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Now you will have something to wipe with when told, "your full of shit"...

GIANT 34" Toilet Paper Tissue Roll LIFETIME SUPPLY ?

At least 54 people were killed and hundreds injured Tuesday and Wednesday by dozens of tornadoes that plowed across Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama in the nation's deadliest barrage of twisters in almost 23 years. In spite of the disasters, state and local emergency management officials once again discovered that they could call on Amateur Radio operators to help out and get communications up and going again after the infrastructure failed.

According to ARRL Southeastern Division Director Greg Sarratt, W4OZK, "Four people were killed in Alabama as the storms damaged homes, caused flooding and downed trees and power lines. North Alabama SKYWARN, ARES and scores of Amateur Radio operators were up all night long, providing vital communications to the National Weather Service and Emergency Management Agencies all across the region. Once again, Amateur Radio operators played a critical role before, during and after the storms. I am proud of the level of professionalism and critical information that these operators provided our served agencies."

Hundreds of houses were damaged or destroyed across the region. Authorities had no immediate cost estimate of the damage. The storms flattened entire streets, smashed warehouses and sent tractor-trailers flying. Houses were reduced to splintered piles of lumber. Some looked like life-size dollhouses, their walls sheared away. Crews going door-to-door to search for bodies had to contend with downed power lines, snapped trees and flipped-over cars. Near hard-hit Lafayette, Tennessee, cattle wandered through the debris. At least 12 people died in and around the town; more than 30 were killed in Tennessee alone.

Amateurs Lend a Hand as Deadly Storms Sweep across Southern United States

* Los Angeles County Hams Honored for Community Service: On February 27, members of the Disaster Communications Service (DCS), based at the Carson Sheriff Station, received individual and group awards from the State of California, the County of Los Angeles, the Carson Sheriff Station Support Foundation and the City of Carson, California for their participation in a wide range of both planned and emergent events. These 27 Amateur Radio operators provided almost 8000 hours of service to the agencies, including assisting in providing assistance during a bicycle race, tactical alerts due to civil unrest, funerals for fallen deputy sheriffs and the fires that plagued Southern California. Members of their Rapid Deployment Team spent five days on Catalina Island, serving as the primary means of communication between the island and the mainland until telephone systems were restored. The service provided by the Carson Station DCS volunteers saved the taxpayers of Los Angeles County almost $320,000, "but more importantly, they selflessly provided an invaluable service that is a critical component to the safety of our communities and families," the DCS coordinator said. Thirteen deputies, a firefighter, two station volunteers and two citizens were also recognized in the second annual event that pays tribute to Carson sheriff's deputies and supporters for their work in the city. More information can be found at the Los Angeles County Disaster Communications Web page .

Los Angeles County Hams Honored for Community Service

The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) called Army Military Affiliate
Radio System (MARS) into action as tornados swept across the Southeastern United
States February 5-6. According to Army MARS Chief Stuart Carter, "For the
first time as far back as we can remember, a state government called for MARS
deployment in response to an actual emergency. The resulting teamwork and use of
Army MARS Winlink capability gave TEMA its only e-mail link during President
Bush's visit to the storm-stricken area." At least 70 messages were sent
during the state operation ranging from casualty figure updates and signal
reports to staff rosters and photos.

TEMA's Chief of Communications David Wolfe, WA4VVX (MARS call sign AAR4CY),
said, "Although there was no commercial power at the deployment site,
TEMA's communications infrastructure was fully operational. Both the VHF high
band and 800 MHz repeater systems had good coverage for voice command and
control. Our shortage was Internet connectivity, and our unmet needs were e-mail
and the ability to send pictures. MARS Winlink provided exactly what was not
available by any other means."

Carter said that this event illustrates the importance of detailed preparation
and training that has taken place during realistic disaster response exercises
over the past several years. "In the case of Tennessee, the story goes back
a year and a half. Steve Waterman, K4CJX (MARS call sign AAA9AC) began working
with Wolfe in late 2006, preparing for just such a deployment. At the time, Army
MARS was just beginning to adopt the Winlink 2000 radio e-mail network system,
and with the assistance of the then-Tennessee State Director Paul Drothler, WO4U
(MARS call sign AAV4DJ), Army MARS had just signed a Memorandum of Understanding
with TEMA. This MOU just served to strengthen an already strong relationship
between TEMA and Army MARS. Wolfe led TEMA staffers who were already hams to
becoming MARS members and to become qualified MARS Winlink 2000 operators. The
rest of Wolfe's team soon obtained their Amateur Radio and Army MARS
licenses."

The next step, according to Carter, was joint training for TEMA staff and
Tennessee Army MARS members. Some was classroom training followed up with
extensive field training. The culmination of the field training was TNCAT07, a
massive exercise that included the Central United States Earthquake Consortium
(CUSEC), an eight-state alert consortium along the New Madrid fault line. This
exercise also included the participation by ARRL Amateur Emergency Radio Service
(ARES), Civil Air Patrol and other EmComm services that clearly demonstrated
interoperability between TEMA, Tennessee Army MARS, the Amateur Radio community
and other municipal communications services.

"To make a long story short," Carter said, "we now have seen a
demonstration of seamless collaboration between Army MARS and one of our
supported agencies under 'Real World' emergency conditions. This was the first
Army MARS deployment since the Katrina/Rita disasters two years ago.
Successfully meeting the challenge involved deployment readiness on the part of
our members, and it required total Winlink 2000 mobility. First of all came the
building of relationships with existing and potential customers, and then came
meticulous training of state and federal staffers, and frequent exercising at
home and in the field. With this pattern of established collaboration between
our customers and MARS members, we enter the new era of Army MARS Emergency
communications support."

TENNESSEE AGENCY CALLS ARMY MARS INTO ACTION

Hitchcock's 1st season over at HULU.COM...

The Long Shot

MTARS HAMFEST. Saturday March 15th, 2008
Directly behind the 1st Methodist Church, at Lauderdale and Jackson St., in
Tullahoma.
Street address is 208 W. Lauderdale St., Tullahoma.

Doors open at 8 AM.... main prize drawing at 2 PM

Talkin on 146.70 (minus offset).... secondary / backup on 147.195 (plus
offset)

Hourly doorprizes.

Several vendors already signed up to come.

VE testing at 9 AM. (for info, contact Bradley Brake W4BB (Email
bbrake@charter.net)

Lots of good food on site, featuring locally cooked, Award winning BBQ,
plate lunches and sandwiches, deserts, drinks, etc.

Admission $5. Children 15 and under free

Vendor tables with limited electricity $10. (Vendor setup, Friday, 5 to 8 PM
and Saturday 6 AM.)
For table info, contact Bill Holt (Email n0euu@hotmail.com)

For more info, contact Ed Hohenthaner W7LGD, Cowan Tn. phone
#(931)967-0545 Email W7LGD@yahoo.com

MTARS HAMFEST 2008

It had been hoped members would boost the supply of oil to help prices fall from their historically-high levels.

The price of a barrel of oil reached another record of almost $104 during trading on Monday in New York.

Oil ministers from Opec member nations are gathering in Vienna ahead of their meeting which starts on Wednesday.

"I don't think Opec would consider increasing production because then we would be increasing to meet a demand that doesn't exist," Opec President Chakib Khelil said

Damit... These people with their S.E.G's are going to kill us at the pump...
"I don't think Opec would consider increasing production because then we would be increasing to meet a demand that doesn't exist," my ass.

They are going to milk the USA for every dime, every time.... period.

*EOR (end of rant) *

Opec dashes oil supply rise hopes

MESSAGE: MESSAGE:

DTG: 20080304/0031Z VAAC: WASHINGTON
VOLCANO: ANATAHAN 0804-20
PSN: N1621 E14539 AREA: MARIANA.ISLANDS
SUMMIT ELEV: 2585 FT (788 M)
ADVISORY NR: 2008/056
INFO SOURCE: MTSAT. GFS WINDS. RADIOSONDE.
ERUPTION DETAILS: ONGOING EMISSIONS
OBS VA DTG: 03/2330Z
OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL060 40NM WIDE LINE BETWEEN
N1910 E14810 - N1624 E14544. ASH IS MOVING NE
5-10 KNOTS.
FCST VA CLD +6HR: 04/0530Z SFC/FL060 40NM WIDE
LINE BETWEEN N1858 E14823 - N1628 E14543.
FCST VA CLD +12HR: 04/1130Z SFC/FL060 40NM WIDE
LINE BETWEEN N1854 E14826 - N1626 E14546.
FCST VA CLD +18HR: 04/1730Z SFC/FL060 40NM WIDE
LINE BETWEEN N1842 E14831 - N1626 E14546.
RMK: MORNING VISIBLE IMAGERY REVEALS A 35-40 NMI
WIDE PLUME EXTENDING AT LEAST 215 NMI TO THE
NORTHEAST OF THE VOLCANO OR TO ABOUT 19N 148E.
GFS AND SOUNDINGS SUGGEST A SLIGHTLY LOWER HEIGHT
AT ABOUT FL060. SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS SUGGEST
WINDS COULD BE UP TO 15KTS. ...BALDWIN
NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20080304/0630

Whats up in the MARIANA.ISLANDS?

VOLCANIC ASH ADVISORY

Check the link... Global Crossing is having some issues and it is blocking access to some servers down in a Dallas data center so I am sure others are probably affected...

Does anyone else know of a better source of info?

I hate being kept in the dark... :|

Global Crossing and Others Are Having Problems...

But while Comcast's seat-warmers slept, a collection of Cambridge scholars, Internet advocates, industry leaders, engineers and policymakers nearly all agreed that Internet blocking has serious consequences for each and every one of us.

I say "nearly" because Comcast remains defiant; its executive vice president, David Cohen, continues to insist that "Comcast does not block any Web site, application or Web protocol including peer-to-peer services."

Cohen sets a high bar with that denial, especially since extensive testing has shown exactly the opposite to be true.

"There a single fact here that [Comcast] cannot deny," explained Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu during Monday's hearing. "Users of the Internet sought to use an application in a certain way, and they were blocked."

This view was supported by David Reed of MIT's Media Lab, who had also experimented with popular file-sharing applications and found that Comcast was duping users with forged network transmissions that cut off their connections. "Comcast's secretive attempt to apply non-standard management practices creates serious problems," he said before the FCC.

In Boston: A Shot Heard 'Round the Internet....