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‘Polar Vortex’ Snow Smells Like Plastic When Put Next To A Flame, Does Not Melt?

Updated 1 Feb, 2014.

Engineered snow storms are not new to the US.   It may or may not be related, but there are a number of videos of people in the U.S. trying to melt snow that have surfaced recently that indicate that the snow is not merely snow. 

Here is a good example. This video shows a lady in Georgia putting a flame to ‘polar vortex’ snow, from a snow storm that’s being hyped up by the mainstream media, which she has obtained from the ground outside her home.   While she indicates that it seems normal on inspection,  when she puts a flame directly against it, it does not melt and drip as one would expect, but becomes blackened and she says it smells like plastic as it burns.  Her obervations about these properties of the snow appear to be reinforced by others. (See more videos below.)

Let’s hope more people in the midst of the ‘polar vortex’ test their snow using a flame and post videos of what they find online.  This appears to be ‘easy-to-see’ evidence that something is seriously wrong with natural systems, that can not be readily explained away and it could wake people up to the criminal activity of weather engineering that is occurring.

Ocean City, New Jersey, 1/29/2014 There was heavy aerosol spraying activity before the snowfall. Photo by Brad Mossman posted on Facebook.

Geoengineeringwatch.org covers the issue of chemically nucleated snow here, which may or may not be related to what these people found.

 

‘Fake Snow’: Videos In Multiple States Show Strange Snow That Doesn’t Melt Normal, Burns, Smells of ‘Plastic

Dave Mathers Tests Snow from Towson, Maryland.

The following was shot by Dave Mathers of Towson, Maryland to demonstrate properties of snow outside his home recently.  This video was posted on Facebook.com by Dave. He gave me his permission to upload it to YouTube.

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Chemically Nucleated Snow – What is it?
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/chemically-nucleated-snow-what-is-it/

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Congress set to extend plastic firearm ban, but gun control advocates aren’t happy

Software engineer Travis Lerol takes aim with an unloaded Liberator handgun in the backyard of his home. The Liberator is the first gun that can be made entirely with parts from a 3D printer and computer-aided design (CAD) files downloaded from the Internet. (AFP Photo / Robert MacPherson)

The United States Congress is expected to renew a ban against plastic firearms on Monday only hours before it would expire, but gun control advocates say lawmakers are doing too little to tackle the greater issue this time around.

Monday’s vote is expected to end with the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 being extended for another decade, but efforts to augment that law to accommodate for new technology will be ignored, leaving the task of regulating weapons made with 3D printers to be brought up for debate at a later time.

Under its current language, the law prohibits the manufacturing, importing, selling, shipping, delivery or transfer of any firearm that eludes metal detectors, x-ray machines and other types of screening devices. The problem with this, gun control advocates insist, is that the metal components built into plastic weapons to make them detectable can often easily be removed.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) has been attempting to alter current law to add a provision that would mandate otherwise all-plastic guns to be manufactured with a permanent metal part, but firearm enthusiasts and lobbyists at the likes of the National Rifle Association have largely rejected the notion.

The Senate is now expected to shoot down Schumer’s proposal during a vote in Washington on Monday, but approve the extension on the 1988 ban.

Voting down Schumer’s proposal will be the second major blow to gun control initiatives in 2013 and comes eight months after the Senate rejected a plan for expanded background checks for interested gun buyers. It also falls just short of the one-year-anniversary of a mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary school, which ended in more than two dozen fatalities.

“The gun lobby still has enormous power in Washington — more, frankly, than I thought they still had,” Sen. Chris Murphy, (D-Connecticut), who represented Newtown last year while in the House of Representatives, told the Associated Press. The House voted to extend the 1988 ban last Tuesday without including any new rules for new weapons, despite 3D-printed firearms becoming increasingly prevalent in recent months.

“Back then, in 1988, the notion of a 3D plastic gun was science fiction,” Rep Steve Israel (D-New York) told USA Today in November. “Now, a month away, it is reality.”

Just this year, a handful of developers released the digital blueprints necessary to make functioning firearms using increasingly affordable 3D printer technology. At issue here, Schumer has said, is that these homemade weapons may call for metal parts, but they aren’t actually required to make the gun shoot.

“The expiration of this law, combined with advances in 3D printing make what was once a hypothetical threat into a terrifying reality,” he said recently. “We are actively exploring all options to pass legislation that will eliminate the threat of completely undetectable weapons.”

“What we believe is the best proposal is to say there has to be a piece of metal that’s part of the gun that’s not removable, a significant part of the gun, the trigger, the barrel, the handle, stuff like that,” he added on Friday to reporters at Gannett newspapers.

Schumer’s attempt was met with strong opposition by the likes of the NRA, however, who vowed to fight any expanded requirements to the Undetectable Firearms Act, “including applying the UFA to magazines, gun parts or the development of new technologies . . . that would infringe on our Second Amendment rights.”

In a statement of their own after last week’s House’s vote, Dan Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, saluted Congress in a statement while warning that more could be done by lawmakers.

“Unfortunately, the House failed to address the fact that in the quarter century since this law was first enacted, new technologies have emerged that enable people to make and use undetectable guns that are not barred by the law,” Gross said. “Terrorists and other dangerous people can now make undetectable guns with 3-D printers in complete anonymity in their homes, enabling them to breach security and bring guns into airplanes and other secure places. We hope the Senate renews and modernizes the law to keep Americans safe.”

Speaking to Gannett, Schumer acknowledged that he would continue his fight even if his proposal was shot-down as expected this week.

“[W]e will then move the 10-year extension, which is better than nothing, and then work when we come back in January to plug this loophole,” he told the paper.

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TV host Julie Chen reveals she"s had plastic surgery and we"re supposed to cheer? | Patricia Park

Chen was told her ‘Asian eyes’ were holding back her career. One again, women need to slice, dice, and diet to succeed

CBS television personality Julie Chen has generated quite the buzz since confessing that she’s had plastic surgery on The Talk on Wednesday. As a young news reporter in Dayton, Ohio, Chen was informed by her boss that her “Asian eyes” made her look “disinterested” and “bored”. She then met with a high-powered agent, who handed her a list of plastic surgeons specializing in blepharoplasty (pdf) – the procedure for creating double-creased eyelids, which at least 50% of Asians are not born with naturally —and told Chen if she got the surgery, she’d go “straight to the top.” And so she did.

After the American Big Brother host “outed” herself on-air, the women round The Talk table immediately voiced their support. Sharon Osborne let out an exuberant, “Fabulous!” followed by a slightly more tempered, “It was the right thing to do.” Sheryl Underwood said, “You represented your race, you represented women, and your colleagues.” Sara Gilbert told Chen:

I think you were beautiful before, you’re beautiful now, and it’s really whatever makes you happy.

These rallies of “You go, girl!” have not only been limited to Chen’s fellow co-hosts. The Asian American Journalists Association “applaud[s] Chen for sharing this personal moment with her audience“. The popular women’s lifestyle site BlogHer discusses how Chen’s decision was motivated by racism. Even the ever-cantankerous Angry Asian Man blog offers up some sympathetic words for Chen. And in what must feel like the ultimate “booyah” moment for Chen, she received a public apology from WDTN-TV, the Dayton station where she first got her start.

Overall, Chen’s big reveal has been met with a positive response. I’m sympathetic to the challenges Chen faced in her decision to go under the knife. I’m also heartened that issues of racism and workplace discrimination are being brought to light. But we need to take this issue one step further. While everyone acknowledges the motivations that led Chen to undergo the surgery, what no one seems to be addressing is the enormous pressure young women face in meeting a certain standard of beauty.

Chen’s decision, along with the overwhelming public support, sends an ambivalent message to women grappling with their own physical identities and offers a troubling solution as to how to “fix” the problem in order to achieve success.

After hearing the remarks about her eyes, Chen admits she “started developing a complex. I got very insecure about this”. Over and over she watched video reels of herself, fixating on what she began to perceive as her glaring flaws.

All I could see is my eyes, and does [my boss] have a point. And all I’m doing is watching my eyes. Do I look bored or disinterested?

Chen’s words are unsettling at best; her increasing dissatisfaction with her appearance, coupled with her repetitive, obsessive language, sound like the makings of a body image disorder. Chen’s solution: electing to have the double eyelid surgery. Chen herself notes that after she had the procedure done, “the ball did roll for me”. (For what it’s worth, speculations abound that her eyes are not the only thing Chen’s had “fixed”.)

Carol D Gray, a clinical psychologist from Newton, MA who specializes in girls’ development, says we live in a society that “promotes a completely unrealistic standard of beauty which makes all women feel flawed, particularly girls and young women who are especially vulnerable to media images. This ultimately leads to 51% of Americans walking around feeling like there’s something wrong with them. The only sadder reality is that we’re also led to believe that if we just try hard enough we can fix what’s wrong.”

In a time where women already face enormous pressure to have – and achieve – it all (we are, after all, living in the age of Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer), Chen’s revelation adds to that yet one more expectation: that we are expected to “fix what’s wrong” and that fix might be one scalpel incision away.

Harriet Brown, associate professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communications and author of, most recently, Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia, has also spoken extensively on the subject of female body image.

I’m glad Julie Chen gave voice to the kind of pressure she faced to conform to the very narrow, and narrow-minded, cultural norms around her appearance. I do worry that her story will inadvertently reinforce the notion that women need to slice, dice, and diet themselves as close as possible to those norms if they want to succeed.

It is a worry that echoes my own. We take our cues from popular figures in media, especially those being celebrated for their actions and achievements. And yes: there is something laudable about Chen “coming clean.” But the conversation should not stop there. Before we echo Osborne’s cries of “Fabulous!”, we should look to deeper solutions beyond a trip to the plastic surgeon’s clinic. Chen’s next steps – as well as our own – should be to address this implicit message sent to young women: that their the physical shortcomings – perceived or otherwise – need only be “fixed” in order to achieve success.

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The seriousness of packaging supplies

There are various packaging supplies available in the market to meet the different packing demands that is unique to your business. Whether they are electrical goods, gifts, manufactured goods, foodstuffs, or any article for packing, all of these can be packed with the utilization of packaging products that preserve and protect those special items and help in their safe delivery. You should first speak to a company who specialises in office packaging.

Stretch films to ensure proper storage of food. Food stuffs will certainly and swiftly get damaged if they don't seem to be correctly kept; therefore , they have to be packed in an appropriate way with the use of the right packaging supplies, in particular if they are going to be distributed to another location. These packaging materials ensure that the food is restricted in exposure to heat, moisture, dust, microbes, , and other external aspects, thus preventing non-suitability for eating. Cantech Industries, Universal, and 3M are just among the many producers of high-quality packaging products in the industry.

Pack reasonably with the utilization of sealing tapes, and lessen the perils of delivery. Glass items, electronic materials, and delicate items should be delivered or conveyed with masses of care. They could get damaged speedily unless they are packed and fastened in the right way. If packed properly with the use of a durable cardboard and sealed with a strong sealing tape, you do not have to stress over the items safety.

A large amount of packing products can bear breakage, UV light, moisture,, so making sure the protection of the packed items. A properly packed item lessens the danger that\’s linked with incongruous packing and delivery.

Assorted packaging products are mandatory for recurring use, so it is best that you have them available in your office, and for you to get them at a discounted rate, it's possible to get in contact with wholesalers for fine quality packaging supplies.

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