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(AP) SAO PAULO, Brazil A woman was released from the hospital a day after she was shot in the head six times in an attack police blamed on her ex-husband, Brazilian media reported Saturday. Patricia Goncalves Pereira, a 21-year-old housewife, was shot Friday after an altercation with her ex-husband, who was upset because she refused to get back together with him, Globo TV reported. "I know this was a miracle," Pereira told the TV network. "Now I just want to extract the bullets and live my life." Doctors could not explain how Pereira survived the attack. The .32-caliber bullets didn't...

RIVERSIDE - Diesel for $1 a gallon. And not from oil. Instead, it would come from sewer sludge, wood, agricultural waste, plain old trash or even plastics. That's the promise of a new process unveiled Thursday at UC Riverside by researchers and a small company that will pay $15 million for a pilot plant to be built in the next two years. "One of the advantages of this is we will reduce the need for imported oil," said Joseph Norbeck, a professor of engineering at UC Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering-Center for Environmental Research and Technology, also known as CE-CERT....

Issaquah, WA - - August 1, 2006 - - Green Power, Inc., a Washington based company, thrilled spectators at their demonstration on Wednesday, July 26. Green Power, Inc. demonstrated their new technology of turning everyday landfill waste into diesel fuel, in a process called Catalytic Depolymerization. “We really can convert regular household waste, medical waste, anything that is not radioactive, metal, glass or porcelain, into diesel fuel,” said Michael Spitzauer, CEO of Green Power, Inc. The demonstration took place in Fife, Washington and was witnessed by approximately 200 onlookers, including various government officials, oil refinery, corporate representatives and media. Visitors...

Issaquah, WA - - August 2, 2006 - - Green Power, Inc., a Washington based company, thrilled spectators at their demonstration on Wednesday, July 26. Green Power, Inc. demonstrated their new technology of turning everyday landfill waste into diesel fuel, in a process called Catalytic Depolymerization. “We really can convert regular household waste, medical waste, anything that is not radioactive, metal, glass or porcelain, into diesel fuel,” said Michael Spitzauer, CEO of Green Power, Inc. The demonstration took place in Fife, Washington and was witnessed by approximately 200 onlookers, including various government officials, oil refinery, corporate representatives and media. Visitors...

I was just having a discussion with a co-worker who told me that he thought that Bill Clinton was a good president. I pointed out that selling military technology to the Chinese did not a good president make. He, of course, asked for proof of this. I've been searching the internet and have come up with some stuff, but mostly I'm finding editorials that don't hold much weight as proof. I know that there are some FReepers out there that have this information stockpiled. If someone would supply me with this information or links to where it can be found...

CINCINNATI The mummified body of a woman who didn't want to be buried was found in a chair in front of her television set 2 1/2 years after her death, authorities said. Johannas Pope had told her live-in caregiver that she didn't want to be buried and planned on returning after she died, Hamilton County Coroner O'Dell Owens said Monday. Pope died in August 2003 at age 61. Her body was found last week in the upstairs of her home on a quiet street. Some family members continued to live downstairs, authorities said. No one answered the doorbell at Pope's...

A woman died in a Calcutta hospital after ants ate one of her eyes as she was recovering from a cornea operation, media reports said Tuesday. Gauri Chakraborty, 55, had complained of terrible pain after the operation at a state-run hospital, but a nurse told her it was normal and left her unattended, her son Soumen told the Press Trust of India news agency. He said that when her bandage was removed the next day they found big black ants nibbling at her eye, PTI reported. "She died a ghastly death. We don't even know the reason of her death,"...

Thermal depolymerization The loading station of the pilot plant in Carthage, Missouri Thermal depolymerization (TDP) is a process for the reduction of complex organic materials (usually waste products of various sorts, often known as biomass) into light crude oil. It mimics the natural geological processes thought to be involved in the production of fossil fuels. Under pressure and heat, long chain polymers of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon decompose into short-chain petroleum hydrocarbons with a maximum length of around 18 carbons. The process has been referred to with various names, including thermal conversion process (TCP). Thermo chemical conversion (TCC) is a...

Instead of keeping countless cards and pieces of information that verify your identification, soon there may be only one thing you need: yourself. As identity theft has become the bane of consumers everywhere, technologies aimed at making transactions more secure are gaining ground. Such "biometric technologies" include iris scans, as well as those for fingerprints, palm, skin, voice and face patterns. "In everyday life, the use of biometrics has been growing," said Philip Youn, a consultant at International Biometric Group. The underlying strength of biometrics is that it uses patterns that are unique to each individual. Your fingerprints belong to...

I'm trying to fix my dads computer and I have run out of ideas. The problem is that he cannot access secure websites. He is using Juno dial-up access on Windows 2000 Pro. The browser displays the "Page cannot be displayed" error. The problem seems to have started when he ran Ad-Aware to remove a bunch of spyware that he had aquired.

<p>A Texas company claims to have invented a kind of Orgasmatron for women -- an electrical stimulation device that takes women to a pre-orgasmic state.</p> <p>Stimulation Systems' Slightest Touch is a $200 battery-powered device that electrically stimulates sexual nerve pathways in a woman's pelvis.</p>

RIVERDALE, Utah (AP) -- Though many people haven't even seen the new $20 bills yet, two men have been arrested in an alleged scheme to counterfeit the new notes. The men were charged Thursday with possessing forgery-writing equipment. Federal charges may be filed. Dennis Lane, 45, and Randy Goodman, 50, were arrested Tuesday after trying to get a room at the Red Roof Inn on Monday with allegedly counterfeit money. The clerk refused the bills and the men paid with legitimate money. Riverdale police Lt. Paige Ansley said officers were called, but police were unable to find the men. However,...

The Proper Role of Government by The Honorable Ezra Taft Benson Former Secretary of Agriculture [The Eisenhower Administration - ed.] Published in 1968 Men in the public spotlight constantly are asked to express an opinion on a myriad of government proposals and projects. "What do you think of TVA?" "What is your opinion of Medicare?" How do you feel about Urban Renewal?" The list is endless. All too often, answers to these questions seem to be based, not upon any solid principle, but upon the popularity of the specific government program in question. Seldom are men willing to oppose a...

Do Americans Really Have the Stomach for Freedom? Devvy KiddSeptember 1, 2002            "As long as a hundred of us remain alive we will never be subject to tyrannical dominion            because it is not for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but for freedom alone which            no worthy man loses except with his life."                                                                                from The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320Last week I received a phone call from a nice lady at the NRA who wanted a special gift of $25.00 to fight yet another anti-American, anti-Second Amendment bill in the counterfeit U.S. Senate. This lady went on to tell...

            SIGN TROOPS ON THE BORDER PETITIONTom Tancredo (R-CO) is working very hard to stop the invasion by illegals coming across our borders from Mexico. He has more than 10,000 signatures on his petition to demand Bush puts troops on the border. He says he needs one million!I SIGNED, HAVE YOU?LOG ON AND SIGN UP NOWhttp://www.house.gov/tancredo/Immigration/immig_petition.htmI thank Glen Spencer for passing this along to me. I hope you will sign the electronic petition and send it to everyone on your list. Ask them to do the same. We need tens of millions of signatures so the message is real...

  Congress Begins to Respond:                                  Early Returns Deserve Censure   What Must a Free People Do?Plan For a "Summer of Discontent"The Peoples’ 535 representatives in Washington DC have begun to respond to the constituent demand letters they received last week in conjunction with the hand delivery of the Truth-in-Taxation Hearing record to every member of Congress.Their responses form an obnoxious and objectionable pattern: Staff members, rather than representatives, are responding Staff members are not showing the letters to congressmen The replies are non-responsive and plainly insulting Stock "off-the-shelf" replies have nothing to do with our charges A giant "brush...

FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED JAN. 27, 2002 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz An old man with a curious little metal cross I see where the crack airport security teams who let 19 out of 19 terrorists slip through their net last Sept. 11 have been saving the republic from terror, again. The Washington Times reported last week that airline security personnel at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport stopped a suspicious looking gentleman as he tried to board an America West plane Jan. 11 on his way to attend a meeting of the National Rifle Association in Arlington,...

FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED MARCH 7, 2002 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz And that ain't peanuts Nearly a century ago, something good started to happen to Americans who consume peanuts -- not just kids with sandwiches in their lunchbox and old men in rocking chairs, mind you, but also tens of thousands of hard-working Americans who labor in factories making candy, and peanut butter, and all kinds of products processed in peanut oil. Technology and the spread of the agricultural revolution -- increased harvests due to pesticides and fertilizer and better farming methods -- started to reduce...

FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA EDITORS: A SHORTER VERSION, at 900 WORDS, ALSO MOVES FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED MARCH 3, 2002 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Line up, boys, and roll up your sleeves ... Did anyone else read to the bottom of Wednesday's front page story on the Florida firm that seeks FDA approval to start embedding personal ID chips under our skin? The sales pitch of Applied Digital Solutions is based on convenience and "improved security," of course. Just allow them to scan the little subcutaneous chip -- smaller than a grain of rice -- and it'll be much easier...

&nbsp; OPENING REMARKS by Bob Schulz CITIZENS’ TRUTH-IN-TAXATION HEARING Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Citizens’ Truth-in-Taxation Hearing. On behalf of myself and the We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education, I extend a very heartfelt welcome to all of you in our audience today, to the thousands of people who are watching theses proceedings via our live web cast and to the countless thousands who will later be watching via digital and taped recordings of the hearing. We are happy to sponsor this most extraordinary educational event. WELCOME ALL. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ...