude. It was approximately 9:30 am; visibility was good, and there were few clouds.
He described the metallic disks as being about the size of large garbage can lids. They had no lights, windows, markings or other features. "They simply looked like a squadron of flying saucers", he later reported. As he followed them they dropped down to about 1,000 feet.
Mallet was ordered to take photos using his gun cameras, but was never shown the film from the cameras. He was later sworn to secrecy about what he had seen.
In May of 1978, a widely reported Radar-Visual sighting also took place near Astor. According to the Ocala Star-Banner, on May 14, 1978, three UFOs were sighted over the U.S. Navy's Pinecastle Range.
"The lights, described as red, white and green and about the size of a star, were sighted about 10 pm and tracked for several minutes by radar.
'All I can tell you from here is what's in the log,' said Pinecastle's Lt. Commander John L. Sullivan. 'From what I can gather, the radar picked something up and it departed the area very quickly.'"
Timothy Collins, the radar technician who tracked the objects, said "I've never seen anything like it. And I don't want to see anything like it again."
Master Chief Thomas O'Neal was reported as saying that the Warfare Range also had a rash of UFO sightings one or two years before the May 14, 1978 incident.
At the same time the Navy was tracking the UFOs, two women were driving south on Highway 19, just northwest of Astor, when they saw a bright light and a craft that resembled "tinker toys." Following their sighting, they experienced a period of missing time.
In the years since 1978, UFO reports have continued to come-in. In 2001, retired Air Force Major George Filer documented some of strange events on his website. According to his source, goats were found dead with their rectums removed and blood drained. Rabbits were found dead with puncture wounds on their necks. A horse was found dead near the top of a 15 foot Palmetto tree, where it could have only been dropped from above. Numerous disc-shaped UFOs were also seen in the vicinity. Even as recently as 2010, there have been other newspaper and Internet reports of earth-shaking explosions and UFO sightings in the area, even when Navy planes weren't using the range.
-Two Strange Unsolved Murders-
The Murdered Bridge-tender
Highway 40, the main road through Astor, was paved in 1926. A drawbridge was built across the St. Johns River, joining Astor on the west bank to Barberville on the east bank. Although the bridge was mostly made of steel, on the Astor side it was partly covered with wood and included a house for the bridge-tender. McQueen Johnson, who used to operate the ferry between Astor and Barberville, was hired as the first tender.
In 1935, while on the bridge, Johnson was shot in the back. He fell across the middle of the bridge, with his head in Lake County and his feet in Volusia County. Not only was Mr. Johnson's murder never solved; it was not even investigated. Neither county sheriff claimed jurisdiction, and both refused to investigate.
A new bridge was built in 1978, and the old bridge house and covering were moved to the Barberville Pioneer Settlement, where they remain today.
The Murdered Lighthouse Keeper
Astor's second murder mystery is that of a Lake George lighthouse-keeper Today, all that remains of the lighthouse are the pilings it once rested on. However, the Volusia Bar Light once marked the inlet of the Saint Johns River where it flowed into the south end of Lake George. It was surrounded by water and only accessible by boat. The pilings held up the light tower and a 1-1/2 story dwelling. It was placed into service in 1886.
As railroads replaced riverboats, the light was removed 1916. It was replaced with a bell-type foghorn which remained in use up to 1943.
A.J. Anderson served as one of the last keepers of the Volusia Bar Lighthouse. However, in 1938, his body was found floating face down in the river. Local mariners had become concerned when they noticed that the lighthouse was unattended for more than a week. An autopsy was performed on Mr. Anderson, and it was found that his neck had been broken. To this day, Mr Anderson's killer or killers remain unknown. Investigators found that the dwelling had been ransacked. It is thought that either Mr. Anderson attempted to fight off his attacker(s), or that his attackers were searching for valuables.
After it was taken out of service in 1943, the Volusia Bar Lighthouse served as a fish camp and briefly, as a family dwelling. However, someone set fire to the building in 1974, destroying everything but the pilings.
Reports of Hauntings
No one that I spoke with would go on the record to say that either of these structures was haunted. Since victims' relatives still live nearby, there may be a reluctance to discuss it. However, there are rumors of unusual occurrences connected with both the lighthouse and the bridge-keeper's house. I have visited the bridge-keeper's house on two occasions, and on both occasions I felt very uneasy there.
Tales of the Skunk Ape
Florida is said to be home to a smaller version of Bigfoot known as the Skunk Ape. The name derives from the creature's horrible smell.
The Astor area, along with much of Lake and Marion counties, has a long history of Skunk Ape sightings. Many of the sightings have occurred just south of Astor near Alexander Springs. In an article for The Daily Sun newspaper, Gary Corsair wrote of several sightings near Astor:
November, 1977:
"A 67-year-old Baptist minister who says he hasn't had a drink in 40 years tells how he stood eyeball-to-eyeball for 30 seconds with a great, hairy creature in the Ocala National Forest. The Rev. S. L. Whatley, pastor of the Fort McCoy Baptist Church, said he spotted the thing out of the corner of his eye while he was cutting wood with a chain saw three weeks ago. Whatley recalled Monday. 'It was standing upright, in the middle of some palmetto bushes, and that sapsucker was at least 7 1/2, maybe 8 feet tall.' The minister said the creature 'had dark, lighter-than-black hair on its head and chest, not much on its arms, and none on its face. It had kind of a flat face, a flat nose, its eyes were sunk in its sockets.' Whatley said he quickly went back to his truck to get an ax because 'me and that creature was going to mix it up,' but by the time he returned from the truck the creature had disappeared. He hastened to add that he hasn't had a drink in 40 years."
July 2, 1980:
"Lake County Sgt. Dee Kirby, made casts of the half dozen 17-inch-by-6 1/2-inch footprints found near a bulldozer in the vicinity of Camp Ocala, a federal job training site. He said the prints showed a definite arching of the instep. five distinct toes and even some wrinkling along the instep. "(The prints) had a full four feet of distance between each of one," he said, speculating that if they were real the creature that made them must be 10-to-12 feet tall and weigh close to 1,000 pounds. The prints were discovered by a private contractor doing roadwork for the U.S. Forestry Service."
Jim Bliss claimed to have seen these prints, which were in the Ocala National Forest about five miles northwest of Alexander Springs. "When I saw the footprints, I was just flabbergasted. These prints were six feet apart. This thing was huge," he said.
Bliss also made plaster casts of prints the deputies overlooked. Although future searches for the skunk ape were unsuccessful, Bliss believes that the Skunk Ape exists.
"I believe it wholeheartedly. There's something there," Bliss said. "I know where he lives, but I can't convince anyone to go there with me. He lives in Billy's Bay, back behind Alexander Springs. There's no doubt in my mind there is one. There's been tons of people that's seen them."
Numerous other local sightings are listed on the Bigfoot Field Research Organization website, including the following:
- In 1986, a man camping near Astor reported that at 3:00 am he smelled something similar to a skunk, and sighted a large creature walking on two legs. In the morning, he found his coolers ransacked.
- In 1974, a man camping in the same area sighted a large bipedal creature at about 10:00 pm
- In March of 1994, a family camping in a secluded part of the forest heard unusual screams while camping in the forest.
- In 1996 a woman and her father were driving down a road in the forest when they sighted a hairy bipedal creature about 5 to 6 feet tall.
Future Investigations In Astor
When I began investigating stories about Astor, I worried that I wouldn't find enough material for an article. I now feel that more stories have yet to be told. There are vague reports of a fkigure in a black cape who wanders the forest; tales of campers hearing childrens' laughter from deep in the woods; rumors of the ghosts of Indians around the Volusia Bar; stories of haunted ghost towns deep in the forest; and other legends. I plan more investigations into this unique location, and hope others will share their stories.
*The author, David Hoes, has previously submitted articles and sighting reports to Phantoms and Monsters, including The Haunted Smallwood Store - Chokoloskee, Florida. I want to thank him for this well-researched offering.
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Just the Facts?: Did UFO Cause Pakistan 737 Air Crash? -- Old Woman Springs Road -- SOHO UFO Real?
Did a UFO cause the Pakistan 737 air crash? Reports suggest pilot may have been 'buzzed' by a triangular-shaped object before the accident
Unconfirmed reports suggest that the cause of the Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crash in Pakistan last Friday may have been a UFO sighting by the pilot.
A Russian news report on the crash posted on YouTube incorporates footage of three mysterious lights moving in formation, leading to speculation in the UFO community that blame for the tragic accident may lie with an extra-terrestrial craft.
There are rumours that the pilot may have been buzzed by the object and complained to the control tower at Islamabad airport as he made his approach.
Mysterious: A Russian TV news report on the crash shows lights flying in formation
The official line, however, is that the passenger jet's fuel tanks exploded mid-air during a heavy thunderstorm, killing all 127 people on board.
In a mayday call made moments before the disaster, the pilot of the stricken jet reported a fuel tank had caught fire and that the plane was out of control.
He asked controllers at Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto international airport for help as he prepared for an emergency landing, saying he could see the roofs of homes but not the runway.
Wreckage from the 32-year-old jet, which first saw service with British Airways, was scattered across a wide area in fields about three miles from the airport.
A report by Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority said the aircraft had been properly positioned as it began its approach but suddenly descended to 200 feet while still travelling at 300 miles an hour. It then descended a further 50 feet more before its tanks exploded.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has ordered a judicial investigation into the accident.
Given the violent storm lashing Islamabad during the accident, some experts have speculated that 'wind shear,' sudden changes in wind that can lift or smash an aircraft into the ground during landing, may have been a factor.
Speaking at the scene of the crash, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that Farooq Bhoja, head of Bhoja Air, had been put on the 'exit control list,' meaning he can't leave Pakistan. Such a ban is often put on someone suspected or implicated in a criminal case.
Malik said, 'It is being said that the aircraft was pretty old, so it has been ordered to investigate thoroughly the air worthiness of the Bhoja Air aircraft.'
'The causes will be investigated, whether it was any fault in the aircraft, it was lightning, the bad weather or any other factor that caused the loss of precious lives,' he said.
The plane's flight data recording systems, key to any investigation, have been recovered. - dailymail
'Old Woman Springs Road'
The following was forwarded by a reader:
Lon-
In the 1970s, my sister and brother-in-law lived in Yucca Valley, CA in a small house along Old Woman Springs Road. In that house one night, my sister awoke to see an old woman walking into the wall where once was a closet.
Another day, the couple was entertaining company when my brother-in-law and his friend saw two silver flying discs approach at a high speed. He yelled for my sister to come out and see them, but before she got outside, the discs had turned and gone in the direction they'd come from. I believe nearby was a military base.
But, the most interesting thing that happened to them when they lived there was that one night my brother-in-law was driving his water company truck along Old Woman Springs Road when up ahead he saw a mist that he finally drove through. As he did this, he turned to see a woman's face, misty, at his side window looking in at him. He said he screamed and stepped on the gas, attempting to escape the vision. Instead, the woman's face kept looking in at him even as he sped ahead. Out of fear, he braked very quickly and jumped out of the truck, only to see nothing there.
He went home and told my sister to never tell anyone that story after he told her. Weeks later, they had visitors who stayed until after dark. Their friends left and a half hour later, they got a phone call from them, telling them the same story about a woman's face staying alongside the side window as they drove.
Yucca Valley supposedly had a landing strip for UFOs, built by a UFO afficianado, another interesting note to these stories.
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Bantam Lake 'UFO' mystery may never be solved
If little green men did plunge a UFO into Bantam Lake under the cover of darkness two weeks ago, they might be interested to know that there's little pressure to speed up whatever they're planning—or if some glowing green whale-sized object did fall into the lake as reported, and it is a meteorite as suspected, it will likely remain undisturbed for a very long time.
And the mystery surrounding an incident that got international attention may remain just that—a mystery.
No Investigation?
Despite Connecticut officials and legislators being lobbied by at least one former member of a lake protection group to investigate, and despite a private group's vow to crack the case, little follow-up appears to be taking place.
"To the best of my knowledge, there are not any ongoing efforts to retrieve whatever it was, and my hope is that this summer scuba divers will take an active interest in trying to solve this mystery," said State Sen. Andrew Roraback (R-Goshen), who is seeking the GOP nomination to run in the Fifth Congressional District. "We have added this to the list of life's unanswered questions."
The buzz for the last couple of weeks has been about a glowing green object that fell into Bantam Lake around 2 a.m. April 10. In contrast to the magnitude of the buzz—"Is there a UFO in Connecticut?" the Daily Mail in England asked—what is known about the incident is spare.
An unidentified motorist who was near Bantam Lake called State Police at the Troop L barracks in Litchfield to report seeing the green, whale-sized object fall into the lake.
Such a report doesn't necessarily suggest credibility—given that the motorist didn't stick around and apparently didn't call back—but an on-duty State Police trooper some 10 miles away in Warren also called the barracks to report seeing a large object fall from the sky over Bantam or Morris.
Morris firefighters were dispatched, along with firefighters from Bantam, and made several passes up and down the lake in a boat but didn't find anything. Morris Fire Chief Joel Skilton said he was inclined to believe that it was a meteorite, given that the National Weather Service had documented a meteor shower in the area that night.
In the wake of reports about the incident, the Bantam Lake Protective Association's former president, Robert LaBonne, sent an e-mail to Mr. Roraback and State Rep. Craig Miner (R-Litchfield), telling the legislators he had received e-mails from as far away as Florida, "With modern technology and the 911 service, I would think the State Police has the ability to trace that 911 call back to the owner of the cell phone," said Mr. LaBonne in the e-mail a couple of weeks ago, referencing the fact that the citizen who claimed to see the object fall into the lake did not remain at the scene. "Once we have that person, hopefully he or she can direct us to the approximate location of the where this thing might be in the lake."
After one story about the sighting was posted two weeks ago on the New Haven Register website, The Smoking Gun Research Agency (SGRA) in Orange, indicated in a comment that it would be investigating. According to its website, www.sgra.org, the group studies the paranormal, metaphysical and the unexplained.
Smoking Gun director Jon Nowinski subsequently said that the group spent a couple of days talking with people by e-mail to gather more information.
Mr. Nowinski said Monday in an e-mail that he did request a copy or transcript of the State Police communications from the trooper, and that he hoped to provide more of an update on the situation soon. Whether a meteorite or something else fell into the lake, last week's reports that the incident sparked concern over dead fish being found at Bantam Lake turned out to be red herrings.
A state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) spokesperson said reports of some dead fish being found came in as early as March 21, which is weeks before the UFO (or meteorite) sighting.
"What we're seeing is what appears to be typical phenomena in a water body such as a lake, exacerbated some by the weather we have been having; the warm weather depletes the oxygen in the water," Dennis Schain of the DEEP said in a phone interview April 17. "It's predominantly sunfish. If it was anything unusual—the effect of anything falling in the lake—it would have more quickly affected a whole variety of species.
So that's where it stands. Area businesses that lightheartedly sought to capitalize on early reports of a UFO sighting—with "stellar rates" for extraterrestrials and greetings such as "aliens welcome"—have returned to business as usual.
Meanwhile, as doubt surfaces about whether anyone will solve the mystery of this "smoking gun," some observers around the lake continue to wonder how an incident involving something the size of a whale falling into the lake from a high altitude went unnoticed, even at 2 a.m. Don't we all wake up for a "bump in the night," they ask. - registercitizen
NOTE: Typical bureaucracy...either the politicians really don't care or they were told to back off. Lon
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Conspiracy? - Majestic Twelve Ufo Cover-Up (History Channel)
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The Real Deal?
Apparently the NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has photographed something that even they have to admit is a mystery.
NASA has released a picture of what looks eerily like a giant mothership flying near the sun. Not only is the object in question orbiting the sun, it is also withstanding temperatures that should easily toast most anything a golden brown as it disintegrates.
Now, if an ET intelligence can build a ship to withstand such temps, imagine how advanced they could be?
The most frightening part is mainstreamers are actually giving in to the possibility that this object is something engineered and intelligently controlled. - Read more at Video: This Now Viral UFO Could Be The Real Thing Folks!
Outrage as Egypt plans 'farewell intercourse law' so husbands can have sex with DEAD wives up to six hours after their death
Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives - for up to six hours after their death.
The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament.
It will also see the minimum age of marriage lowered to 14 and the ridding of women's rights of getting education and employment.
Egypt's National Council for Women is campaigning against the changes, saying that 'marginalising and undermining the status of women would negatively affect the country's human development'.
Dr Mervat al-Talawi, head of the NCW, wrote to the Egyptian People's Assembly Speaker Dr Saad al-Katatni addressing her concerns.
Egyptian journalist Amro Abdul Samea reported in the al-Ahram newspaper that Talawi complained about the legislations which are being introduced under 'alleged religious interpretations'.
The subject of a husband having sex with his dead wife arose in May 2011 when Moroccan cleric Zamzami Abdul Bari said marriage remains valid even after death.
He also said that women have the right to have sex with her dead husband, alarabiya.net reported.
It seems the topic, which has sparked outrage, has now been picked up on by Egypt's politicians.
TV anchor Jaber al-Qarmouty slammed the notion of letting a husband have sex with his wife after her death under the so-called 'Farewell Intercourse' draft law.
He said: 'This is very serious. Could the panel that will draft the Egyptian constitution possibly discuss such issues? Did Abdul Samea see by his own eyes the text of the message sent by Talawi to Katatni?
'This is unbelievable. It is a catastrophe to give the husband such a right! Has the Islamic trend reached that far? Is there really a draft law in this regard? Are there people thinking in this manner?' - dailymail
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George Monbiot, the latest guru of anti-globalisation, wants world revolution - but he tolerates those who don't.
Two years ago, Naomi Klein, the Canadian activist and author of No Logo, held a packed Adelaide audience spellbound as she unpicked the workings of corporate brands and global capitalism.
By question time, however, some of the lads were growing restless. They wanted revolution and they wanted it now, on the streets of the City of Churches. Klein's activist credentials are unimpeachable; ask any Nike executive. But on that day she clearly wasn't interested in the warm inner glow of instant protest. Strategy and tactical deployment of the endangered human resources of hope and energy to effect change - that's what she was about. Nor was it clear that this canny user of every global communication trick in the book believed that globalisation was the bogyman.
George Monbiot's The Age of Consent carries the word "manifesto" in its subtitle. That should appeal to the frontline brigade. Where Klein is forensic, Monbiot is exhortatory. The revolution (he uses the word freely) depends, he says, "on your preparedness to exchange your security for liberty; your comfort for elation. It depends on your willingness to act."
The Age of Consent is provocative, a clear call to action against the global forces that constrain freedom and cause human misery. However, Monbiot is also the son of the deputy chairman of Britain's Conservative Party - and it shows. He has both high rhetoric and a habit of liberal tolerance, a readiness to take on the arguments of those who will, inevitably, contend with him. He invites passionate debate and brooks opposition: "I hope this manifesto will contribute if only because it might incite such revulsion that other people will feel obliged to quash it with better proposals of their own."
So what is Monbiot's analysis of the state we're in, and what are his proposals?
"Everything has been globalised," he writes, "except our consent. Democracy has been confined to the nation state. It stands at the national border, suitcase in hand, without a passport."
And who are the villains?
"A handful of men in the richest nations use the global powers they have assumed to tell the rest of the world how to live. This book is an attempt to describe a world run on the principle by which those powerful men claim to govern: the principle of democracy. It is an attempt to replace our Age of Coercion with an Age of Consent."
That's it, in brief. Clearly, Monbiot's proposal is ambitious. Not for him any local, protectionist, small-focus reform initiatives (though he does not discount their efficacy in his overall plans). Speaking for what he terms the "global justice movement", Monbiot argues for three macro reforms. He wants the establishment of a democratically elected world parliament, an international clearing union to discharge trade deficits and prevent the accumulation of debt, and a fair trade organisation "which restrains the rich while emancipating the poor".
Utopian? Yes - but with a lot of the i's dotted and the t's crossed. This is a liberal Englishman, remember, and one who has done his homework. He's also an Englishman who has grown up with the strains of Blake's Jerusalem in his ears. He wants to change the way people act and think ("a metaphysical mutation"), and he understands quite clearly the dangerous exultation ("which Christians call joy") that accompanies such intense collective purpose concentrated by adversity. He has also done the footwork for his economic analysis, having lived and worked in Africa, Asia and the Americas.
He is hot, you could say, where Naomi Klein is cool. But both want global change and understand that it will require astute mobilisation of forces, including the power of sheer numbers in the debt-ridden poor world. What might happen if developing countries were to act collectively and refuse to pay their debt? Or refuse to pay in dollars?
Monbiot finds cool confirmation of much of his economic and political diagnosis in the work of Joseph E.Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel Prize-winning economist, former chief economist of the World Bank and cabinet member of the Clinton administration. His 2002 book, Globalisation and its Discontents (Penguin), was its own kind of bombshell, detailing Stiglitz's disillusion with the workings of the International Monetary Fund and "Washington consensus" doctrines, particularly as they have affected developing nations. Stiglitz's criticisms of IMF policies during the Asian financial crisis, and in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, are severe and underpin Monbiot's critique. But Monbiot is a revolutionary where Stiglitz is a deeply troubled academic, so one might expect the former's scorn for the activities of bodies like the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organisation to be more hectic. And it is.
But his list of the suffering caused by the "dictatorship of vested interests" and by "corruption and misrule" in the developing world (Monbiot is never simple-minded about "them and us") demands response and change. Here is one small part: "Almost half the world's population lives on less than two dollars a day. Despite a global surplus of food, 840 million people are officially classified as malnourished. One hundred million children are denied primary education. One third of the people of the poor world die of preventable conditions, such as infectious disease." And things are getting worse, not better.
Answers? Monbiot offers them through his detailed proposals for democracy as a disciplining global force (the world parliament), freer and fairer trade, reformed labour and banking regimes to eliminate rather than generate debt in the developing world. None of his proposals is rocket science, or even new. A scan through Tim Rowse's Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life (Cambridge University Press) shows how much of the detailed thinking has been done, some of it in Australia, but discarded under neo-liberal economic orthodoxy.
Judging by the evidence, that orthodoxy is broken. Stiglitz is only one of many prophets of its doom. Monbiot's fixing revolution could be bloodless - there are English precedents for that. So it is advisable to read him, if only to disagree and do better.
Morag Fraser is an adjunct professor at La Trobe University.


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Q: String byte to String - Big query I have the below query and it produces data with \" added. Not sure if it is string byte causing this problem because string_agg produces string byte as output.
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  visitid,
  fullVisitorId,
  hits.hitNumber,
  TO_JSON_STRING(ARRAY(
    SELECT
      AS STRUCT productSKU,
      ARRAY(SELECT STRING_AGG(CONCAT('{"',CAST(index AS STRING), '":', '"', IFNULL(value,''), '"', '}'), ',')  FROM   UNNEST(customDimensions))  as productCustDimension
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Below is the output it is producing. In the product column, the productCustDimension value is what i am taking about, with addition "\ characters added.

I found a way to get rid of extra characters I mentioned using replace function, but it kind of becomes too dirty. I am looking if there is a better way of doing it. I want the product column as below

A: The problem is with the " character which is escaped in TO_JSON_STRING. Try running the query like so:
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ARRAY(SELECT STRING_AGG(CONCAT('{',CAST(index AS STRING), ':', '', IFNULL(value,''), '', '}'), ',')  FROM   UNNEST(customDimensions))  as productCustDimension
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Located on the River Tom, Tomsk was founded in 1604 as a military outpost against nomad tribes. Later it became a place of exile, trade and the center of transportation. The city fathers refused to have the Trans-Siberian Railway pass through, fearing noise, dirt and disruption. Instead they found economic isolation, and the once important trading center dwindled. However, it survived as a university city.
Today, Tomsk has a population of around 500 000, of which every sixth person is a student coming from all over Siberia, Central Asia and even the European part of Russia.
Tomsk is proud of its half a dozen major academic establishments making it the major educational center of Siberia. The scientific resources of the city are represented by a large number of scientific institutions. Tomsk may boast of 9 research, engineering and design institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 5 institutes of the Russian Medical Academy, 20 organizations focused on industrial science, and 11 research institutes based on Tomsk universities.
Tomsk Special Economic Zone of Technical and Innovative Type was established in 2005 in the city. The priority areas of focus for research and development activity in the territory of Tomsk SEZ are: IT and electronics, medicine and biotechnologies, nanotechnologies and new materials, resource saving technology. Today, about 60 companies have offices in the territory of the Special Economic Zone.
The main advantages of SEZ for its residents are the system of tax benefits and a free custom zone. During the first five years the residents were exempt from property and land taxes, as well as import and export duties.
Tomsk region is historically rich in natural resources: oil and gas reserves, brown coal, and the second rank in Russia by the reservoir of peat, metallic ore reservoirs, and wood. In the structure of Tomsk region economy mining operations, engineering, metalwork, wood and oil traditionally dominated.
Tomsk is also a place of culture with its relatively intact architecture preserved in part. It combines endless examples of theatres, museums, churches and cathedrals, fine wooden mansions, some grand century-old commercial buildings and a dynamic, modern outlook.


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BUV737 Mouse Anti-Human IL-3Rα (CD123)
Clone 6H6 (RUO)
Alternative Name IL3RA; IL3R; IL-3R-alpha; IL-3RA
Immunogen Human IL3RA Transfected Cell Line
Tamanhos 50 µg
The 6H6 monoclonal antibody specifically recognizes the Interleukin-3 receptor alpha chain (IL-3Ra) which is also known as CD123. IL-3Ra (CD123) is a ~70 kDa type I transmembrane glycoprotein that is encoded by IL3RA (interleukin 3 receptor subunit alpha) which belongs to the type I cytokine receptor family within the immunoglobulin gene superfamily. This receptor chain consists of an extracellular region that contains an immunoglobulin-like N-terminal domain (NTD) with a fibronectin type III (FnIII) fold followed by two more FnIII domains that form the cytokine receptor module (CRM), a transmembrane region, and an intracellular tail. IL-3Ra (CD123) binds IL-3 specifically and with low affinity. IL-3Ra (CD123) forms a high-affinity signaling receptor for IL-3 (IL-3R) with the ß common chain (ßc; also known as, CD131) that is shared with the heterodimeric IL-5 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) receptors. IL-3Ra (CD123) is variably expressed on certain hematopoietic progenitor cells, basophils, eosinophils, mast cells, monocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells, megakaryocytes, and on some B cells, endothelial cells, and leukemia cells. Bound IL-3 can signal through IL-3R to promote the activation, proliferation, differentiation, and viability of these cells. Amongst monoclonal antibodies specific for human IL-3Ra (CD123), the 6H6 and 9F5 antibodies do not block IL-3 binding to the IL-3R whereas the 7G3 antibody does block IL-3 binding to its receptor in a dose-dependent manner.
The antibody was conjugated to BD Horizon™ BUV737 which is part of the BD Horizon Brilliant™ Ultraviolet family of dyes. This dye is a tandem fluorochrome of BD Horizon BUV395 with an Ex Max of 348-nm and an acceptor dye with an Em Max at 737-nm. BD Horizon Brilliant BUV737 can be excited by the ultraviolet laser (355 nm) and detected with a 740/35 filter. Due to the excitation of the acceptor dye by other laser lines, there may be significant spillover into channels detecting Alexa Fluor® 700-like dyes (eg, 712/20-nm filter).
Due to spectral differences between labeled cells and beads, using BD™ CompBeads can result in incorrect spillover values when used with BD Horizon BUV737 reagents. Therefore, the use of BD CompBeads or BD CompBeads Plus to determine spillover values for these reagents is not recommended. Different BUV737 reagents (eg, CD4 vs. CD45) can have slightly different fluorescence spillover therefore, it may also be necessary to use clone specific compensation controls when using these reagents.
BUV737 is a tandem fluorochrome that combines BD Horizon BUV395 and an acceptor dye with an Em Max at 737 nm. Due to the excitation of the acceptor dye by other laser lines, there may be significant spillover in to channels detecting Alexa Fluor® 700 like dyes (for example, 712/20-nm filter). BUV737 has been exclusively developed by BD Biosciences for instruments equipped with a 355-nm UV laser.
Lysing Solution 10X Concentrate IVD
BUV737 Mouse IgG1, κ Isotype Control X40 RUO
Store undiluted at 4°C and protected from prolonged exposure to light. Do not freeze. The monoclonal antibody was purified from tissue culture supernatant or ascites by affinity chromatography. The antibody was conjugated to the dye under optimum conditions that minimize unconjugated dye and antibody.
Please refer to http://regdocs.bd.com to access safety data sheets (SDS).
BD Horizon Brilliant Ultraviolet 737 is covered by one or more of the following US patents: 8,110,673; 8,158,444; 8,227,187; 8,575,303; 8,354,239.
BD™ CompBeads can be used as surrogates to assess fluorescence spillover (Compensation). When fluorochrome conjugated antibodies are bound to BD CompBeads, they have spectral properties very similar to cells. However, for some fluorochromes there can be small differences in spectral emissions compared to cells, resulting in spillover values that differ when compared to biological controls. It is strongly recommended that when using a reagent for the first time, users compare the spillover on cells and BD CompBead to ensure that BD CompBeads are appropriate for your specific cellular application.
For optimal and reproducible results, BD Horizon Brilliant Stain Buffer should be used anytime two or more BD Horizon Brilliant dyes are used in the same experiment. Fluorescent dye interactions may cause staining artifacts which may affect data interpretation. The BD Horizon Brilliant Stain Buffer was designed to minimize these interactions. More information can be found in the Technical Data Sheet of the BD Horizon Brilliant Stain Buffer (Cat. No. 563794/566349) or the BD Horizon Brilliant Stain Buffer Plus (Cat. No. 566385).
Note: When using high concentrations of antibody, background binding of this dye to erythroid cell subsets (mature erythrocytes and precursors) has been observed. For researchers studying these cell populations, or in cases where light scatter gating does not adequately exclude these cells from the analysis, this background may be an important factor to consider when selecting reagents for panel(s).
Broughton SE, Hercus TR, Hardy MP, et al. Dual mechanism of interleukin-3 receptor blockade by an anti-cancer antibody.. Cell Rep. 2014; 8(2):410-9. (Biology: Flow cytometry). View reference
Macardle PJ, Chen Z, Shih CY, et al. Characterization of human leucocytes bearing the IL-3 receptor. Cell Immunol. 1996; 168(1):59-68. (Biology: Flow cytometry). View reference
Miyajima A. CDw123 (Interleukin 3 receptor α chain) Workshop Panel report. In: Kishimoto T. Tadamitsu Kishimoto .. et al., ed. Leucocyte typing VI : white cell differentiation antigens : proceedings of the sixth international workshop and conference held in Kobe, Japan, 10-14 November 1996. New York: Garland Pub.; 1997; :854-855.
Sun Q, Woodcock JM, Rapoport A, et al. Monoclonal antibody 7G3 recognizes the N-terminal domain of the human interleukin-3 (IL-3) receptor alpha-chain and functions as a specific IL-3 receptor antagonist.. Blood. 1996; 87(1):83-92. (Immunogen: Flow cytometry). View reference
Yamada T, Sun Q, Zeibecoglou K, et al. IL-3, IL-5, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor alpha-subunit, and common beta-subunit expression by peripheral leukocytes and blood dendritic cells.. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 1998; 101(5):677-82. (Clone-specific: Flow cytometry). View reference
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Want to Start Your Own Online Dating Site?
If you've ever signed up for a dating site, used it for a while, only to think to yourself, "Hey, I could do this better," why not give it a try?
There are a number of books now available on how to start and run a successful online dating site. Not only can you create a site that caters to your own love needs and desires, but you can also start making a living from the ever growing and ever popular world of online dating.
To begin, you need to have an idea that you already know you would sign up for – after all, if you're not interested in signing up for your site, why would anyone else be? Start by looking around at the various sites that are available, and make lists of what you feel is missing from the other sites. Or you can take one site that you really like and make a list of the things that would make it perfect.
Then, you need to get a little background in how to set up a website – don't worry, it's not that difficult. Take a few classes in site building and read as many books as you can.
You will find that once you have the site set up, it's easy to update and it's easy to let run on its own. After a while, not only will be make some extra money, but you will also be able to find some dates.
Not a bad combination at all – work and pleasure, combined.
I would like to start an online dating web site with very little cost. Is this possible?
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