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KELSEYVILLE — an estimated 9,000 people made their way to Main Street for the 2011 Kelseyville Pear Festival Saturday.

The festival, in its 19th year, took place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and featured a parade, quilt show, arts and crafts exhibits, local music, many vendor booths and an antique engine and tractor exhibit. Marilyn Holdenried, chairwoman of the Pear Festival, said the festival “celebrates the agricultural heritage of our community.”

The event kicked off with a parade at 9:30 a.m. Holdenried said the parade had more entrants than ever before, with a total of 91. Some of the highlights of the parade were numerous antique tractors and antique cars, including a fleet of Amphicars, which are cars that can be operated as boats in bodies of water. Cheerleaders from Kelseyville High School (KHS) and the Kelseyville Youth Football League gave performances during the parade.

According to Judge Andy Dobusch, Shadow Oaks Ranch won the parade’s best float contest with their “Bartletts goes to Pearis’” float. second place went to Jellystone RV Park and Camp resort of Cobb Mountain, with costumed Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo Bear, Cindy Bear and Ranger Smith waving to the crowd.

Third place went to Jim Block Farms for their “Goldilocks and the three Pears” float, which was driven by Dan Kane. Honorable mention went to Young’s Automotive for its 1930 Model a four-door, “used for transporting illegal pearshine’ and a part-time getaway car,” according to their parade entry form. All winners were given ribbons and first place was awarded to the winning poster design for the festival.

The pear dessert contest was won by Rebecca Molloy for her golden pear cake pops, according to pear festival team member Janice Stokes. second place went to Marge Malley for her pear dumplings. Third place was awarded to Sandy Cline for her perfect pear surprise. Fourth place was given to JoAnn Herring for her pear upside down cake.

Stokes said the pear dessert contest winners were awarded gift certificates to Kelseyville restaurants. first place won a $150 gift certificate to the saw Shop Gallery Bistro, second place was awarded a $100 gift certificate to Lyndall’s Sports Stop, third place grabbed a $75 certificate to Studebaker’s Coffee House and Deli and fourth was given a $25 certificate to Lulu’s Ice Cream and Dessert Parlor.

Holdenried said some new events were added this year, including a children’s theater. She said the theater stage showcased dancers from Antoinette Goetz’s School of Dance in Lakeport as well as local talents, musicians and the KHS cheerleaders.

The festival also partnered with the big Read, an educational program ran through the County Office of Education. The festival featured numerous events to do with the big Read, highlighted by a radio performance of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” by members of the Clear Lake High School Black Box Players.

Approximately 105 different vendors were present at the festival, Holdenried said. Attendants perused all different types of knick-knacks, eateries, clothing booths and, of course, pear-related items, such as “pearitas,” or pear margaritas.

Nine different musical acts performed throughout the day, including the Gill Brothers and Friends at the Children’s Theater and Solid Air on the Kelsey Creek Stage. Holdenried said she was “proud of the variety of entertainment as well as the quality of vendor booths.”

She said more than 1,000 people visited the Quilt show throughout the day, including folks from as far away as new York, Kentucky and Oklahoma.

The Pear Pavilion featured historical exhibits, such as a history of settlement around Mount Konocti that included many historical artifacts and a pear-farming historical exhibit. Many historical photos were on display for people to view.

Holdenried said the festival had no major incidents or problems and that it went over “great.” She said the festival would not be possible without her co-chairwoman, Sharron Zoller, and the all-volunteer team that worked all year on the event. She said the festival was a great way to “find the magic of a small town.”

Kevin N. Hume can be reached at kevin.n.hume@gmail.com or call directly 263-5636 ext. 14.

The two major factors in the collapse itself were the fires and the lack of fire proofing around the trusses and some columns. With fire proofing, the steel was rated for 2 hours of continuous fire. without it, that time is cut dramatically.

Construction.com

The below test results are used by conspiracy theorists to suggest the collapse couldn't have happened because, if you note the test under "Failure to support load" there are three asterisks (***) which indicates that failure did not occur. What they don't stress is the fact that all four tests have fire proofing on the trusses. Note the fire rating with 1/2 inch spray on fire proofing is 45 minutes. Some trusses and columns in the towers impact zone had none.

nist.gov/public_affairs/facts…

An incredibly detailed account of the fires can be found here

wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-5A_chap_… (56 megs)

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Update:

One of the BIG lies in the "truth" movement is that UL certifies steel. An ex-employee named Kevin Ryan, who worked as a water tester at UL, said "The buildings should have easily withstood the thermal stress caused by pools of burning jet fuel." he says he knows this because UL certified steel components of the World Trade Center and that someone from the company who was connected with the UL testing told him this fact.

Now for some facts the "truth" movement doesn't tell you.

UL doesn't certify steel components like a steel truss or column. they certify assemblies. that means they certified the total assembly, all put together. they also didn't replicate the impact levels. they replicated a floor system with fireproofing as it would have been before the impact. they also tested it with various fireproofing thicknesses. (See above UL test results) The test trusses were physically undamaged and had intact fireproofing for the purpose of standard rating. What this means is that mr. Ryan doesn't even know what his former employer does, much less what it did during the World Trade Center investigation. Maybe that's why they fired him…

The other lie in the "truth" movement is the characterization of what the NIST said was the cause of the collapse.

1) The NIST NEVER said burning jet fuel was the cause of the collapse

2) If the assembly stayed together, it only SUPPORTS the NIST hypothesis that the trusses pulled the columns in.

3) The UL test caused the test trusses to sag even with fireproofing

NIST Tests Provide fire Resistance Data on World Trade Center Floor Systems

National Institute of Standards & Technology

Aug 27, 2004 10:14 AM

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology today reported that results from a series of four fire resistance tests conducted this month on composite concrete-steel trussed floor systems typical of those used in the World Trade Center towers showed that the test structures were able to withstand standard fire conditions for between one and two hours. The tests are part of NIST’s building and fire safety investigation of the WTC disaster on Sept. 11, 2001.
The 1968 new York City building code – the code that the towers were intended but not required to meet when they were built – required a two-hour fire rating for the floor system.

Shyam Sunder, lead investigator of the NIST WTC investigation, explained that the four laboratory tests provide only a means for evaluating the relative fire resistance rating of the floor systems under standard fire conditions and according to accepted test procedures. Sunder cautioned, “These tests alone cannot be used to determine the actual performance of the floor systems in the collapse of the WTC towers. However, they are already providing valuable insight into the role that the floors may have played in causing the inward bowing of the perimeter columns minutes before both buildings collapsed.”

“The fire conditions in the towers on 9-11 were far more extreme than those to which floor systems in standard U.S. fire rating tests are subjected,” Sunder said to a group that gathered to watch yesterday’s final test at Underwriters Laboratories (UL) in Northbrook, Ill. “Our investigation’s final assessment of how the floor system performed in the WTC fires also must consider factors such as the combustible fuel load of the hijacked jets, the extent and number of floors involved, the rate of the fire spread across and between floors, ventilation conditions, and the impact of the aircraft-damaged towers’ ability to resist the fire,” Sunder said.

All four WTC floor system fire tests used the standard procedure known as ASTM E119 for rating the fire resistance of a building structural unit such as a floor system, column or beam under prescribed conditions. The tests were conducted as part of a NIST contract at two separate UL fire test laboratories to take advantage of the different capabilities available at these facilities.

The first two tests, conducted earlier this month at the UL facility in Toronto, Canada, looked at the fire performance of 11-meter (35-foot) floor systems coated with a near-uniform 19-millimeter-thick (0.75-inch) layer of fireproofing material. this is representative of the span size and as-applied average fireproofing thickness of the floor systems in the WTC towers.

firechief.com/news/nist-tests-wtc…

Kevin Ryan is the editor of the "scholars" Journal of 911 Studies and one of the "peers" who review their so called "peer" reviewed papers.

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Since we are on the subject of fire proofing, let me touch on something which keeps being repeated by the so called "scholars". they keep suggesting that lease owner Larry Silverstein had a very good reason to blow up the towers.

Fetzer: my impression has been that there were a couple of problems with the towers and it may have been that they were chronic problems. one of course was that it was laden with asbestos and that any proposal to remove that asbestos which was used as a coating on the steel as I understand it would have been a gargantuan task at incredible expense. can anyone imagine for example of constructing scaffolding around a 110 story building? and second of all that there were difficulties with occupancy that Larry Silverstein wasn’t getting a full return on his investment from the ordinary use of the buildings, because a tremendous large numbers of offices were unoccupied. Whole floors and sections of the buildings.

The fact is that asbestos in the towers was limited to floors only up to the 38th floor of WTC 1 and it was encapsulated. there was no asbestos in WTC2 .

"several materials were considered for the sprayed thermal insulation. The exterior columns required insulation not only for fire protection but also to control column temperatures under service conditions. Alcoa recommended for the exterior columns the use of a sprayed material produced by U.S. Mineral Products, co. known as BLAZE-SHIELD Type D. The same material was eventually selected for the floor trusses and core beams and columns. this product, however, contained asbestos fibers. On April 13, 1970, new York City issued restrictions on the application of sprayed thermal insulation containing asbestos. The use of BLAZE-SHIELD Type D was discontinued in 1970 at the 38th floor of WTC 1. The asbestos-containing material was subsequently encapsulated with a sprayed material that provided a hard coating. a green dye was added to the encapsulating material so that the asbestos containing SFRM could be identified. Thermal protection of the remaining floors of WTC 1 and all of WTC 2 was carried out using BLAZE-SHIELD Type DC/F, a product that contained mineral wool (glassy fibers) in place of the crystalline asbestos fibers. On the basis of tests, it was reported that the thermal properties of BLAZE-SHIELD Type DC/F were equal to or "slightly better" than those of BLAZE-SHIELD Type D"

NIST NCSTAR 1-6A

So much for asbestos, now what about the occupancy…

May 31, 1998
As the market for office space in midtown has tightened and rental rates increased, tenants have been looking to downtown as a cheaper alternative. over the last year, those seeking large blocks of space have been finding them at the trade center, which had many vacancies as a result of the 1993 terrorist bombing and the shrinkage of the financial industry in the early part of the decade.

''in January 1997 we had about an 80 percent occupancy rate,'' said Cherrie Nanninga, director of real estate for the Port Authority of new York and new Jersey, which owns the complex. Twenty percent of 10.5 million square feet of space is 2.1 million, which would be a substantial building by itself.

But as a result of the last year's work, Ms. Nanninga, said the complex is over 90 percent occupied and expects to it reach the 95 percent mark by the end of the year. that, she said, would be about as full as the center is likely to get, since there is almost always someone moving in or out. ''Ninety-seven percent occupancy would be full,'' said Ms. Nanninga, whose name is pronounced NAN-in-gay.

Downtown; At the World Trade Center, things Are Looking Up

February 12, 2001

As Real Estate Director, a position mrs. Nanninga has held since 1996, the occupancy rate at the trade center has risen from 78 percent to a healthy 98 percent, retail soared in the trade center's mall, and available office space in the Newark Legal Center has nearly been filled.

Today, only about 250,000 of the 10.4 million square feet of office space in the trade center remains vacant. and the legal center has an occupancy rate of over 99 percent.

panynj.gov/AboutthePortAuthor…
PressRelease/index.php?id=61

So much for the "difficulties with occupancy".

911myths.com/html/windfall.ht…

This is yet another example of what the "scholars" want to spend millions investigating. I don't want my child paying one cent just because these "scholars" do sloppy research or have hidden political agendas. Because with the 8.4 trillion national debt, the millions they want spent will be paid by our children. It's cheaper to just send me a thank you at debunk911@hotmail.com.

One more thing, if making money off the murder of 3000 people mean you committed the murder, does that also mean losing money off the murder of 3000 people mean you're innocent?

When those buildings were built, the biggest airplane was probly a 727 maybe 737. The fire proffing was designed to withstand that much damage in the event of one hitting them. 757/767 hit the World Trade Centers and those were much bigger than the ones intended in the event of an accident. Its amazing that the building actually lasted as long as they did.

ya put those liberals down!!

More than 1,600 healthcare technology management professionals flocked to San Antonio, TX, last weekend to network, learn and shop the latest technology at AAMI’s 2011 Conference & Expo. One of those attendees was Rob Bundick, Manager Biomedical Engineering, ProHealth Care, Waukesha, WI. Rob had the good fortune — and ‘smarts’ — to visit DOTmed’s booth and drop off his business card. because at the end of AAMI 2011 his name was drawn at random from the more than 450 names entered into DOTmed’s “Dynamite Day/Night Double Header Gift Card” Giveaway. why the long name? well, the winner gets a $100 gift card to The Home Depot and a $100 gift card to Victoria’s Secret…so you can fill in your own ___ blank! Story Continues below Advertisement “Biomedical engineers work hard, and we wanted to run a raffle where people could have some fun just thinking about winning the prize,” said Phil Jacobus, President of DOTmed, “and judging from the traffic we saw at our booth, our mission was accomplished.” But the real draw was AAMI 2011 itself, where the buzz was about the increasing complexity and responsibility that the field of clinical engineering is seeing — a lot of it driven by bottom-line demands, and the impending 2014 EHR mandate. “I got the sense that a lot of people were looking for information and ideas about ways to help them be more efficient, more productive,” said Colm Ford, one of DOTmed’s Online Auction Specialists. “At other shows you see people shopping for equipment and kicking tires, at AAMI, there was a lot of that, but also a lot of ‘what will this equipment do to help me handle everything on my plate, and help me do my job,’” Ford added. For DOTmed, AAMI is a unique event because so many of the exhibitors are also regular DOTmed users. “We pretty much know somebody in every other booth,” said David Blumenthal, DOTmed Sales Director, “and a lot of companies advertise in our Buyer’s Guide and/or DOTmed Business News magazine and/or online on DOTmed.” One of the new products from DOTmed that drew a great deal interest was the online Virtual Trade show. “Selling our Virtual Trade show at a trade show like this is an interesting proposition,” said Blumenthal, “because let’s face it, exhibiting at any show isn’t cheap. When we show people that they can have a VTS booth — which is open 24/7/365 — for about what it costs to send one person to an event like AAMI, we get their attention.” DOTmed was one of the company’s that took advantage of the early bird sign-up for AAMI 2012, so you can count on seeing the DOTmed Trade show Team in Charolette, NC, June 2-4, next year!

Give and You Shall Receive

The entire world is in an economic recession, and each country has felt the devastating effects. Here in America, money has become tighter, jobs fewer, and food prices have gone up considerably. However, as citizens of an astoundingly wealthy, industrialized nation, if we believe that our current situation is disappointingly inopportune, then we would be greatly mistaken. not only would we be mistaken, we would also be extremely foolish to lament over our petty woes when millions of people in Africa and Asia live–and often die– in a state of perpetual poverty, under deplorable conditions. some countries are stupendously rich and others horrendously poor.. despite this, hope still remains, and it is for that very reason that wealthy, industrialized nations should adopt a policy in which they use a variety of methods to share their wealth with the undeveloped world, a policy from which there could be many beneficiaries.

According to the MilleniumProject commissioned by the United Nations, four billion people live in poverty. Malaria and pneumonia, two diseases that are widely eradicated and completely preventable, seem to travel with the wind in places like Africa and Asia, killing millions each year. moreover, (according to the UN) eight hundred million people go to bed hungry every night, unsure as to whether they will live to see another sunrise, but knowing that if they do, there still will not be any food. Amid all of this suffering, those who are fortunate enough to pick up a spoon at dinnertime should not find it hard to reach within their hearts to help those in dire need. by trading with those countries who have this dire need, we wealthy nations can jumpstart foreign economies, as well as give food, medicine, and peace of mind to those who need it most.

It is said that if one gives, then he or she receives. Similarly, if a government is generous and munificent, it receives things in return. Many developing countries show economic promise, and are looking like eligible to be future trade partners that can provide bona fide investment opportunities. for example, if the United States were to invest in Africa, a continent which most unknowingly consider an investment wasteland, the paybacks could be gargantuan. in reality, Africa is an investment wasteland no longer. in fact, the AT Kearney 2007 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index ranks fifteen emerging markets in Africa among the top twenty-five investment market destinations in the world. It is within those emerging markets where there is money to be made; between 1990 and 2005 private capital flows in ninety-four emerging markets rose from twenty five to three hundred billion dollars. However, careful planning is required to make certain that capital is not intercepted by corrupt heads of state and the like. Trade and aid should be reserved for those governments that exhibit democratic behavior. besides facilitating money flow, sharing wealth would assist America in restoring its global reputation, and simultaneously give us allies for the future. “America cannot meet the threats of this century alone, and the world cannot meet them without America. we can neither retreat from the world nor try to bully it into submission. we must lead the world, by deed and by example,” says President Barack Obama. Therefore, we should reach out to the developing world now, so that in the future, complex issues, such as climate change, can be easily addressed.

Giving financial aid should not only be viewed as humanitarianism, but also as a long-overdue act of penance for Imperialism. during the Age of Imperialism Western nations bombarded vulnerable nations with military might and injected them with their cultural needle. by doing so, the imperialistic nations, many of which remain world powers, put the native peoples under oppressive conditions and exploited their lands for natural resources. Even today, in this first decade of the twenty-first century, some African countries have barely begun to throw off the shackles that Imperialism placed on them and their economies. for example, in 1913 England possessed colonies such as modern-day South Africa, Egypt, Sudan, and Nigeria. Today, according to a 2008 list compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency, England’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is two trillion seven hundred and eighty seven billion dollars, while the average GDP of its former colonies listed above is a mere seven percent of that. still, there are those who would scoff at these numbers, and reason that they are a fateful result of the inability of dysfunctional governments to provide for their citizens. It would not hurt those who hold this belief take a look at Walter Rodney’s 1973 novel how Europe Underdeveloped Africa, in which he states,

“ When two societies of different sorts come into prolonged and effective contact, the rate and character of change taking place in both is serious

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I need to order some banners and I have a choice between 46# paper laminated, vinyl, and synthetic fiber. Which one looks best and will stay looking nice? Any help is appreciated.